IT Security Top Headlines » how-to http://www.pinolobu.com/security interesting news and opinions about IT security Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:05:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to detect inserted hidden illicit content in web pages http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2009/08/25/how-to-detect-inserted-hidden-illicit-content-in-web-pages/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2009/08/25/how-to-detect-inserted-hidden-illicit-content-in-web-pages/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:18:24 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/?p=106 Hackers exploit security vulnerabilities in popular web software such as blogs, forums, CMS, image galleries and wikis to insert hidden illicit content into web pages of innocent third-party web sites.

Thousands of web site owners are unaware that their sites are hacked and infected with parasites.

So what you think is your website might not be really yours after all.

One tool to detect the presence of suspicious URLs in hidden frames is by using this tool:

http://www.unmaskparasites.com/

I used this to detect Gumblar, a botnet that infects Web servers and infected Web site visitors for the purposes of installing malcode on PCs that redirects end-user Google searches to fraudulent Web sites.

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]]> http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/30/tips-on-creating-strong-passwords/feed/ 0 UNIX ownership and permissions provide for privacy and participation http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/27/unix-ownership-and-permissions-provide-for-privacy-and-participation/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/27/unix-ownership-and-permissions-provide-for-privacy-and-participation/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:46:45 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/10/23/unix-ownership-and-permissions-provide-for-privacy-and-participation/ As submitted by Gregd at digg:

“This article looks at user privileges and, in particular, examines how to manipulate file permissions to restrict or share your directories and files with others. Understanding permissions is crucial if you want to speak UNIX fluently…”

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]]> http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/09/08/sql-injection-walkthru/feed/ 0 Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networks http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/25/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/ http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/25/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 16:21:05 +0000 pinolobu http://www.pinolobu.com/security/2006/05/25/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/ Comments from digg

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