May 2008 - Posts

Debian OpenSSL

Pedro Bustamante at  27 May 08 05:45    
From HDMoore , too good to pass out:
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Fenomen(al) False Positives

Pedro Bustamante at  19 May 08 06:22    
One of the problems with automation of antivirus signature creation is that if a few AV vendors start detecting something as malicious, even with heuristics, "automagically" soon afterwards other AV vendors start doing the same without even
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Anti-Rootkit Testing

Pedro Bustamante at  16 May 08 12:02    
DarkReading issued a note a few days ago titled " New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV ". These tests, originally performed by AV-Test.org , are becoming more important every day as malware is making use of advanced rootkit and hiding techniques
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New Malware Prevalence April 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  09 May 08 12:51    
Even though we get thousands of new malware samples in the lab every day, only a fraction of these make it in-the-wild actively infecting users. These are the most interesting samples for us as they're the ones we need to concentrate on the most.
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