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The programming of General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has become a common way to take advantage of the great power available on video cards. The programs, known as ‘shaders’, can be used to implement many things, including the…
Read moreNeo Tan (Fortinet)
Kyle Yang (Fortinet)
The Pushdo botnet has been active in the wild since January 2007, with three main generations seen to date. Neo Tan and colleagues take an in-depth look at three different variants of a new, more advanced version of Pushdo’s second generation.
Read moreWe have seen viruses with binary components, viruses with script components, and viruses with binary components that drop script components. Now comes a virus whose binary component executes its script component directly in memory by using a binary…
Read moreBlackhole has been the major player in the exploit kit market for a while now, but the Sweet Orange and ProPack kits have recently entered the market and are rapidly gaining in popularity. Aditya Sood and colleagues take a look at advancements in the…
Read moreZortob didn't make big headlines when it first appeared a little over a year ago, but a new generation of the malware hitting the lab's honeypots prompted Dong Xie to take a closer look.
Read moreMartin Lee (Symantec)
‘The collection of detailed statistics, their interpretation and analysis, combined with the desire to improve society, resolved many of the problems of the industrial revolution. The same approaches can be used today to end the high-risk work…
Read moreAustralia becomes latest country to sign the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime.
Read moreEpic fail as convicted hacker enrolls in IT class for inmates.
Read moreIn the first part of this series Aleksander Czarnowski covered the background information needed to understand the principles of ARM shellcoding. In this follow-up article he moves on to dissect some previously crafted shellcode.
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