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FakeAV online scanner scam still in the wild – Let’s have a look at the possible evolution of some famous FakeAV scanner scams

07

Dec

2011

The FakeAV business faced a decrease in the last few months. Due to federal law enforcement activities against the FakeAV industry and some major search engine optimizations to prevent blackhat seo poisoning, less infections of FakeAV programs were reported in the last five months. Despite those measures, FakeAV is still a serious threat to everyone […]

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ROP chain for Windows 8

26

Oct

2011

Shortly after Microsoft’s release of Windows 8 Developer Preview, I read an article mentioning the mechanism to prevent ROP (Return Oriented Programming) on Windows 8 and the way to bypass it. Accordingly, I have experimented and provided a ROP chain which could be used for any ROP exploit codes on Windows 8. Let’s talk about […]

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Microsoft reissues update for Win XP/2003 for DigiNotar certificate revocation

20

Sep

2011

Microsoft had to reissue an update for users of Windows XP and Windows 2003 today related to the compromise of certificate authority DigiNotar. It was not related to further hacking though, it appears to be a quality assurance SNAFU at the software giant. Microsoft has updated the known issues in security advisory 2607712 to refer […]

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