Anti-Forensic Techniques Used By Jihadist Web Sites

Hello Everybody !

Hope you all are doing good and are in the best of your health..

I guess many of you might be excited after reading the subject of this post. Yes ! Today I’m going to discuss the various anti-forensic methods used by Jihadis to conceal their presence over the Internet.

The Internet, as we all know is a very wast field of information sharing and communication. And there are various ways by which one can be in contact with other person across the globe and this happens almost instantly. This saves time, money and effort that would otherwise be very high ! These all are the advantages of Internet.

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Is your wireless network mapped?

Well if you think, you stay a long way away from crowded place and might not be targeted by cruel outside wireless hackers, then I guess you may be wrong. Even if your network is detected by a single war-driver, you may be mapped on wigle and be known worldwide.

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wiget.net

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Beer can & scissors for lock picking

Eric Michaud, a prominent lock-picking hobbyist can pick any lock in just a few minutes by using just an empty beer can and a pair of scissors. He cuts the top and bottom off the can in such a way that a wavy M-shape THING is carved out from it. He then folds them again and again till it can be inserted between the lock and the shackle. Twist it and Boom!!! The lock’s open.

Eric is also a co-founder of The Open Organization of Lockpickers US (TOOOL). Sounds scary. Man, I have a dump nearby my home wherein you can get lots of such empty beer cans. I need to put in some hi-tech infra-red sensors all-around my house in addition to the heavy locks. :P

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Encrypted Voice … !!!

Hey There !

Welcome back to read my post. Today I was trying to read a mail that one of my friends had sent me yesterday. The email was encrypted with a very well known encryption. — PGP. Those who know this terminology, are well aware of what PGP is. However, let me explain in brief to those who are unaware of PGP. PGP or Pretty Good Privacy, is an encryption standard that is widely used for encrypting your emails. Such that only the sender and receiver knows the content inside the mail. Even if the mail is sniffed on its way from source to destination, its contents could not be read.

Thanks to the technology of asymmetric cryptography, where a message is encrypted with receiver’s public key, sent to the destination, and the receiver then decrypts it with his private key. This, and many more ways exists to encrypt the text messages across Internet.

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Mario Bro is back with a shake!!!

Mario bro – the most favorite games of all times is back with a BANG!!! Cool trailers. But what I liked most is their cool advertisement on youtube. The way the whole page is designed is really good. Hope the game too meets up the expections like its ancestors. Nice things are back for game-lovers like me!!! :)

Mario Bro on You Tube

US – the no.1 cyber attacker

According to study conducted by Secure World, US ranks first as the cyber attacker. Maximum attacks are seen to be from US. However China which we would have thought to be no.1 dropped down at second position. These statistic figures obtained by Secure World were collected from the number of attacks that took place on all of their clients. They even claim that US is behind the massive internet attacks on Georgia.

Well Is US really the culprit or is US hosting maximum number of proxy servers?

Alleged hacker pleads guilty in TJX case

As part of a plea-bargaining arrangement, Christopher Scott, 25, of Miami, has admitted to computer hacking, access device fraud and identity theft, according to the Associated Press. He could face a sentence of up to 22 years in jail and a fine of up to $1m (£538,000).

The plea comes almost two weeks after Damon Patrick Toey pleaded guilty to his role. The 11 defendants were formally charged last month. Three are from the US, one from Estonia, three from the Ukraine, two from China, and one from Belarus. Another man involved used an alias and his whereabouts are unknown.

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Is Matrix Real ???

Hello Everybody !

As I had promised in my previous post, I’m going to discuss about the Red and Blue pill concepts. Those who have seen the movie Matrix would be quite familiar with these terms ! However to give a brief background let me quote a few famous lines from the movie.

Morpheus describes the effects of the two pills to Neo

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Firefox 3.0.2 released

Good news for FF fans, new version 3.0.2 has been released for download. Following issues have been adressed in newer version:

MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities Moderate
MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution Moderate
MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) Critical
MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution Critical
MFSA 2008-40 Forced mouse drag Low

Jhoomla exploit in wild…

Last month, we at our client side were busy fighting phishing attacks. In 30 days we had around 25 phishing attacks. These phishing sites were all hosted on compromised sites with Jhoomla applcation hosted on it. So we had 25 compromised Jhoomla sites. However we were not able to figure out the exploit being used but it surely would be RFI or Remote code execution attack vector being used. So beware you all Jhoomla application users, dont forget to keep monitoring your web-logs frequently. Also check the server files if any suspicious file is lying around. It may be php shell file. Also keep Jhoomla up-to-date.