Vulnerabilities and exploits

Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared in the virtual world.

This week it’s Twitter’s turn to host an attack targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it’s a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with…

Anyone who’s been reading tech news lately may have noticed items about a Kris Kaspersky

Quite a long time ago I contacted Microsoft regarding what I thought was a XSS vulnerability in IE. Microsoft disagreed, preferring to call it a ‘feature’.

We have discovered one interesting technique to hide malicious URLs from researchers.

The Race to Zero is not a questionable affair – no questions about it…it is unethical.

I love numbers…

It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly

A few days ago we started getting messages from users saying that their antivirus software had started detecting Trojans in the Flashget directory.

Online surveillance still under discussion

This annual report provides an overview the evolution of malware, adware and potentially malicious programs in 2007, and compares this data to that of 2006.

This latest piece of research from Kaspersky Lab examines the security of wifi networks in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

Yesterday I looked into a case where somebody had gotten a nice Christmas present – a new MP3 player

This paper presents a method to automatically separate and block those networks in real time. The method uses a statistical approach exploiting the fact that computers in a botnet have to have some similarities in their behavior.

Online antivirus services such as VirusTotal and VirusScan have been around for a few years now