Friday, July 18th, 2008
Today's blog will be about a tool called oSpy, written by Andre Vadla Ravnas. oSpy is a tool which helps in reverse-engineering windows software. To demonstrate the uses of this tool and how it helps with network traffic monitoring, I have used a random malware sample from our repository.
Source:
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/3135.aspx
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Malicious hackers beware: Computer security expert Joel Eriksson might already own your box.
Eriksson, a researcher at the Swedish security firm Bitsec, uses reverse-engineering tools to find remotely exploitable security holes in hacking software. In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities ...
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