March 2007 - Posts

Hello from Black Hat Amsterdam

Pedro Bustamante at  30 March 07 11:13    
It is now the start of the second day of Black Hat briefings at the great city of Amsterdam. The most remarkable presentation so far has been RFIDIOTs !!! from Adam Laurie, where he showed how to clone RFIDs and even read biometrical information from
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eCrime 2007 Congress

Pedro Bustamante at  29 March 07 04:45    
Yesterday the 2007 eCrime Congress finished in London. We had a good time there, met some interesting people and learned a lot about how financial entities and banks deal with fraud and phishing attacks. For those interested in my presentation about the
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Packing a punch (II)

Pedro Bustamante at  20 March 07 08:11    
Following up on the Packing a punch post, we recently came across a couple of banking targeted attack Trojans that use interesting signature-based detection evading techniques. There's packers (UPX, FSG, etc.) and cryptors or protectors (ASProtect,
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Panda @ Jotti

Pedro Bustamante at  14 March 07 05:41    
We're happy to announce the integration of the Panda engine into Jotti online scanning service. Even though the linux pav engine at Jotti is a bit old and doesn't have genetic heuristics, we'll soon be integrating version 1.4.3 .
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Vista compatibility

Pedro Bustamante at  13 March 07 10:52    
First it was Panda Antivirus 2007 for consumers and ClientShield for corporate desktops, now also Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2007 Beta (aka Titanium version 6.01.08) is compatible with Windows Vista. Check out our Vista Compatibility Information site at
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Panda Engine 1.4.3

Pedro Bustamante at  12 March 07 05:33    
We're happy to announce that after many months of development we are finally releasing our Panda Engine version 1.4.3. Some of the most significant improvements made are: Improved support for Office12 formats Improved support of .SIS formats Support
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PandaLabs 2006 Reports

Pedro Bustamante at  05 March 07 01:43    
It's that time of the year again. PandaLabs has recently published its Annual 2006 Report . It's also very interesting to read the detailed quarterly reports for Q1 , Q2 and Q3 . I specially like the "day-to-day" reports section. Great
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