Author Archives: TonyBrown

Messagelabs have taken apart spam messages that were sent through their email systems and have provided valuable research into where the messages originated. 28.2% of the spam originated in China, closely followed by Romania on 21.1% ? then the US … Continue reading

A new playstation 2 emulator package that has appeared on all the major torrent sites has the CodecPack-2GCash-Gen trojan inside. Continue reading

A vulnerability has been uncovered in the way some sites have implemented banner click counters on their flash (SWF) files. A security?consultant called MustLive said that these files contain actionscript (flash’s internal scripting language) that counts the number of banner … Continue reading

The recently exploit that targetted the IIS FTP service on Windows 2000 has now been seen to crash windows 2003 servers even using the anonymous account – This means that the number of possible exploitable servers has increased dramatically. The … Continue reading

All systems engineers and IT managers that have any responsibilty in their companys security systems should keep themselves updated with the latest exploits and techniques used by hackers. I’m listing below the sites that I use and keep an eye … Continue reading