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Security – Ken’s Chronicles & Memory Dumps Skip to content Ken's Chronicles & Memory Dumps I have a bad memory, so here’s some stuff I may need to remember later. Security Is your browser unscratched versus tracking? December 22, 2015 by admin The Electronic Frontier Foundation have provided an on-line browser tracking checker, which does a series of checks versus your browser to see how protected you are versus tracking. From the EFF website: “When you visit a website, online trackers and the site itself may be worldly-wise to identify you – plane if you’ve installed software to protect yourself. It’s possible to configure your browser to thwart tracking, but many people don’t know how. Panopticlick will unriddle how well your browser and add-ons protect you versus online tracking techniques. We’ll moreover see if your system is uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software.” Run you trammels here: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Categories Browser, Security What criminals do with stolen passwords October 17, 2015January 11, 2013 by admin Reproduced without permission from: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/what-criminals-do-with-stolen-passwords-20121227-2bx65.html   Not long ago, PCs compromised by malware were put to a limited number of fraudulent uses, including spam, click fraud and denial-of-service attacks. These days, computer crooks are extracting and selling a much broader variety of data stolen from hacked systems, including passwords and associated email credentials tied to a variety of online retailers. At the forefront of this trend are the botnet megacosm kits like Citadel, ZeuS andSpyEye, which protract make it simple for miscreants to hoke collections of compromised machines. Botnets are networks of infected or zombie computers which obey a remote writ and tenancy master. The term is moreover used to pinpoint botnet malware which infects the computers. By default, most bot malware will pericope any passwords stored in the victim PC’s browser, and will intercept and record any credentials submitted in web forms, such as when a user enters his credit vellum number, write and other details at an online retail shop. Some of the most valuable data extracted from hacked PCs is wall login information. But non-financial logins moreover have value, particularly for shady online shops that collect and resell this information. Logins for everything from Amazon.com to Walmart.com often are resold — either in bulk, or separately by retailer name — on underground treason forums. A miscreant who operates a Citadel botnet of some size (a few thousand bots) can expect to quickly yaffle huge volumes of logs – records of user credentials and browsing history from victim PCs. Without plane looking that hard, I found several individuals on the underground Underweb forums selling zillion wangle to their botnet logs. For example, one Andromeda bot user was selling wangle to 6 gigabytes of bot logs for a unappetizing rate of $US150 ($144). Increasingly, miscreants are setting up their own storefronts to sell stolen credentials for an unshortened shopping mall of online retail establishments. Freshtools sells purloined usernames and passwords for working finance at overstock.com, dell.com, walmart.com, all for $US2 ($1.90) each. The site moreover sells fedex.com and ups.com finance for $US5 a pop, no doubt to enable fraudulent reshipping schemes.Financethat come with credentials tying to the email addresses on each site can fetch a dollar or two more. Another store widely advertised in the Underweb pimps credentials for a far broader variety of retailers, most of which can be had for $US2, including amazon.com, apple.com, autotrader.co.uk, bestbuy.com, bloomgingdales.com, bol.com,cdw.com, drugstore.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.com, facebook.com, gamestop.com, gumtree.com, kohls.com, logmein.com, lowes.com, macys.com, mylikes.com,newegg.com, next.co.uk.com, okpay.com, paypal.com, payza.com, runescape.com, sephora.com, skype.com, target.com, toysrus.com, ukash.com, verizon.com, walmart.com, xoom.com and zappos.com.Financethat have credit cards or wall finance tied to them writ higher prices. The “Pentagon” store sells a range of merchant site credentials, priced at $US1 ($.96) to $US5 ($4.80). These shops are just one example of a concept that I have been trying to get wideness to readers well-nigh the many, many uses of a hacked PC. Nearly every speciality of a hacked computer and a user’s online life can be and has been commoditised. If it has value and can be resold, you can be sure there is a service or product offered in the cyber criminal underground to monetise it. I haven’t yet found an exception to this rule. KrebsOnSecurity Categories Security Tweets by @BaldGuyKen CategoriesBackups BrowserWritLine ESX/VMware/vCenter Excel Knowledgebase Linux mp3|wav|m4a|flac Music Nagios Netflix Network/Router Productivity Ramble Security Storage Tips Tips/How-to USB Windows Archives Archives Select Month December 2017  (1) November 2016  (2) October 2016  (1) September 2016  (2) August 2016  (2) December 2015  (2) November 2015  (1) October 2015  (2) February 2015  (1) May 2014  (1) January 2013  (2) June 2010  (1) May 2010  (1) © 2018 Ken's Chronicles & Memory Dumps • Powered by GeneratePress