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Think you're protected? Think again

Pedro Bustamante at  17 October 07 02:02    
For many years the security industry has been saying that in order to be correctly protected, users should have an anti-malware and firewall solution installed and up-to-date with the latest signatures at all times. However malware today is really specialized
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Malware-friendly countries

Pedro Bustamante at  22 May 07 05:08    
Recently there have been some studies regarding Internet hosting providers which are often used maliciously to distribute malware. As this is an interesting subject we've been tracking quite a few thousand malware samples received over the last few
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The Long Tail: malware's business model

Pedro Bustamante at  08 January 07 04:53    
Chris Anderson first coined the term "The Long Tail" back in 2003 while explaining an interesting effect businesses on the Internet were starting to experience ( here and here ). Basically it consits on a statistical distribution which demonstrates
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A very large malware honeynet

Pedro Bustamante at  19 December 06 01:28    
As of today approximately 4.5 million PCs are running a malware honeypot on their machines with Panda's behavioural-based Host Intrusion Prevention System (aka TruPrevent©). All these high-interaction malware honeypot nodes report to PandaLabs
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