posted in Reading material on Feb 27th, 2010
I found an intresting article on the symantec blog why the old pattern matching AV method fails more and more and how they face this situation. A recommended reading during a coffee break. Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on Virus Total We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. [...]
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posted in News & media on Jan 6th, 2010
Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Manager has been hit by a classic date bug and fell over at the end of the year, accepting no definition updates dated since then. Symantec have issued a statement, which states that: “An issue has been identified in the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) server whereby all types of SEP definition [...]
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posted in News & media, Stuff on Sep 4th, 2009
According to some news portals the SkypeTrojan was already found in the wild. It’s origin can not be determined and people start to speculate if and which government is responsible for this deployment. If you compare the characteristics Symantec describes on their page and the SkypeTrojan code similarities can not be denied. [PREDETERMINED FOLDER NAME]\[CALLER [...]
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