I spent a lot of time over the past few years on airplanes and one thing I’ve noticed is that laptop LCD technology has come a long way. If I wanted to, I could watch movies on someone else’s computer from as many as five rows away. The displays are […]
Every now and then I get a but annoyed with malware writers. One instance of this is when I cleared my schedule to analyze some malware, and it turns out that it took me about 5 minutes to analyze the sames and find out that they were nothing more than adware downloaders.
But then, something like […]
In 2006 we saw an increase in the number of attacks targeting Windows, specifically MS Office, file formats. We’ve seen some also attack WinAmp and other media players, and even a few targeting AV software and file formats, but MS Office appears to be the main target of interest. Indications show that hundreds of such […]
I sure do post a lot about phishing here, don’t I? It’s because it’s such a fascinating subject, mixing the motives of the attacker, sometimes some code analysis (ie deconstructing their JavaScript), and victim analysis.
I had a look at the recent data shared by Symantec in Phishers Take Summers and Weekends Off, Too and decided […]
You know you’re doing something right when you get attacked. Shortly after their appearance, specifically their widespread appearance in browsers such as FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, anti-phishing toolbars have come under attack. The attacks are pretty much what you would expect: move quickly to defeat the utility of the information in those blacklists.
The […]
