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Multi-platform Backdoor with Intel OS X Binary

Karmina wrote about a malware targeting multiple operating systems on Monday.

The Mac OS X sample that time was a PowerPC binary. Yesterday, we received an Intel x86 version in our backend systems which appears to have been used in a similar type of attack.

Nothing fancy. This time the sample uses the server …

DNSChanger – Last Call on Cleanup

Here we are. It’s the last call on DNSChanger cleanup. On Monday, the Fbi-run replacement DNS servers are coming down because the court-ordered extension is coming to an end, and your systems may using these servers for resolution. There are a set of sites that may unreliably help you identify whether your machine or …

Visa looks into Eastern European security breach

Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans.

Although Visa hasn’t disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised.

CEC Bank said in a statement that “a number” of cards …

The Effectiveness of DNSBLs in an IPv6 world

It is certain that the future of the Internet communication belongs to the Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6. Even though some people might think it is new, it’s been around for quite a while; the first document describing basics of IPv6 (RFC 2460) was published in 1998. The protocol has evolved since, and it …

TaskManager Runs on 64-bit Excel

I’m releasing a new version of TaskManager.xls that runs on Excel 2010 64-bit too. The previous version ran on 64-bit Windows, provided you used Excel 32-bit. But this new version runs on both implementations of Excel.

TaskManager_V0_1_0.zip (https)MD5: 5ED2AB6036CA94FAC7DEE5352718D07CSHA256: EBCF4832C4DBAB0AFE778E19423EBB56CA4644DA1FDB5B2EB1BB4C27A26DB18C

Skype protocol cracked – what happens next?

A chap by the name of Efim Bushmanov has just published a claim that he has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol.

He hasn’t reversed it completely, and he hasn’t yet created any Skype-compatible alternative software, but that’s the stated goal of his work so far:

While “Wall Street Journal” makes politics and skype today’s …