Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Developers of the Firefox browser are designing new technologies aimed at protecting users from some of the nastiest and most prevalent forms of website attacks.
One protection is designed to minimize end users' risk to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and cross-site request forgeries (CSRFs), both of which subvert basic internet security ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
We have been noticing quite a few binaries lately that target Brazilian banks. While most tend to have the same behavior, we found a particular piece that actually encrypted most of its strings to slow down analysis. In this blog we analyze the decryption routine and write a decryption algorithm, ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Symantec Corp. today announced the availability of Symantec Online Fraud Protection, a comprehensive program that includes Symantec services, education and ongoing monitoring and management capabilities designed to protect businesses that conduct large volumes of financial transactions and their customers from losses due to online fraud.
This offering helps businesses shield their ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.
The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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