malware
RSS malwareATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News Last month, a computer forensics expert revealed he had discovered malware on ATMs that allowed criminals to steal account data and PINs. It's almost security conference season in Las Vegas and with one month to go, a... [02 Jul 2009]
Dell puts email, encryption up in the cloud
News For example, the Distributed Device Management service includes features such as asset management, software distribution, patch management and anti-malware management. Dell has rolled out a SaaS package to enable... [30 Jun 2009]
Watch the Money-Go-Round, Watch the Malware-Go-Round
White Paper This paper researches the current exploding trend towards profit-driven, mercenary malware and how this change in the motivation of those producing malicious content is affecting the anti-virus industry and users. [25 Jun 2009]
Rootkits: The New Wave of Invisible Malware Is Here
White Paper This paper aims to provide a basic explanation of rootkits and how this low level technology can be used by malware developers to infiltrate computers in a way that is very difficult to detect and remove. [25 Jun 2009]
Towards Disk-Level Malware Detection
White Paper In the area of malicious code (malware) detection, Anti-Virus (AV) engines are slow and have trouble correctly identifying many types of malware. Their goal is to help make malware... [25 Jun 2009]
Data Security Summary January to June 2005
White Paper One particular trend in malware-writing from the black hats is the rapid increase in new trojans and bots. Unlike the more indiscriminate assaults by viruses and worms, trojans can be delivered with precision to target... [25 Jun 2009]
The Sky IS Falling: The Need for Stronger Consumer Online Banking Authentication
White Paper However, the new forms of attack, spyware, and Trojan horses, and keyloggers, cause a user to unwittingly download malware, which is computer code developed for the malicious intention of collecting various user... [25 Jun 2009]
High Speed Content Inspection
White Paper Downloading malware or sending virus and worms via attachments is now the most dangerous security threat to organizations since traditional security measures, firewalls, seldom have application-level inspection capability. [25 Jun 2009]
Detecting Self-Mutating Malware Using Control-Flow Graph Matching
White Paper Next generation malware will be characterized by the intense use of polymorphic and metamorphic techniques aimed at circumventing the current malware detectors, based on pattern matching. In order to... [25 Jun 2009]
Passfaces as a Countermeasure for Phishing and Malware
White Paper Upcoming malware threats have added fuel to the fire. The cleverness of social engineering has again damaged the prospects for online commerce, and online banking services in particular. The stakes are high and... [25 Jun 2009]
Security Threat Report: 2009
White Paper One only needs to count the rate at which new malware appears today compared to five years ago to see how quickly the threat has become more serious. Read this Sophos Security Threat Report to learn about the... [25 Jun 2009]
Applying Collaborative Anti-Spam Techniques to the Anti-Virus Problem
White Paper However, it is not obvious that this also holds true for email-borne malware threats, whose sole indicator is often only a malicious attachment to an otherwise seemingly legitimate e-mail. One of the most effective... [25 Jun 2009]
Scalability, Fidelity, and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm
White Paper The rapid evolution of large-scale worms, viruses and bot-nets have made Internet malware a pressing concern. However, the most widely used tools for gathering intelligence on new malware - network... [25 Jun 2009]
Anti-Malware Tools: Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper This paper will investigate the use of IDS systems, specifically to counter/block/detect malware. This paper will include instructions and guidance on the setup of such a system, numerous examples of suitable rules to... [25 Jun 2009]
APHIDS++: Evolution of a Programmable Hybrid Intrusion Detection System
White Paper Antivirus software, intrusion detection systems, spyware and malware detectors are some of the protection mechanisms available to users today. With the rapid growth of the Internet and the ever-increasing security... [25 Jun 2009]
