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By all measures, Java is the current title holder for the lowest hanging fruit in computer security. (And by Java, we mean JRE and its various browser plugins.) It wasn’t always so. How did it happen? Let’s review some highlights in the history of low hanging fruit. From 2004 to 2008: Attacks shifted from Windows […]

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Today, let’s get our hands dirty by analyzing an “interesting” sample that I found in-the-wild earlier today. There are multiple interesting parts of this sample; the first one is that they don’t really hide/obfuscate their stuff. They left it in plain text, and exposed the contents of their server. (By accident, I think.)Let’s move to […]

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Conficker is one of the most significant threat families facing organizations worldwide today; its initial impact along with its continued obstinacy shows that clearly. In the fourth quarter of 2011 – three years after its initial release – it attempted to infect just over 1.7 million computers. Conficker’s persistence is illustrated not only by the […]

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