Thursday, August 25th, 2011 MS Security Essentials is already detecting the killapache perl script that's floating around the Full Disclosure mailing list. This is one more reason that I love this AV program and strongly recommend it for all Windows' users.
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way.Source:https://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/08/10/can-we-believe-our-eyes.aspx
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010 I just noticed that I have 13 different virtual machines installed on my home VirtualBox installation. It seems like a lot but there are many more that I would love to install and play with. This is just a variety of flavors I've needed in the past for "testing" ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010 BackTrack 4 Final has now been released and aside from the many bug fixes, this version includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository and custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack.Download:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance.The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory space that's tightly locked down. The ...
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