On May 28, our colleagues at The Microsoft Security Response Center released advisory 971778 which elaborated on a new vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow effecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. You can obtain more details on how...

Microsoft Security Essentials is a new, no-cost, anti-malware solution for genuine Windows PC consumers that provides real-time protection against viruses, spyware and other malicious threats. It is a lightweight, effective and modern anti-malware which...

Recently, Marian and Andrei presented a paper at the CARO Workshop about PDF vulnerabilities and exploits related to them. As we presented in our latest Security Intelligence Report , there was an increase in the use of these exploits, and the trend...

No-one who knows what they're talking about would say that writing a debugger is easy. It's certainly made harder when the platform offers so many opportunities for things to go wrong. Here are two examples. CreateToolhelp32Snapshot This function...

So far, it seems that a number of known attacks on RFID devices can be generally sorted into three broad categories, that is; cloning an RFID tag, unathorised modification of an RFID tag, using an RFID tag to mount an attack on an RFID back...

This month, MSRT takes on another prevalent rogue family. This one is called Win32/InternetAntivirus and, although it has dabbled with the names General Antivirus and Personal Antivirus* , it is usually easy to recognise by the moniker Internet Antivirus...

An RFID system is based around a reader and a tag. A tag stores information, whereas an RFID reader retrieves or modifies information stored on the tag. To transmit this information through the air, both devices use high frequency electric current oscillations...