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June 2009 - Posts

Online Game Password Stealers Riding with 0-day DirectShow Exploits

Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:55 PM by mmpc
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 Read More...
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Microsoft Security Essentials Beta Announced

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:15 PM by mmpc
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 Read More...
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PDF E-ducation

Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:20 AM by mmpc
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 keeps Read More...
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Bugging the Debuggers

Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 3:30 PM by mmpc
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 was Read More...
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Radio-Frequency Identification devices, is infection a reality? (Part 3 - Security)

Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:45 PM by mmpc
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 end application, Read More...
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Internet Antivirus Pro is "unable" (to detect any real malware)

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:10 AM by mmpc
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 Read More...
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Radio-Frequency Identification devices, is infection a reality? (Part 2 - Hardware)

Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 2:30 PM by mmpc
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 Read More...
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