30/08/2010 | 1376 viewsMy wife has a Trojan! A couple of months ago my wife, who works for a small start-up, got a brand new laptop for remote access. A small, white thing that looked pretty but, I suspected, came with little security, given that whenever I shoulder-surfed her I saw warnings like “no anti-virus installed”.
So when...
Tags: Security, Online bankingYou spend all year long working, and in summer time you deserve some R&R.
Option 1: look after holiday packages. Fly charter, book a reasonably priced hotel, and rent a compact car to do some sightseeing.
Option 2: search for the most expensive destination you can find. Fly first class, book a...
Tags: Security, Online bankingWest Bromwich is a 140,000 sized town about half way between London and Liverpool. It is the largest town in the United Kingdom without its own Royal Mail postcode. It does have a decent football club, though, and the Latin motto on the town's coat of arms translates as "Work Conquers All".
It also...
Tags: Security, Online bankingIt’s now summer on Triton.
Don’t pack your holiday gear though; the average temperature on Neptune’s icy moon, which is about 30 times further from the sun than Earth, is -235 Celsius (-391 Fahrenheit). And the atmosphere isn’t too friendly: Methane and Carbon Monoxide. Pers...
Tags: Security, Online banking20/07/2010 | 1489 viewsSocial Trojaning I went to my favourite fraud underground forum, bought my favourite Trojan kit (I like Zeus), and then I looked through the Build-a-Trojan checkbox list to see what the next step is.
Find hosting.
Hosting. Yeah, I knew this one was coming. Trojans are not like self replicating viruses: you can&rsq...
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