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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 288 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: automated crack for windows live captcha goes wild comments Discuss  
Spammers's Holy GrailSpammers are using a sophisticated piece of software that can create thousands of Windows Live email addresses by cracking the protections designed to prevent the large-scale creation of fraudulent accounts.… read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.uninformed.org | Tags: a catalog of local windows kernelmode backdoor techniques comments Discuss  
This paper presents a detailed catalog of techniques that can be used to create local kernel-mode backdoors on Windows. These techniques include function trampolines, descriptor table hooks, model-specific register hooks, page table modifications, as well as others that have not previously been described. The majority of these techniques have been publicly known far in advance of this paper. However, at the time of this writing, there appears to be no detailed single point of reference for many of them. read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.uninformed.org | Tags: exploiting wireless driver vulnerabilities on windows comments Discuss  
This paper describes the process of identifying and exploiting 802.11 wireless device driver vulnerabilities on Windows. This process is described in terms of two steps: pre-exploitation and exploitation. read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: improving automated analysis of windows x binaries comments Discuss  
As Windows x64 becomes a more prominent platform, it will become necessary to develop techniques that improve the binary analysis process. In particular, automated techniques that can ... read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: exploiting the otherwise nonexploitable on windows comments Discuss  
This paper describes a technique that can be applied in certain situations to gain arbitrary code execution through software bugs that would not otherwise be exploitable, such ... read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: bypassing patchguard on windows x comments Discuss  
The version of the Windows kernel that runs on the x64 platform has introduced a new feature, nicknamed PatchGuard, that is intended to prevent both malicious software and third-party vendors ... read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: windows kernelmode payload fundamentals comments Discuss  
This paper discusses the theoretical and practical implementations of kernel-mode payloads on Windows. At the time of this writing, kernel-mode research is generally regarded as the ... read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: bypassing windows hardwareenforced dep comments Discuss  
This paper describes a technique that can be used to bypass Windows hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP) on default installations of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1. This technique makes it possible to execute ... read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://uninformed.org | Tags: postexploitation on windows using activex controls comments Discuss  
When exploiting software vulnerabilities it is sometimes impossible to build direct communication channels between a target machine and an attacker's machine due to restrictive outbound ... read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: streamlined anticaptcha operations by spammers on microsoft windows live mail comments Discuss  
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that Windows Live Mail accounts have been targeted in recent spammer tactics. In these recent attacks, spammers have managed to create bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Live Mail accounts that could be used for a wide range of subsequent attacks. Windows Live Mail is a part of the Microsoft Windows Live portfolio of services. It is a free webmail service by Microsoft. It was first announced on November 1, 2005 as an read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: streamlined anticaptcha operations by spammers on microsoft windows live mail comments Discuss  
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that Windows Live Mail accounts have been targeted in recent spammer tactics. In these recent attacks, spammers have managed to create bots that are capable of signing up and creating random Live Mail accounts that could be used for a wide range of subsequent attacks. Windows Live Mail is a part of the Microsoft Windows Live portfolio of services. It is a free webmail service by Microsoft. It was first announced on November 1, 2005 as an read more »
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