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Greetz from academe: No place to Hyde

In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at a paper that describes how malicious apps can be slipped past Apple’s app review process.

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More fast or more dirty?

It is not uncommon, nowadays, for businesses to outsource their marketing to third parties - but sometimes, such business links lead to malicious activities. Ke Zhang dissects a piece of malware that generates referrer spam for a ‘web search site’…

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The shape of things to come

Momentous changes are in the pipeline for VB – with an exciting future ahead. Helen Martin announces the changes that are in store for the publication and the company.

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Securing the Internet of Things

Cisco launches competition to help with securing the Internet of Things.

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Insurers refuse to cover poorly protected power firms

Energy and utility companies are being turned down when requesting insurance cover for cyber attacks because their defences are perceived to be too weak.

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Black market haul

Security firm finds millions of stolen credentials and email addresses on the black market.

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Not Expir-ed yet

Expiro is a file infector that resurfaces from time to time, demonstrating more skills on each new appearance – infecting a service that gives a unique vantage point on traditional malicious activities; running the malware at computer restart without…

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Greetz from academe: Censored

John Aycock highlights an ACSAC paper that looks at the issue of detecting web content modifications.

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ProxyCB, a spam proxy under the radar

Kyle Yang (Fortinet)

ProxyCB is a trojan that acts as a proxy server to send spam via the HTTP, HTTPS or SMTP protocol. Wei Wang and Kyle Yang take a detailed look at its installation process, how it bypasses UAC, and the final payload loading process, before dissecting…

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BYOT: Bring Your Own Target

Gabor Szappanos (Sophos)

The author of Simbot doesn’t take anything for granted: all the necessary components for the malware’s execution are bundled and dropped onto the system, including the relevant vulnerable application for exploitation and regular Windows system…

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