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I had that idea!
Today I stumbled upon the paper Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud. It talks about running lightweight processes on the hosts which ship files to be scanned to a network server which scans them and gives the clean/infected verdict. I had the exact same idea around the same time :-). Some benefits of…
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Don’t overthink software security
While reading the trapkit blog, my attention was drawn to the following post: Commercial usage of ScoopyNG. ScoopyNG, in case you didn’t know about it before, is a proof of concept tool to detect VMWare. In the post the author of ScoopyNG details how the makers of a commercial product (Atempo Time Navigator) use the…
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A portable AntiVirus collection
Over at the GSD blog I found a nice collection of descriptions on how to create portable anti-viruses. VIPRE would fit nicely in the collection, however I wanted to do a quick description on how to do this with BitDefender (I’m doing this from memory, so some details might be wrong!): Get the free edition…
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Mixed links
Conficker is using a few tricks to make reversing harder Metasploit (and other security sites) are being hit by DDoS. Some interesting thoughts: Use DNS to mitigate the attack (if the bots follow DNS, you can simply point them to 127.0.0.1, if not, you simply move servers to an other IP range and point DNS…
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PHPBB hack
I saw the news on the Kaspersky blog: phpbb.com was hacked. Fortunately (?) the hack wasn’t done trough PHPBB, rather trough a vulnerable installation of PHPList. BTW, the Kaspersky blog gets it wrong: the hack wasn’t because register_globals was enable, but rather because PHPList contained code to emulate the functionality of register_globals. More info: The…
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Security charlatans
Why do people go to charlatans? Because they make them feel good about themselves Because they will make a big effort to speak in a language which the customer understands and can relate to (even if the things said are not-that-true) Because sometimes they (the charlatans) get to a level where they themselves believe that…