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FBI issues code cracking challenge

"The FBI today challenged anyone in the online community to break a cipher code on its site. The code was created by FBI cryptanalysts. The bureau invited hackers to a similar code-cracking challenge last year and got tens of thousands of responses it said. A number of sites host such cipher...

Oracle Forensics Part 7: Using the Oracle System Change Number in Forensic Investigations

David Litchfield has published a new tool and paper on forensics on Oracle Databases. From his email to the Websecurity mailing list."I've just posted a new tool and paper for Oracle forensics. The tool, orablock, allows a forensic investigator to dump data from a "cold" Oracle data file - i.e. there's...

Oracle Forensics Papers Released

David Litchfield has published multiple papers on Oracle Database Forensics. From his site "Since the state of California passed the Database Security Breach Notification Act (SB 1386) in 2003 another 34 states have passed similar legislation with more set to follow. In January 2007 TJX announced they had suffered a database...

Decoding Javascript Malware

One of the SANS guys drafted up a quick document on decoding Javascript malware providing four methods. Good read. Article Link: http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html