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Dramatic Spike in the Number of Email Messages Containing Malware
Kelly Conley @ 7:14 PM 10-06-2008The trend of spam messages containing URL links to malicious code and/or carrying malicious payloads has dramatically spiked since May of this year. This trend is the focus of our October State of ...[More ...]
Trojan.Silentbanker Adds Rootkit Functionality
Liam O Murchu @ 3:14 PM 10-06-2008
Trojan.Silentbanker has been in the wild since late last year; however, the most recent release of this Trojan has had some interesting features added to it. Namely, the most recent ve...[More ...]
Cutting Edge – By Engineers, For Engineers
Tom Thomassen @ 8:51 PM 10-03-2008Symantec's Cutting Edge 2008 conference closed on Friday, October 3rd. As the Chair of this year's Cutting Edge conference, hosted each year by the Office of the CTO, I can say it was a wonderful o...[More ...]
The (File)Name Game!
Elia Florio @ 6:38 PM 10-03-2008Digging into our honeypots and spam-trap systems to look for malicious attachments is always an interesting exercise. We can identify different spam campaigns and map together malicious binaries...[More ...]
How We Win – Openly
Rob Clyde @ 10:10 PM 10-02-2008Here at Cutting Edge we have a lot of exciting technological developments and innovations to share. At the top of the list for me is the Symantec Open Collaborative Architecture (OCA), which pre...[More ...]
It's All About Reputation
Carey Nachenberg @ 1:54 PM 10-02-2008In a nutshell, Symantec's new approach to detecting threats automatically derives re...[More ...]
Losing Touch with Fingerprinting
Carey Nachenberg @ 10:35 AM 10-01-2008This year's Cutting Edge, Symantec's internal conference "for engineers, by engineers," promises to be an interesting one. Why? The last few years have brought serious challenges to the d...[More ...]
Reactive Phishing Defenses – Part 1
Antonio Forzieri @ 5:49 PM 09-30-2008A "phishing kit" is small piece of software usually written in PHP, HTML, and JavaScript that mimics legitimate portals (for example, financial institution websites) in order to acquir...[More ...]
Did You Catch Some Phish?
Davide Veneziano @ 11:22 PM 09-29-2008The evolution of a phishing attack is quite straightforward. At first, the fraudsters compromise a vulnerable server and deploy a package called a "phishing kit," which contains a clone a...[More ...]
Risk Management and Data Protection
TimBur @ 3:02 PM 09-18-2008"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
Warren Buffet
The idea of risk manageme...[More ...]
