Internet banking sites and their use of TLS… and SSLv3… and SSLv2?!, (Fri, Dec 13th)

Although SSLv3 has been considered obsolete and insecure for a long time, a large number of web servers still support its use. And even though the numbers are much lower, some servers on the web support SSLv2 to this day as well. And, as it turns out, this is true even when it comes to web servers hosting internet banking portals…

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Code & Data Reuse in the Malware Ecosystem, (Thu, Dec 12th)

In the past, I already had the opportunity to give some “security awareness” sessions to developers. One topic&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;that was always debated is the reuse of existing code. Indeed, for a developer, it&#;x26;#;39;s tempting to not reinvent the wheel when somebody already wrote a piece of code that achieves the expected results. From a gain of time perspective, it&#;x26;#;39;s a win for the developers who can focus on other code. Of course, this can have side effects and introduce bugs, backdoors, etc… but it&#;x26;#;39;s not today&#;x26;#;39;s topic. Malware developers are also developers and have the same behavior. Code reuse has been already discussed several times[1]. For example, tools exist to detect cloned or reused code in the IDA disassembler[2][3].

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