Attacking Banks – Encrypted Strings and Local Content Injection

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, ...

Symantec Launches Online Fraud Protection

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 ...

Cisco alums readying firewall killer

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls. A traditional firewall and its access control lists "is not capable of doing its job today from an access-control perspective," says CEO and President Shane Buckley. "Nowadays, your ...

PayPal Single-Use or Multiple-Use Secure Card

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

For those of you that do not know, Paypal allows their registered users to generate temporary MasterCard credit card numbers on the fly to be used on websites that do not allow secure payment methods such as PayPal or Google Checkout. When you log into your PayPal account, you should see ...

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released

Friday, May 16th, 2008

If you are already running a BETA version of Firefox 3 just go to Help > Check for Updates. Or you can download it and try it here: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html