CrowdSource Tool Aims to Improve Automated Malware Analysis

When a new piece of malware surfaces, it’s typically analyzed eight ways from Sunday by a long list of antimalware and other security companies, government agencies, CERTs and other organizations who try to break it down and classify its capabilities. There’s a lot of duplicated effort there, and...

Network Anti-Reconnaissance Tool: Nova

Nova: Network Anti-Reconnaissance Tool The Network Obfuscation and Virtualized Anti-Reconnaissance Nova system is an open-source software tool developed to detect network based reconnaissance efforts, to deny the attacker access to real network data while providing false information regarding the...

When, Not Whether, Is the Question for Mobile Authentication, Research Finds

The findings from a recent study carried out by Microsoft Research and the University of South Carolina suggest that we should be asking ourselves when to require authentication rather than whether to require authentication. The research puts forth the idea of tailoring authentication requirement...

Adobe releases open source malware classification tool

Adobe releases open source malware classification tool Adobe Systems has released a malware classification tool in order to help security incident first responders, malware analysts and security researchers more easily identify malicious binary files. The 'Adobe Malware Classifier' tool uses...

Adobe Releases Malware Classifier Tool

Adobe has published a free tool that can help administrators and security researchers classify suspicious files as malicious or benign, using specific machine-learning algorithms. The tool is a command-line utility that Adobe officials hope will make binary classification a little easier. Adobe...

Nmap 5.61 TEST2 - IPv6 OS detection Added

Nmap 5.61 TEST2 - IPv6 OS detection Added Nmap Added IPv6 OS detection, CPE, 30 more scripts, and more features in latest release Nmap 5.61 TEST2. Change Log for Nmap 5.61TEST2 Added IPv6 OS detection system! The new system utilizes many tests similar to IPv4, and also some IPv6-specific ones tha...

Adaptive Security Analyzer IIS : A Tool to Protect Windows Based Web Servers !

Adaptive Security Analyzer IIS or the ASA IIS protects Windows-based web servers from known and unknown vulnerabilities like Directory Traversal, Buffer Overflow, Parser Evasion, High-bit Shellcode, Remote Data Services, In addition to the above, it also protects them from various types of intern...