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October 27, 2004
The funny spam of the day
Posted by Costin Raiu at 12:10 PM
October 26, 2004
Not just a facelift
The Viruslist.com, a complex security resource covering viruses, hackers and spam has gotten a new facelift today and not just that. The new site has a couple of new articles, between them some signed by yours truly and it even contains a weblog where Eugene Kaspersky himself will be posting from time to time. (or so we hope :) Take a look:
Posted by Costin Raiu at 9:10 PM
Spam: leave it to the sender
You know the feeling: wake up one morning with one great ideea in mind and rush to the computer. If you are a developer, you pop up your favourite text (or hex) editor and start coding. Perl, Python, AWK, asm, you name it. Or, if you are not blessed with the c0d1ng skillz, you can write about the ideea. Such as the following:
In short, the ideea is to replace e-mails with small (even fixed sized) notifications. Then, let the recipient fetch the message if he seems to like the sender. In theory, this sounds nice. Reduce the traffic, ban the offending senders on a mass level, basically, kill spam. On the other side, it has some drawbacks. Instead of finding 100 spam e-mails each morning, you'll find 100 spam notifications. To fetch the e-mails you like you need to do twice the work. Bye-bye privacy too, the sender will know when you go for his message. And for big e-mails, you need to wait... Not to mention that you need a completely new communication protocol to support it. Which if properly implemented, can kill spam anyway. Oh well.
Posted by Costin Raiu at 12:10 PM
October 25, 2004
Congrats!
Congratulations to one:
Serban Gh. administrator F* Romania www.fast.ro e-mail: sasa@sto*.ro
...for masterfully hacking this weblog through an exploit in Wordpress. You are the man, Serban!
Posted by Costin Raiu at 1:10 PM
October 13, 2004
Back for bad
After co-publishing the source of the first WinCE virus side by side with its author - "Ratter" from the virus writing group 29A, (for which he was well paid, some say) the geniuses from Airscanner are back for more. In their latest production entitled "Reverse-Engineering the First Pocket PC Trojan" they publish the complete dissasembly of the first WinCE trojan Brador, again with kind support from the virus writing star "Ratter".
The following two excerpts are worth noting:
"...Brador was written by a different author, from Russia, who reportedly released it to only a select few 'big' AV companies. As a smaller company that focuses exclusively on Windows Mobile antivirus software, we were left out in the cold." and
"Fortunately, after mucking around in the underground for a while, we were able to obtain a copy of the Trojan..."
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=340544
Posted by Costin Raiu at 12:10 PM
October 6, 2004
Bush's simpler speaking style is more effective than John Kerry's academic sentences.
An analysis of President Bush and Senator Kerry's speaking style show that the former has a big problem conveying his message to the american people. After all, they only have an average understanding level of a 7th grader or below.
Posted by Costin Raiu at 11:10 AM