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Have you ever wondered how anti-virus signatures are created?
In his article An Intro to Creating Anti-Virus Signatures the author describes three types of signature detections:
Though the article focusses primarily on Microsoft portable executable files like .exe, .dll and .sys, it would be possible …
George Hotz alias geohot released his playstation 3 exploit to the public. It gains control of the hypervisor which could be used to run pirated PS3 games and game backups on the hacked machine.
You can find more details in his blog and also an article which explains what the …
The german antivirus company Avira has published statistics about file extensions used by malware in URLs that may occur in emails or infected websites for January 2010.
The most common extension used by malware is .exe (53.29%) followed by no file extension (18.99%) and the third place goes …
There are two major vulnerabilities which were recently discovered in the PowerDNS Recursor (all versions up to and including 3.1.7.1) which can lead to a full system compromise and/or cache poisoning.
These vulnerabilities were addressed and resulted in the PowerDNS Reucursor 3.1.7.2 release …
