Interview with an anonymous hacker
Agnitum has been doing a little research into the activities of the web's so-called "black hats" (hackers and the like), and have spoken with a few of them here in St Petersburg, Russia, on condition of anonymity. This article and interview is a composite based on input from several individuals.
Read more at Agnitum's Security insight page.
Igor Pankov
Product Marketing Manager
Agnitum Ltd.
Read more at Agnitum's Security insight page.
Igor Pankov
Product Marketing Manager
Agnitum Ltd.
Labels: current threats, hackers, Internet security
posted by Agnitum BLOG at 4/11/2007 05:59:00 PM
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Looks like we'll all need hardware firewalls before long !! Interesting article..I've often wondered about the start-up/ shutdown 'lack of cover' -especially on a cable connection.Maybe a utility that inhibits any web transfers before Firewalla or AV is up and running safely would help here.
I've not seen one like this to date.Anyone know freeware that can do it?
PS: Thanks Agnitum for your good(free) service !!
5k
Thanks to Agnitum marketing dept. for the interesting (but too short) article. Don't you think you make smb to do the certain steps to find a/m utility and compile any new malware?
Thank you, for the feedback, guys! No, I don't think we encourage anyone to compile malware :), we're just warning about the threats that are hard to resist.
Pavel Goryakin
Agnitum Ltd.
Interesting article, but too short... I was expecting some more in depth information, specially on the motivations that the black hat community has, beside of the money they could make.
But, as always, you bring us a really good article.
And just to share with others, my security do not requires an hardware firewall. With Outpost for one side, Avast! for the other (best antivirus if you don't know it), really good programs for the Net (Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird) and of course don't being stupid, and that's all.
>Interesting article, but too short...
We are thinking of further "hackers' revelations" on various aspects in the future. Will keep you guys informed.
As for "hardware" firewalls, well, they all require some software supplements anyway. I guess the term is conditional.
Ok..I don't have or yet feel I need hardware add ons as Outpost does a really good job and I don't run servers, or a business online....but- as life gets dirtier ,as it surely will -I see hardware gateway control as an easy option.This will not please Agnitum, as I don't think that's their field..but it is a big area of concern - even though I am in the similar operating state as Cabo seems to be -I can't be as complacent!
5k
Well, I guess hardware firewalls would be a step back compared to the software ones. I'm not saying that just because we are software vendors. Both have their advantages. For instance, I found an article, one can't call it geeks' content, but it reveals some real pros and cons. Apparently to the naked eye, software firewalls are more flexible and easily customizable - an important fact to consider.
Pavel Goryakin
Seeing how software firewalls are more "flexible" to configure and customize, don't you think that they are as equally "flexible" to go around ? Or even attack ? One thing the hackers or malware assemblers haven't put in practice is attempting to disable the firewall before issuing the attack.They always go around security , and don't try to disable it and have their way afterwards.I hope you guys consider this as a "possible threat" as well.It won't be long before hackers try something too,you should be prepared.
As for software firewalls vs. hardware firewalls, I'd go with the software.The pros are obvious and , in my honest opinion , actually tilt the balance from hardware firewalls.But judging by the technological advancements , I may be very wrong.Who knows.
Anywho , great job Agnitum , I've been running your firewall for a couple of years now and it's saved me from formatting.Yep,haven't formatted and reinstalled in over 2 years.Great job , keep up the good work.Best firewall to the day (although you should work a bit on the CPU usage.Try this : make a small program that opens ports , integrate it into explorer and partially allow it in Outpost..It will kill the traffic , but it will allow the port opening.Cpu usage : 100%.)
Bogdan , Romania.
Thank you, Bogdan!
>It won't be long before hackers try >something too,you should be prepared.
That's why we are trying to understand their logics and predict possible threats :)
As for CPU usage, here the vendor always has to keep the balance between good functionality and "lightness". We've recently written about our attempts to do this regarding the antimalware module. See the post "Outpost Security Suite Pro – release candidate nominated".
Where can I get the last version of Pinch Builder?
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