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Oct 14, 2016
Five examples and some suggestions In a brief article on Symantec “Security Response” blog, Shaun Aimoto explains some techniques used by malware creators to evade security apps analysis. Packing Android packers are able to encrypt an original classes.dex file, use… read more »
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Oct 13, 2016
Malware using obfuscation to avoid detection, and the possibilities are quite endless Obfuscation is a technique that makes binary and textual data unreadable and/or hard to understand. Software developers sometimes employ obfuscation techniques because they don’t want their programs being reverse-engineered… read more »
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Oct 12, 2016
Simple and well coded Матрёшка is a steganography tool written in Python, useful to hide and encrypt images or text in the least significant bits of pixels in an image using HMAC-SHA256 to authenticate the hidden data. It’s a simple but… read more »
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Oct 11, 2016
For Linux, Windows, OSX, Android and iOs Cloud storage is very useful, but for really important/private stuff, a best practice could be adding of a further encryption layer, perhaps with a cross-platform solution. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png A simply method could be use Truecrypt… read more »
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Oct 10, 2016
Pretty simple, according to recent researches! A group of the researchers from the Iswatlab team at the University of Sannio demonstrated how is easy to create a mobile malware that eludes antivirus solutions. The research was conducted by Corrado Aaron… read more »
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Oct 7, 2016
Actually lasted longer than the company itself! An auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland still uses a Commodore 64 to run its operations: a lesson to learn about consumerism! This image was posted on Commodore USA’s Facebook page, with this comment:… read more »
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Oct 6, 2016
From HDS to RAW In a previous post i have explained how to convert a VMWare disk image (VMDK) into a RAW format useful for import into a forensics tool like Autopsy. The same method can be used to convert a… read more »
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Oct 5, 2016
Really useful for penetration testing purposes! If a program has been written in order to keep in memory some credentials in clear text, this can be a security risk. When you make a security assessment, it will be useful a… read more »