This week, our team had the opportunity to test Google’s recently released web application scanner known as SKIPFISH. Touted as an active reconnaissance tool, SKIPFISH claims to present an interactive site map for a targeted site by performing a myriad of recursive crawls and discretionary based probes. The map is then notated with the output [...]
Symantec is reporting that the mighty Zeus bot network is getting more capability and powerful new features. Read a summary of their thoughts here. Among the new features seems to be a focus on Windows 7 and Vista systems as opposed to XP. New mechanisms for random file and folder names in an attempt to [...]
I know that recently I’ve been spending a lot of time talking about Windows antivirus. Often, I am quite disappointed at the effectiveness of most antivirus tools. Many security researchers, and my own research on the subject, estimate antivirus to be effective less than half of the time. That said, I still believe that antivirus [...]
McAfee’s Anti-Virus update for today (5958 DAT April 21, 2010) is causing systems to be stuck in an infinite reboot cycle. If your systems have not updated yet, it is highly recommended to prevent them from doing so, disable automatic updates and any pending update tasks. The issue comes from the update detecting a false [...]
Threat modeling is a powerful technique that helps characterize higher level threats and separates them into more manageable sub-threats that can be addressed. Threat modeling can help an organization discover the core issue that lies beneath a high level threat, such as a denial of service (DoS). There are different approaches toward threat modeling. One [...]
The ubiquitous PDF, it just seems to be everywhere. With all of the recent hype surrounding a variety of exploits that have come to light in the last couple of weeks, many of our customers are asking about how to defend against malicious PDF documents. This is both a simple and a complex question. The [...]
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