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News Software also hit the headlines in September, as silicon.com reporter Nick Heath explored why malware writers are turning to open source in their attempts to garner victims' financial details. Once... [06 Oct 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. By giving criminal coders free access to malware that steals financial and personal... [18 Sep 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it's merely safer to use because malware writers prefer to target the platform with the... [27 Aug 2009]
Symbian security slip-up: Trojan passes security test
News Virus writers scan their malware, and keep modifying it until it passes the filters," said Hypponen. Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure's chief research officer, told ZDNet UK on Friday that the... [20 Jul 2009]
VIPRE Takes a Bite Out of Bloatware
White Paper Hackers and rogue code writers will continue to ply their trade and create new, ever more efficient and pernicious viruses and blended malware threats. No company from the smallest business with 10 users... [30 Jun 2009]
The Changing Face of Vulnerabilities
White Paper Although social engineering does not play a role in all forms of security threats, McAfee Avert Labs has observed a growing trend recently: malware writers using social engineering to exploit software... [30 Jun 2009]
A Semantics-Based Approach to Malware Detection
White Paper This reliance on a syntactic approach makes such detectors vulnerable to code obfuscations, increasingly used by malware writers that alter syntactic properties of the malware byte... [20 Jun 2009]
Adobe patches hole after exploits found in the wild
News Adobe Systems on Tuesday issued a security update to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9, which has already been exploited by malware writers. The vulnerability could allow an... [11 Mar 2009]
eBay: Let us look inside your PC
News From this year, eBay will open the doors on a new site offering malware scanning to its users as part of a raft of new features aimed at beating the phishers and virus writers. The site, eBay Garage,... [23 Feb 2009]
Mac antivirus warning removed by Apple
News There are no known viruses in the wild that exploit a vulnerability in the Mac OS, and Windows continues to be the overwhelming preference for malware writers to target their programs. The message that... [03 Dec 2008]
Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection: A Key Layer in Complete Enterprise Email Security
White Paper Virus writers have identified the weak-point of traditional AV engines - the time it takes to develop protection for new viruses - and have exploited it to their advantage by flooding the Internet with thousands of new... [18 Nov 2008]
Extensible Web Browser Security
White Paper To solidify the claim, the paper takes on the role of malware writers looking to assume control of a user's browser space. Extensions (or "Plug-ins") in modern web browsers enjoy unlimited power without... [18 Nov 2008]
Microsoft: Trojan threat is rising
News China is at the top of the list because the software developers there are not as disciplined in writing code with security in mind and the huge market is an attractive target for malware writers,... [04 Nov 2008]
Software Transformations to Improve Malware Detection
White Paper In order to evade detection, malware writers use various obfuscation techniques to transform their malware. Malware is code designed for a malicious purpose, such as... [22 Oct 2008]
HookFinder: Identifying and Understanding Malware Hooking Behaviors
White Paper In order to defeat existing hook detectors, malware writers keep exploring new hooking mechanisms. Installing various hooks into the victim system is an important attacking strategy employed by... [22 Oct 2008]
