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Dissecting Flash with EASE

07

Oct

2011

EASE stands for Experimental ActionScript Emulator, and besides being a pun of debatable quality, it is the in-house tool we at FortiGuard use to analyse malicious Flash samples, unpack obfuscated code (if applicable), and automatically detect heap spraying and JIT spraying (two techniques essential to bypass DEP/ASLR when exploiting a vulnerability). Adobe Flash being nearly […]

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Adobe September 2011 Patch Release

14

Sep

2011

In addition to today’s Microsoft updates, users of Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat software on both Windows and Apple systems need to update their software ASAP. Adobe released Bulletin APSB11-24, addressing at least thirteen memory corruption flaws, and several privilege escalation, logic flaw, and bypass issues. In today’s earlier post about Microsoft’s patched vulnerabilities, Excel was […]

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Defcon 2011 Talks – APT, Citrix Hacks, Amazon AMI Cloud Security

08

Aug

2011

APT is gaining much more press attention recently with RSA and Northrup Gruman intrusions making it into the news. A set of researchers from Taiwan presented their APT related data at “Balancing the pwn Trade Deficit”. Based on a known APT malware set, they developed methods for clustering the malware to identify and make sense […]

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