Analysis: Spam in July 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

The percentage of spam in email traffic in July was up only 0.1 percentage points and averaged 71.2%

Analysis: Anti-decompiling techniques in malicious Java Applets 19 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm

Step 1: How this started While I was investigating the Trojan.JS.Iframe.aeq case one of the files dropped by the Exploit Kit was an Applet exploiting a vulnerability:

Blog: Android 4.3 and SELinux 17 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm

Not many weeks ago Google released a new revision of its flagship mobile operating system, Android 4.3. Although some say that this time updates have been quite scarce, from a security perspective the...

Blog: Discussing cybercrime laws in Sao Paulo 17 Aug 2013 | 03:14 am

This week I was invited to speak at the Fifth Congress on Cybercrime, an event promoted by the São Paulo State Federation of Commerce (FECOMERCIO)

Blog: Beware the scammers’ crocodile tears! 16 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm

Blog: 22nd USENIX Security Symposium 15 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm

Here we are, attending once again USENIX Security Symposium (22nd edition) this time organized in Washington DC, US. This conference is known to be a leading forum to discuss and present novel and sci...

Analysis: IT Threat Evolution: Q2 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized a total of 983 051 408 threats in the second quarter of 2013.

Blog: CTF in DEFCON 21 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm

DEFCON21 - one of the world-largest conferences of hackers - was held in Las Vegas from 2nd-4th August. About 15,000 attendees joined the event from different countries in the world seeking a place to...

Blog: GCM in malicious attachments 14 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm

Android OS offers an interesting service known as Google Cloud Messaging, or GCM. This service allows small (up to 4 KB) messages to be sent via the Google server from their mobile devices in JSON for...

Blog: NSAccess Control Lists 14 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am

Last week, I attended the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University in NYC. This event brought together participants from government, the private sector and academia. The closin...