The third and last day of the VB 2011 Conference was as interesting as the other two, in both corporate and technical tracks. The technical track was dedicated to exploits, Java, packers, Flash analysis and others. All topics definitely interesting and useful for the fellow security researchers. The corporate track was for me at least, […]
Firesheep You may have noticed that the downloadable binary of the Firesheep add-on works only with version 3.6 of Firefox. The main branch is still incompatible with Firefox 6, but the latest Firesheep branch, (firefox5) remains very active and contributors are working toward making Firesheep compatible with newer versions of Firefox. I was able to compile this branch […]
W32.Xpaj.B is one of the most complex and sophisticated file infectors Symantec has encountered. In an older blog post, Piotr Krysiuk calls it an “upper crust file infector.” He describes several different approaches that the infector uses to increase the difficulty in detecting infected samples. The techniques W32.Xpaj.B uses to conceal itself within an executable […]
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