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Malicious code 'could hide in Windows Registry'
News Miscreants could hide their malicious software on a Windows PC by using overly long registry keys, security experts have warned. Some antivirus and anti-spyware products scan the registry for malicious programs, but this new weakness allows hackers...
[August 30, 2005, 9:40]
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology review
Reviews Malicious Cryptography is more or less the result. Malicious Cryptography is the sort of book you'd give to a security expert who'd like to be a little more paranoid. Yet that's what Columbia University student Adam Young figured out how to do, as...
[August 23, 2005, 16:35]
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology
Member Review Malicious Cryptography outlines how a virus could contain and use a cryptographic public key, and speculates on the kind of attacks that might use this method.
[August 23, 2005, 16:26]
Malicious Code Protector: A New Approach for Detecting and Blocking Buffer Over?ow Attacks
White Papers To solve this problem Check Point developed Malicious Code Protector, a patent-pending technology that provides a new approach for detecting and blocking buffer overflow attacks. Unlike previous detection solutions that rely on a defined attack...
[March 2, 2005, 2:00]
Malicious mobile e-mail warning in Japan
News Japanese wireless phone giant NTT DoCoMo warned the company's 24 million mobile Internet service subscribers Thursday that a malicious e-mail could be making its way to their phones. Viruses and malicious e-mails also are becoming a way of life for...
[June 15, 2001, 9:25]
'Survivor' site contains malicious code
News The site, owned by a party that has licensed the word "survivor" in a top-level US domain -- not linked to the television network -- today contained a smorgasbord of malicious code embedded in HTML scripts.
[May 13, 2004, 10:35]
China leads Asia in malicious online activity
News China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year. According to Symantec's biannual internet security threat report released on Wednesday, China topped the...
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
The Impact of Malicious Code on Windows Vista
White Papers It presents metrics derived from this framework, security considerations applicable to Windows Vista, and a high-level view of what the future of malicious code may bring. This paper discusses the development of a framework to measure Windows Vista...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Security products may miss malicious files
News A flaw in several virus scanners could let a malicious file evade detection, a security researcher has warned. By adding some data to a file, an attacker could trick virus scanners into letting a malicious executable file pass through, security...
[November 1, 2005, 15:40]
Google removes malicious advertising links
News Google identified and cancelled AdWords accounts displaying ads that re-directed users to malicious sites", a company representative wrote on a corporate blog on Thursday. The malicious links appeared after people searched for terms related to the...
[April 30, 2007, 9:21]
The Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool: Progress Made, Trends Observed
White Papers Microsoft Corp.has made significant investments over the past few years in research into malicious software (or "Malware") and in developing technology to help customers mitigate the security risk that it creates.
[September 20, 2007, 23:53]
Defense-in-Depth Protection Against Malicious Software-Level 200
White Papers Malicious software has become increasingly advanced; worms and viruses can propagate more quickly and evade detection more effectively. This session describes how a defense-in-depth approach to antivirus solution design can help protect various...
[January 7, 2005, 23:00]
Strider HoneyMonkeys: Active, Client-Side Honeypots for Finding Malicious Websites
White Papers A serious threat is emerging on the Internet where malicious Web sites exploit browser vulnerabilities to install malicious software. Traditional honeypots are typically server-side, which passively draw attacks from malicious clients.
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
The Evolving Threat: Combat Training for the New Era of Malicious Code
White Papers The malicious code used in modern attacks has more devastating consequences than the headline-making worms and viruses of the previous era. Many existing protection systems are inadequately prepared to stop new forms of malicious code.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Cyber-commerce threatened by malicious code
News For anyone browsing the Net, opening up a Java applet or ActiveX control could result in malicious mobile code attacking files and wiping out systems. According to Alison Taylor, spokeswoman for Finjan this could have major implications not only...
[October 27, 1998, 15:02]
Flaw lets malicious Web pages attack Windows
News A vulnerability in all versions of Windows could allow attackers to use a malicious Web site or HTML email message to trap victims and take control of their PCs, warned Microsoft. Second, exploiting such flaws through Web pages requires that the...
[March 20, 2003, 8:21]
Microsoft Webcast: Security Series (Part 5 of 8): Protecting Data From Malicious Software (Level 200)
White Papers A major concern for all IT organizations is the detection and control of malicious software, or malware. The presenter of this webcast shows how Windows Defender provides antispyware protection for consumers and small companies, while Microsoft...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Securing Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems From Selfish and Malicious Behavior
White Papers In such systems, selfish nodes (e.g.free riders) and malicious nodes (e.g. This could potentially allow selfish and malicious peers to exhaust the system's available upload bandwidth. This paper presents a flexible framework for throttling...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Application of Data Mining Based Malicious Code Detection Techniques for Detecting New Spyware
White Papers Schultz has presented a data-mining framework that detects new, previously unseen malicious executables. Over the past few years, a new computer security problem has arisen, Spyware. Anti-Virus techniques cannot deal with spyware, due to their...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
SpyProxy: Execution-Based Detection of Malicious Web Content
White Papers However, the authors approach faces challenges, such as achieving good interactive performance, and limitations, such as defending against malicious Web content that contains non-determinism. This paper explores the use of execution-based Web...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
