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AV engine detection techniques vs the evolution of malware: cat-and-mouse game

Jul

2013

Get rid of cliches: “Most of anti-virus software products detect malware pieces only through simple checksums. This is often the case for the anti-virus engines which are integrated into network gateways.”People mainly believe that the main reason is that network gateways have limited resources to process the sheer amount of data exchanged through it “in […]

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Security 101: Attack Vectors Take Advantage of User Interaction

Feb

2012

Welcome back to Security 101. Our New Year’s recess is over, and it’s time to offer another lesson. So far we have discussed vulnerabilities and some types of low-interaction attack vectors. In this lesson we shall continue with attack vectors that require medium or high levels of user interaction to succeed.These attack vectors are more […]

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Security 101: Vulnerabilities, Part 1

Oct

2011

Welcome back to Security 101. The topic of today’s blog is vulnerabilities. In our frequent McAfee Labs Threat Advisories you see the term vulnerability in almost every item. “A vulnerability has been found…” or “A vulnerability in some versions of…” are commonplace. What is a vulnerability? A vulnerability is a program bug that under certain […]

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