High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  November 25, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
A few days ago, Jon Larimer and Jon Oberheide published a vulnerability for Android platforms < 2.3.6. David Maciejak and I were curious to run it on an Android phone. Result: it runs perfectly :( So, what is this to us? Well, it’s a new...
by RSS Karine de Ponteves  |  November 23, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
On 15th november 2011, Google's mobile operating system Android reached 52.5% of the global smartphone market share. And with it an almost sixfold increase in malware threats. Gartner's share of worldwide 2011 Q2 smartphones sold to end-users by o...
by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  November 16, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
In the AV industry, one of the golden rules is to make sure that, during analysis, we do not in any way help the malware authors and/or propagate their offspring. This requires special care in the case of malware for mobile phones, because, on the o...
by RSS Alexandre Aumoine  |  November 15, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
Thank you to everyone who tried to solve our FortiChallenge 2k11! We've had way more participants than expected, and two winners : Shirley Chen Nagy Ferenc László Shirley and Nagy found the secret sentence, without even using the hints. A speci...
by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  November 08, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
It's high time the Crypto Girl talks about Crypto, isn't it? A few days ago, I analyzed a malicious Opera Updater, named SymbOS/OpFake.A!tr.dial, and was surprised to discover it uses a** 91-byte XOR key** to conceal one of its configuration file. 9...
by RSS Alexandre Aumoine  |  November 03, 2011  |  Category: Security Research
Any progress on our FortiChallenge 2k11? After the first clue, here is the second. Just a reminder that the first hint is meant to help you to find the good way with hashes. Don't miss the modification, Crypto Girl hates MD5 for this reason ! By t...

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