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Submission + - Hacker 'Kills' DEF CON Founder Jeff Moss (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: In one of the busiest sessions at this past weekend's DEF CON security conference, an Australian security researcher showed how it was possible to get someone legally declared dead, with a full death certificate. Among the victims, was the founder of DEF CON and Black Hat, Jeff Moss.

"I know it's not good form to kill your host, but this a death certificate for Jeff Moss," Security reseacher Chris Rock said as he showed a screenshot of an EDRS form with Moss' name on it as the audience erupted into laughter. "He doesn't know he's dead, he's still walking around, but on paper he's dead and that might be a problem for him when he travels."

Submission + - The words that indicate malicious domain URLs (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from AT&T have released research [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04111v1] which improves the identification-rate of malicious URLs — such as those used for C&C servers or to distribute malware to redirected victims — by individuating words in the domain names. Though many of the words that Wei Wang and Kenneth Shirley were able to group as 'malign' are predictable, there is a strange recurrence of basketball-related words in the URL lexicon of malice, with 'bad' domains using names such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. By contrast 'golf' is least likely to be seen in a dangerous URL, along with state names, scenery and realty.

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