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Forensic Analysis Avoidance Techniques of Malware

Anti-forensic techniques are increasingly being used by malware writers to avoid detection and analysis of their malicious code. Penalties for writing malware could include termination of employment, fines or even, imprisonment. Malware writers are motivated not to get caught and are actively using subversive techniques to avoid forensic analysis. Techniques...

Tags: Technique, Malware, Analysis, Anti-forensic Technique, Malware Writer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

White papers 2007-12-19

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Nokia sues Apple over iPhone

?trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia?s innovation.?What do you mean? All innovation begins with Apple. Remember when they invented the portable digital music player? Or the thin laptop? Or the smart phone and touch screens? They even invented mice and GUI's. Apple invented everything...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Six tips for flash photography

While I'm a very resistant towards using flash in my photos, there are just certain times where it is absolutely necessary. But mastering flash photography isn't the easiest task. Here are six tips to get you started. 1. Avoid glass: Don't put your subjects in front of glass...

Tags: Photograph, Flash, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-09-24

ForceBindIP 1.2 (Windows)

ForceBindIP is a freeware Windows application that will inject itself into another application and alter how certain Windows Sockets calls are made, allowing you to force the other application to use a specific network interface / IP address. This is useful if you are in an environment with multiple interfaces...

Tags: Dynamic-link Library, Microsoft Windows, Richard Stanway, ForceBindIP, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spam

Too Bad ..."They try to distinguish humans from robots when entering form data."Too bad they can't discriminate humans from 3rd World wage slaves decoding them for the spammers :(RE: Google buys reCAPTCHA: Digitize old books and fight spamCool from a machine learning standpoint but does this freak you out since...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Google buys reCAPTCHA, Google Buys, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Adobe Flash zero-day attack underway; Harden PDF Reader immediately

Malicious hackers have found a new vulnerability in Adobe's ever-present Flash software and are using rigged PDF documents to launch exploits against Windows targets. The Adobe Flash Player flaw, which is currently unpatched, affects millions of Windows XP and Windows Vista users.  Adobe has acknowledged a "potential...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Exploit, Zero-day Bug, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-22

LG 42LH90

Photo gallery: LG LH90 seriesWith every new technology release, LCD tries to catch up to plasma in the picture quality race, but never seems to succeed. The biggest potential equalizer attached to LCD's engine is LED backlighting with local dimming, a technology first marketed widely by Samsung two...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., LG LH90

Product reviews 2009-07-10

LG 55LH90

Photo gallery: LG LH90 seriesWith every new technology release, LCD tries to catch up to plasma in the picture quality race, but never seems to succeed. The biggest potential equalizer attached to LCD's engine is LED backlighting with local dimming, a technology first marketed widely by Samsung two...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., LG LH90

Product reviews 2009-07-10

LG 47LH90

Photo gallery: LG LH90 seriesWith every new technology release, LCD tries to catch up to plasma in the picture quality race, but never seems to succeed. The biggest potential equalizer attached to LCD's engine is LED backlighting with local dimming, a technology first marketed widely by Samsung two...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., LG LH90

Product reviews 2009-07-10

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard

Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardAlready in the works...Been in research for going on 4 years.RE: Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petardI wouldn't want to think Chrome browser adoption has been great. Same way, though the idea is a nice one of no frills, kind of web only OS (are...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, Web browsers, Moonlight 2.0, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Cat Got Your Tongue: How Gossip Will Become The New Media

If you believe the profile, there is a cat that twitters. And has 512,733 followers, as of mid-afternoon May 18. Of course, this cat â€" alternately known as “Sockamillion” or “Sockington” â€" and his voice really belongs to Jason Scott, who lives in Waltham, Mass. ...

Tags: Media, Social Media, Conference, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Wiki sues Apple over DMCA claims

Wiki sues Apple over DMCA claimsBully for BlueWiki!!If we start bottling up what can and cannot be talked about publicly then we may as well be living in a Kafkaesque nightmare.Whilst I understand the company not wanting to have all its secure measures of retaining a customer torn away it...

Tags: Digital media, site name, Apple Inc., DMCA, DMCA claim, Wiki

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

New Skype Vulnerability Discovered

A new phishing attack demonstrated by the folks over at Secure Science allows hackers to  gain access to a user's Skype client and then  pose as a financial institution or proxy outbond calls. The technique is called "SkypeSkrayping” and is similar to a  phishing attacking only a bit more interactive:...

Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, Skype Technologies S.A., Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?

After reading the latest news about Conficker, I was wondering: Would it be legal to create and deploy a super worm that had an anti-malware payload designed to shut down and prevent infections by other worms? On the one hand, you'd be making unauthorized use of other...

Tags: Worm, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-04-09

TomTom, Microsoft settle: Who caved?

TomTom, Microsoft settle: Who caved?It almost seems like TomTom was expecting this... as fast as they reacted.. seems like they had a contingency plan. I imagine they also wanted to ensure their stock didnt crumble.Its interesting how fast MS agreed though. Maybe it wasnt that big of a...

Tags: TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

A pair of Argentinian researchers have found a way to perform a BIOS level malware attack capable of surviving even a hard-disk wipe. The researchers -- Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies -- used the stage at last week's CanSecWest conference to demonstrate methods...

Tags: Hard Drive, Researcher, Attack, BIOS, Rootkits, Security, Hardware, Components, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller

VANCOUVER, BC -- At the CanSecWest security conference here, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who broke into a fully patched MacBook machine using a Safari code execution vulnerability. We discuss the state of Web browser security, the vulnerability marketplace and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Bug, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Hacker, Exploit, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Improved Spam Filtering by Extraction of Information From Text Embedded Image e-Mail

The increase of image spam, a kind of spam in which the text message is embedded into an attached image to defeat spam filtering techniques, is becoming an increasingly major problem.. For nearly a decade, content based filtering using text classification or machine learning has been a major trend of...

Tags: Technique, Spam Filtering, Association For Computing Machinery, Ontology, Productivity, E-mail, Spam, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Management

White papers 2009-03-12

With Tom Tom suit, is Microsoft going after Linux?

With Tom Tom suit, is Microsoft going after Linux?Obviously, this IS about Linux. The FAT implementation is GPL, and part ofthe kernel. This is all about making Linux devices more expensive and creating fear around using Linux in devices. But, it could backfire if FAT patents are invalidated. Look for...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Tom-Tom, patent, MICROSOFT GOING

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Free But Fake: Rogue Anti-Malware

Most antivirus products are commercial and typically offer, as is the case with ESET solutions, free trial versions for a 30-day period. This limitation is the perfect excuse for criminals to recommend their "Free and magical" antivirus software which guarantees to solve problems that the user does not really have....

Tags: Eset, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

White papers 2009-02-25