Fabio, our researcher%%1%% in Brazil, has noticed malware authors using an old trick to mask URLs. The trick involves specifying an IP address such as say, 66.102.13.19 (the IP address of google.com, borrowed from my colleague, Costin) in a numerical base other than base 10. The supported bases are octal…
PC Magazine%%1%% – Spyware researcher Ben Edelman details tests which show that, even after the user disables “Google Toolbar” using the IE Manage Add-ons feature, it continues to report on a user’s actions.
ThreatFire is dramatically different to traditional antivirus%%3%% software. Normal antivirus products usually need to have first identified and seen a threat before they can provide adequate protection against it. The protection is then provided via a signature or fingerprint update, which must first be written by an antivirus researcher.
A security%%1%% researcher shunned by the anti-virus community for violating its unwritten rules has attempted to turn the tables, erecting a Web service that virus writers could use to make their creations more stealthy and undetectable for longer periods of…