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Security 101: Attack Vectors, Part 1

16

Nov

2011

In the first part of this series, we discussed the entry points that an intruder could use to attack our “building,” our metaphor for network security. In the next few posts, we shall focus on the next level: attack vectors. If vulnerabilities are the entry points, then attack vectors are the ways attackers can launch […]

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CVE-2011-3402 Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

08

Nov

2011

When Duqu, which most believed to be written by the same group that wrote Stuxnet, was originally uncovered, the infection vector was still unknown; how did the machines get compromised in the first place? That changed when the Hungarian research lab, CrySys, announced that it had found the dropper which was a Word file that […]

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Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A

31

Oct

2011

Our description for Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A is now online. Tsunami is a Mac OS X backdoor with bot functionality. The bot is capable of participating in DDoS attacks, and in fact, one variant attempts to connect to an IRC server with “anonops” in its name — as in (Internet collective) Anonymous Ops. Because there is no obvious […]

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