The Domain Name System (DNS) has been a crucial part of the Internet / WWW since its conception back in 1983. Invented by Paul Mockapetris whilst he was a member of the Information Sciences Institute ...
The perpetrators of ransomware attacks are pretty low with their moral standing, but a recent attack by the BlackCat gang shows that they can sink to some very low depths. In the blog I posted yesterd...
In this blog I’ll cover two breaking events which might be very significant in the coming weeks/months. If you’ve been following my posts over the last few months, you will have noticed a ...
The (adapted) most iconic poster tagline for any film starts this blog*, and with good reason, a new variant of the Xenomorph banking trojan has been seen in the wild causing issues for Android users....
The FBI announced on Thursday (9th March) that they had seized a domain which had been used to sell a Network Remote Administration Tool which was actually a malicious application that allowed threat ...
Nearly every website you visit requires you to create a user account and think up a password. As discussed in my blog on passwords back in January, this can be quite a task for some to remember a diff...
Stealerium is an open-source stealer malware available on GitHub, and as the name suggests, the malware steals information from various applications as well as the host device. The applications target...
For this 4th and final installment in this mini-series, I will take a look at the ZeroNet system. What is ZeroNet? ZeroNet is an open-source, distributed, peer-to-peer web hosting service which has be...
For my 3rd installment of this mini-series of blogs about the dark web, I will take a look at the system called I2P. What is I2P? I2P, or the Invisible Internet Project is a fully encrypted priva...
In this 2nd installment of this mini-series of blogs about the dark web, I will take a look at the system called Freenet. What is freenet? According to the website freenetproject.org, Freenet is a pee...