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Warning wording analysed

Researchers study the psychology of malware warnings.

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Intel to remove McAfee

Rebranding will see McAfee name dropped from security products.

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Indian government launches spy system

Indian government announces Internet surveillance system.

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Effusion – a new sophisticated injector for Nginx web servers

Evgeny Sidorov (Yandex)
Konstantin Otrashkevich (Yandex)

At VB2013 Evgeny Sidorov spoke about three modern approaches used by attackers to embed malicious code into HTTP responses. One such approach was the use of web-server modules for malware distribution. Here, Evgeny and his colleagues describe…

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Medfos - an all-purpose redirector: Appendix

Neo Tan (Fortinet)

Appendix to Medfos - an all-purpose redirectot

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Onkod: a downloader and its 'downloadee'

Downloaders are usually small and simple files whose goal is purely to download the ‘main course’ of a malware infection. The downloaded file (or ‘downloadee’) invariably has more features and functionalities than the downloader. Raul Alvarez looks…

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Surveillance and servility: is the AV industry a puppet of statecraft?

Samir Mody (K7 Computing)

‘Surveillance has been an instrument of statecraft for millennia.' Samir Mody, K7 Computing

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Greetz from academe: Santa's got a gun

In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at a tool designed to detect JavaScript containing malicious evasions.

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The past and future of international cooperation

Wout de Natris urges parliamentarians to facilitate cooperation across borders and asks: why is it necessary, in 2013, to give up a little bit of sovereignty and territoriality?

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Crystal ball gazing

Round-up of some of the security industry's predictions for the year ahead.

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