http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:59:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/09/an-insult-to-romanians-published-on-the-twitter-account-of-the-french-foreign-ministry/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/09/an-insult-to-romanians-published-on-the-twitter-account-of-the-french-foreign-ministry/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:00:39 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4927 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/09/an-insult-to-romanians-published-on-the-twitter-account-of-the-french-foreign-ministry/feed/ 2 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/persistent-xss-on-twitter-com/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/persistent-xss-on-twitter-com/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:32:11 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4423 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/persistent-xss-on-twitter-com/feed/ 15 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/going-after-bp/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/going-after-bp/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:43:09 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4050 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/going-after-bp/feed/ 3 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/we-shall-strike-if-the-leader-orders-twitter-struck-by-iranian-cyber-army/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/we-shall-strike-if-the-leader-orders-twitter-struck-by-iranian-cyber-army/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:32:07 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2500 administrative portal of managed DNS service provider Dyn.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/we-shall-strike-if-the-leader-orders-twitter-struck-by-iranian-cyber-army/feed/ 12 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/%e2%80%9chi-this-you-lol%e2%80%9d-twitter-attack-snares-kevin-mitnick/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/%e2%80%9chi-this-you-lol%e2%80%9d-twitter-attack-snares-kevin-mitnick/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:16:33 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1811 account of security consultant and former cracker Kevin Mitnick was caught up in this generic, untargeted Twitter “worm”.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/%e2%80%9chi-this-you-lol%e2%80%9d-twitter-attack-snares-kevin-mitnick/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/not-the-haus-of-gaga-too/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/not-the-haus-of-gaga-too/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:20:58 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1723 @ladygaga was cracked in to and a series of messages added to her tweet stream. This is the second high profile Twitter account to be cracked in the last few days, on Friday the account of pop singer Britney Spears, @BritneySpears, started professing sympathy for the devil. The Lady Gaga one is interesting though, because like an homage to old school cracks of the past, the attackers appear to have left their name. Further these are two high profile accounts broken into after Twitter has implemented at least three major changes to their web site's authentication process.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/not-the-haus-of-gaga-too/feed/ 6 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/sir-the-floor-wishes-to-hear-no-more-about-your-colon/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/sir-the-floor-wishes-to-hear-no-more-about-your-colon/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:22:16 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1340 Twitter worm/twishing attack of the other day has caught some interesting casualties in its net, most notably Marco Rubio a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and a viable candidate for one of Florida's Senate seats in 2010 and Zach Wamp, a candidate for Governor of Tennessee and a 14 year U.S. congressional representative.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/sir-the-floor-wishes-to-hear-no-more-about-your-colon/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/a-twitter-worms-brilliant-variation/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/a-twitter-worms-brilliant-variation/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:55:03 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1285 back on September 24th. The variant has changed the direct message from "ROFL, this you on here?" to "hi. this you on here?". The bad actor in China has also used a new URL, but with the same Twitter login landing page identifiable by its stray HTML brace ">" following the line under 'Sign in to Twitter'. This important difference in wording should allow for a spate of new captured twitter credentials.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/a-twitter-worms-brilliant-variation/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/breaking-twitter-authentication/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/breaking-twitter-authentication/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:26:54 +0000 Jeremy Rossi http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=530 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/breaking-twitter-authentication/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/rofl-this-you-on-here-the-latest-twitter-worm/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/rofl-this-you-on-here-the-latest-twitter-worm/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:25:29 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=484 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/rofl-this-you-on-here-the-latest-twitter-worm/feed/ 7 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/04/snort-is-tweeting/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/04/snort-is-tweeting/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:12:27 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=74 @SnortIDS on Twitter.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/04/snort-is-tweeting/feed/ 0