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Advanced Payload Architectures for Future Telecommunication Satellites
White Papers Both types of service will require innovative payload architectures that will only be realized by new technologies. Long term (post-2012, say), satellite operators anticipate a market for broadband multimedia services via satellite, providing that...
[November 30, 2006, 0:00]
Transport Layer Identification of P2P Traffic
White Papers Indeed, access to user payload is often rendered impossible by one of these factors, inhibiting trustworthy estimation of P2P traffic growth and dynamics. This paper develops a systematic methodology to identify P2P flows at the transport layer, i...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Apple users targeted by IM Trojan
Talkback User intervention is the end result of the worm's payload (being the attachment). If you do your research, you will find that it is quite common for worms to carry attachments as their payload. Leap-A has the ability to self-propagate.
[March 8, 2006, 5:20]
Compiling PCRE to FPGA for Accelerating SNORT IDS
White Papers Deep Payload Inspection systems like SNORT and BRO utilize regular expression for their rules due to their high expressibility and compactness. The SNORT IDS system uses the PCRE Engine for regular expression matching on the payload.
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
SqlFar
Downloads SqlFar is a new type of archiving tool allowing users to add/remove files to and from a portable SQLite database; while encoding data access and other payload descriptive parameters, We call it The Smarter Zipper Upper The SqlFar User Interface...
[May 30, 2007, 12:53]
New Magistr worm at large on the Net
News Like the original worm, Magistr.B features a payload that overwrites hard drives with garbage, erases CMOS and flashes the BIOS on the infected system, rendering the computer unusable. A few viruses take the mailing lists from an infected computer...
[September 5, 2001, 9:56]
Klez virus set to wipe itself out
News The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload on the sixth day of March, May, September and November, erasing 14 different types of files, including Word documents and HTML files.
[September 6, 2002, 10:16]
Performance Analysis of Information Hiding
White Papers The amount of information to be hidden is called the payload. This paper presents a theoretical performance analysis of this information hiding problem in terms of payload, detection error rate, SNR, bandwidth of the watermarking channel, and...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Broadband satellite avoids crash and burn
News Among the more nervous spectators was Arianespace chief executive Jean-Yves Le Gall, who witnessed a similar launch go terribly wrong on 11 December, when an Ariane 5 space rocket brought its payload crashing back to earth just minutes after take...
[December 18, 2002, 10:48]
Security firm warns of Chernobyl resurrection
News The variant activates its payload on the 2nd of every month. The original strain, first detected in 1998, activates its payload on the 26th of April, the date of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The viruses contain a very dangerous payload, whose...
[December 2, 2002, 14:10]
Government warns of IPsec VPN flaw
News The flaw, which NISCC rated as 'high risk', makes it possible for an attacker to intercept IP packets travelling between two IPsec devices and modify the encapsulation security payload - a sub-protocol that encrypts the data being transported.
[May 12, 2005, 14:05]
SirCam to target Europe in new attack
News But the file-deleting payload is only programmed to infect PCs configured with the D/M/Y date format. Antivirus experts at Sophos have dismissed fears of a 16 October attack, claiming that a bug in the virus author's code will prevent the payload...
[October 16, 2001, 11:58]
Babylonia virus loses its home page
News The "payload" is not serious: The program does not attempt to delete or copy user files, and so far the virus has been transmitted principally in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms. Second, the author can later choose to change the virus and add a...
[December 9, 1999, 9:59]
The return of Code Red
News After Code Red.F installs itself and its payload on Chinese systems, it sleeps for two or four days before it activates. The original Code Red (now known as Code Red I) was designed to produce a distributed denial of service attack on the...
[March 24, 2003, 10:23]
2001: The year of the virus
News This more destructive variant attacks the same vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) servers, but incorporates the added payload of a back door Trojan, which could allow a hacker to gain control of or access the infected...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Latest variant of Downadup worm circulating
News Instead, it now checks for a specific pattern in the incoming shellcode and for a URL to an updated payload," said Microsoft, which is offering a $250,000 (£172,000) reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is...
[February 24, 2009, 8:48]
MyLife variant viruses spawned over Easter
News This virus fixed bugs that plagued the original worm, MyLife.a (w32.mylife.a@mm), and besides emailing copies of itself to everyone included in the Windows address book, MyLife.b executed its file-destroying payload whenever an infected computer...
[April 2, 2002, 14:01]
'Survivor' site contains malicious code
News While antivirus vendors only rank the script Trojans as moderate or low risks, they may be designed to prompt a computer accessing the site to automatically download a secondary payload from another location on the Internet.
[May 13, 2004, 10:35]
Microsoft refutes claims that Nimda infected its FrontPage
News For a PC to be infected by a server, we have to have the script and the payload, but there was no payload on the page. Microsoft refuted claims Wednesday that the main Web site for its FrontPage software had been infected by the Nimda virus...
[September 20, 2001, 14:44]
Code for MSBlast variant posted online
News According to Starnes, the published attack could easily be turned into another MSBlast or Code Red type "blended attack", which is where the worm has two distinct modules, one for spreading and the other containing a payload: "We have started...
[February 17, 2004, 11:20]
