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July 2008 - Posts

How potentially unwanted software finds a way into our computers

Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:00 PM by mmpc
I was talking yesterday with a fellow researcher about the Win32/Danmec trojan and the way it uses SQL injection to extend its bot network when I just realized that I was actually looking through some of the injected webpages. I decided to find more about Read More...
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The Power of SSE

Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:30 PM by mmpc
In the beginning, there was the CPU. It supported only integer operations. Then came the FPU, which supported floating-point operations. For a long time, that was all we had. Then came MMX (which is commonly said to stand for MultiMedia eXtensions, but Read More...
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4th of July Greetings

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 4:00 PM by mmpc
Aside from the Storm Worm , a new 4th of July malware is currently being spammed around. Below is a sample of the greeting card mail: Clicking on the link will not lead you to greetings.com but rather to a malware download site with a filename july.exe Read More...
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What’s travelling on the wire

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:55 PM by mmpc
Just a few days ago we installed a new network protocol analyzer in our lab here in Dublin. It was late when the configuration was done so we just fired it up and let it run until the next day. After all we didn't expect to get much attention in the beginning. Read More...
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