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Old dogs learn new tricks

2010-09-10

Fake antimalware software has become an increasing problem for end users and corporations. The creators of these rogue applications are able to earn easy money and are constantly searching for new ways to exploit their victims. A new technique has recently been seen. We shall look at this in more detail in this security article, and attempt to point to some general considerations regarding this type of software and malware in general.

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Microsoft Security Bulletins advance notification

Information about Microsoft's upcoming security bulletins.

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Critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Reader version 9.3.4, Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions.

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Update to Mozilla Firefox solves several critical vulnerabilities

2010-09-08

A new version of the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox is available. This version corrects several critical vulnerabilities.

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Latest blog entries

Real world vs. Theory: 1 - 0

2010-09-03
In theory this should have been impossible: Cracking an encryption key, which is based on quantum cryptography. The rationale is that one cannot interfere with a quantum system without disturbing it i...
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Who is connected to whom?

2010-08-30
I am currently working on a few presentations that I will give in the upcoming weeks. One of them will touch correlating data and actually is giving some interesting information. Using some older data...
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DLL HiJacking… And now what?!?

2010-08-26
Lots have been written already about it, so I will keep it short on what it exactly involves. Basically, whenever an application wants to load a DLL, it can do that absolute (using a full pathname as...
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