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Nitol Botnet: You Will Never Break The Chain

Nitol versus Michelangelo: the supply chain is much more than the production line.

AMTSO's New Direction (and some resources updates)

AMTSO’s discussions on its own new directions, and updates to its testing-related resources.

Free Anti-virus: Worth Every Penny?

Why you really might prefer to pay for AV security. Free Fall or Free-for-All?

VirusTotal, Useful Engines, and Useful AV

The paper by Julio Canto and myself on the use and misuse of multi-scanner malware-checking resources like VirusTotal is now available.

Great Expectations and the Grim Reaver

WPS, Reaver, and what you can expect from anti-virus by way of vulnerability scanning

Facebook Likes and cold-call scams

Many companies and sites offering support are basing their appeal to visitors to their web sites on bona fides that are pretty difficult to verify.

Virtualization & Conferencing

David Harley is taking part in the keynote session (11.00-12.00 EST) on “APT: Real Threat or Just Hype” at US Infosecurity’s Virtual Conference on November 8th.

New white paper & presentations, and an SC Mag article

A new conference paper, two conference presentations, and an article for SC Magazine.

Not all Facebook threats are hoaxes…

…the finding that 52% of respondents felt that increased use by their employees of social media had resulted in an increase in attacks from malware seems to me both interesting and significant…

Facebook, the natural home of the hoax

You may have noticed a lot of excitement about Facebook's latest attempts to prune your privacy, and you'll probably see more commentary on this blog. Here's something a little different: a good old-fashioned chainletter that seems to be flourishing despite all its logical flaws. The story is at SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner, to which I

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