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Stock Price vs. Spam Keywords

Antivirus-Protection — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:51:53 +0000

As noted by Bloomberg on 25 September, Apple was valued at $267 billion, ahead of PetroChina’s $265.5 billion, becoming the world’s second-largest company in terms of market value. Furthermore, back to May this year, Apple had surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization to become the world’s top technology company. However, does Apple beat the rival Microsoft [...]

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October Patch Tuesday

Antivirus-Protection — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:06:32 +0000

Patch Tuesday has arrived again and this time we have a set of ten updates. Nine from Microsoft and one from Adobe. Nine of these potentially allow remote code execution and the tenth involves information disclosure. For the full list of of patches, please visit our Knowledge Base article. At present, all of these updates have been given [...]

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Malware abusing digital signatures: VB2010 presentation highlights

Antivirus-Protection — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:39:17 +0000

I recently presented my paper Want My Autograph? The use and abuse of digital signatures by malware at Virus Bulletin 2010. I will refrain from delving into the gory details of digital signatures heuristics that strongly indicate malware — those interested can refer to the paper for that information. I will however highlight one of [...]

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Malicious PDFs: A summary of my VB2010 presentation

Antivirus-Protection — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:23:34 +0000

Last week, I presented at VB2010 a talk that was well received in the room and on the wires. A number of people have requested copies of or links to my presentation and paper (thanks to Helen Martin of Virus Bulletin for permission). Reading presentations without the commentary is difficult and so I will expand [...]

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The Recent Burst of HTML Attachment Spam

Antivirus-Protection — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:33:57 +0000

During the last 4 months, SophosLabs has seen an explosion in the resurgence of HTML attachment spam. As shown in the following figure, it accounts for 8% of all the spam in the June and September, and about 2-3% in July, August and October. These malicious HTML attachments can be divided into two parts: malicious JavaScript [...]

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