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Ruhai Zhang takes a look at the cat-and-mouse game of exploit samples, focusing on the widely used CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability.
Read moreDavid Harley (ESET)
‘Hoaxers ... use a form of memetic malware (‘viruses of the mind’) in order to reprogram system users.' David Harley, ESET.
Read moreEuropean security firms join forces to form the largest CERT provision in Europe.
Read moreComplaint lodged against mobile phone carriers for failing to warn users about Android security flaws.
Read moreIn the first and second parts of this series Aleksander Czarnowski covered the background information needed to understand the principles of ARM shellcoding and dissected some previously crafted shellcode. In this final part, he looks at some more…
Read moreRansomware goes to extra lengths to convince victims to hand over their cash.
Read moreSurvey finds 37% of CIOs spending more time managing security.
Read moreThe digitization of shopping and banking, the increasing use of social media, and the popularity of the Internet have made users more vulnerable to phishing, identity theft and other forms of online fraud. Bianca Dima and Alin Damian outline some…
Read moreThe programming of General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has become a common way to take advantage of the great power available on video cards. The programs, known as ‘shaders’, can be used to implement many things, including the…
Read moreNeo Tan (Fortinet)
Kyle Yang (Fortinet)
The Pushdo botnet has been active in the wild since January 2007, with three main generations seen to date. Neo Tan and colleagues take an in-depth look at three different variants of a new, more advanced version of Pushdo’s second generation.
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