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A deeper look into the ZeroAccess clickbot

Click fraud has been one of the biggest concerns for online advertisers for many years, and as researchers invest effort into developing pattern recognition and detection mechanisms to identify the fraudulent patterns, so the attackers tweak and…

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Java security in the era of BYOD

Aleksander Czarnowski (AVET Information and Network Security)

‘It concerns me that my daughter’s favourite game requires access to Wi‑Fi, contacts, the operating system, etc.’ Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET.

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Cybersecurity centre for Arab region launched

Oman hosts region's cybersecurity hub.

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Convicted cybercriminal hacks prison's computer systems

Epic fail as convicted hacker enrolls in IT class for inmates.

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Shellcoding ARM: part 2

In the first part of this series Aleksander Czarnowski covered the background information needed to understand the principles of ARM shellcoding. In this follow-up article he moves on to dissect some previously crafted shellcode.

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It’s mental static!

We have seen viruses with binary components, viruses with script components, and viruses with binary components that drop script components. Now comes a virus whose binary component executes its script component directly in memory by using a binary…

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What are browser exploit kits up to? A look into Sweet Orange and ProPack

Blackhole has been the major player in the exploit kit market for a while now, but the Sweet Orange and ProPack kits have recently entered the market and are rapidly gaining in popularity. Aditya Sood and colleagues take a look at advancements in the…

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The evolution of Zortob

Zortob didn't make big headlines when it first appeared a little over a year ago, but a new generation of the malware hitting the lab's honeypots prompted Dong Xie to take a closer look.

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Yesterday’s solutions to today’s problems

Martin Lee (Symantec)

‘The collection of detailed statistics, their interpretation and analysis, combined with the desire to improve society, resolved many of the problems of the industrial revolution. The same approaches can be used today to end the high-risk work…

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Australia signs cybercrime treaty

Australia becomes latest country to sign the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime.

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