0×00: Preface
Media, kindly supported by AV “experts”, drawn apocalyptical vison of desctruction caused by stupid M$ Outlook / VisualBasic worm, called “ILOVEYOU”. Absurdal estimations - $10M lost for “defending the disease”, especially when you take a look at increasing with the speed of light value of AV companies market shares, made many people sick. Lame [...]

For those that didn’t see, there is a new all singing all dancing ‘light-weight’ Codec in town that is actually a trojan.
Indeed it’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing.
The zCodec software actually messes with your DNS settings.

Users looking for the latest and greatest video software may not just be in danger [...]

It’s good to see work on open source tools in the countermeasure department aswell as the attack and penetration arena.
It’s a shame since Snort and Nessus have gone semi-commercial.

I hope more people invest their time in good IDS, Firewall and IPS systems, I love things like IPCop and hope to see more products like HLBR.
HLBR [...]

This effort started quite a long time ago, I was just checking up to see how they were getting on, but there’s not much news of their progress.
perating under the theory that if you kill the head, the body will follow, a group of high-profile security researchers is ramping up efforts to find and disable [...]

Ethical debates are always interesting, and people have gotten in trouble lately for reverse engineering and various other branches of research.
This is a fairly old topic, but as I’m clearing out some old drafts, I still find it an interesting one.
There’s been an ongoing debate in security circles concerning how security researchers should disclose vulnerabilities [...]

Sometimes doing good can help bad things propogate, sometimes it’s good to consider the big picture and the repucussions of your charitable actions.
This is a case where such logic rings true.

Programs to send PCs to third world countries might inadvertently fuel the development of malware for hire scams, an anti-virus guru warns.
Eugene Kaspersky, head of [...]

Malware herders are speeding up, the first wave is already here for MS06-40.
It’s basically a variant of some old malware suited to the new vulnerability. Same old story then, same packer, technique, new exploit.
Same as the days of autorooters.
It’s basically the Mocbot trojan that was used in the Zotob worm attack in August 2005.

The first [...]

The shocking statistic first, “56% of consumers do not have active anti-virus on their PCs”, ok not that shocking but still a bit worrying. Allthough asking if your average user doesn’t protect themselves on the internet conjures up images of the pope squatting in the woods.

The basic F-Secure anti-virus product protects against viruses and [...]

F-Secure has an interesting new dynamic world map displaying the various threats and viral hotspots around the world. Viruses and antivirus software is always a big issue, especially for corporates.
Shows how things are heating up when it comes to viruses, malware, trojans and so on.

They make some nice antivirus software too.

Check it out:

F-Secure Worldmap
Pretty neat [...]

It’s gone round and round and round, now cars have Bluetooth, that they can get viruses like Cabir, I’m sorry but if an Anti-virus company like F-Secure can’t infect a car with a virus, I don’t have much hope for the others. The rumours came from a Lexus story in SCMagazine (The story is no [...]