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False positives are alarms for non-specific files or behavior that is flagged as malicious, while in fact there were no bad intentions present.
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| What could have happened when you find Facebook posts or messages that you didn’t post or send? And what are the actions you can take to prevent further abuse?
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| Digital forensics is different from cyber-security as it deals with the problem when it’s too late for precautions. It’s the science of figuring out what happened just before and after a breach.
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The final episode of our adware series talks specifically about the tools that we use in identifying adware and the places where it lurks on a system.
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This post is intended to make readers aware of the existence and use of environmental variables. A windows feature that is often only known to programmers and other advanced users. Categories: 101
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The hosts file is the internet variant of a personal phonebook. We discuss a few malware variants that replace or change that phonebook, so you end up calling the wrong sites. The ones they want you to call.Categories: Cybercrime
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We show two examples of HTA induced infections we have seen recently. Nothing fancy, but feel free to consider it a general warning, that malware authors are expanding the number of file extensions they are using, to spread their payload.Categories: Cy… Continue reading Surfacing HTA infections
Sinkholes and watering holes are two words not automatically associated with computer security, yet they are in use to describe two tactics that are used in this field. Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: Pieter Arntzsinkholesinkholesthe mo… Continue reading Intentional security holes
Typosquatting is a term you may have seen when reading about internet scams. In essence it relies on users making typing errors (typos) when entering a site or domain name.Categories: Cybercrime
Social engineeringTags: fakePieter Arntzthe more you kno… Continue reading Explained: typosquatting