ePsiLoN's Information Security Blog

Year: 2011

Imaginary Marching Band – freaky!
ePsiLoN
05/19/2011
Random
One of the things I really enjoy are DIY things and admire ppl, coming with great ideas and making our life more colorful. Here is an example – http://www.imaginarymarchingband.com/. Those guys are making small prototypes of instruments so you can play you’re favorite marching band instrument only by pantomiming with your hands. I really enjoyed…
First look at the Zeus source code – leak 2
ePsiLoN
05/17/2011
Attacks, Malware and Reverse Engineering, News, Random
So the first thing I did was to search the source code to see which banks had been targeted and for my surprize – one of the Bulgarian banks was targeted – ProCredit. The link to the e-banking login page thou is invalid, but the name of the password field is correct 🙂 Stay tuned…
Zeus code posted online
ePsiLoN
05/17/2011
Forensics, Malware and Reverse Engineering, News
So … Here it is Zeus source code is online! It’s already few days old info, but I just red about it and luckily the download links were still alive. I was able to find information about the both leaks on http://pastebin.com/VqHq9WeD. Enjoy!
BackTrack v5 – more juicy with GNOME – part1
ePsiLoN
05/11/2011
Security tools
So here it is – the new version of our beloved pentesting Linux distribution – BackTrack – is out. Thanks to all the developers that took time to put together v5. The thing that i found really exciting is GNOME interface. KDE was really annoying to me and never get used to it. Just installing…
Back to life
ePsiLoN
05/05/2011
News, Random
It was some time since I was not able to blog, but now online again – welcoming myself back …duh
Forensic books on mobile platforms expected in 2011
ePsiLoN
03/09/2011
Forensics, Mobile Security
Two books from Syngress on mobile platforms security and forensics are to be on the market in June 2011. One of them is focused on iOS security and forensic techniques and is authored by bobile forensic experts Andrew Hoog and Katie Strzempka. The other one is solo work of Andrew Hoog. According to the draft…
New Forensics challenge by Honeynet project
ePsiLoN
03/09/2011
Forensics, News, Wargames & Challenges
If you enjoy challenges, especially forensic ones – here is another one brought by Honeynet project. It is suitable even for beginners :). The solutions should be submitted by 30th of March so hurry up 🙂
Why the shoemaker walks barefoot?
ePsiLoN
03/02/2011
Incident management
For a long time I’ve refrained from commenting on the HBGary case. And that’s because everyone already spoke out louder their own opinions. So I thought that everything is already said. Today I found small chunk of time to read some RSS feed entries left behind of my reading schedule. One of them a “The…
Online Banking targeted by new Zeus version for Windows mobile
ePsiLoN
02/24/2011
Attacks, Malware and Reverse Engineering, News
For those of you that never heard for Zeus trojan – this is special bread that targets online banking users, stealing their credentials. It does implement pretty old idea for key logging. Zeus botnet however is huge and estimated to contain millions of compromised computer. Internet is full of detailed information. The trojan is active…
Long live GSM insecurity
ePsiLoN
01/04/2011
Mobile Security, News, Vulnerabilities and Vulnerability management
During the second day of the 27th Chaos Communication Congress Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut demonstrated why gsm calls and messaging should be considered insecure more than ever. For details visit the congress website. Enjoy!