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UPDATE: Upon further analysis, we discovered that the malware described in this report is actually a variant of TeslaCrypt, not CryptoWall. We initially identified the malware as CryptoWall because "CryptoWall decrypter" is mentioned as th...

When I was "the tech guy" (and a math and science teacher and the Drama Club Advisor) at our local high school, I often said that if our students devoted as much time to their studies as they did to trying to bypass our content filter, we&#...

Overview This week, we heard a lot about a DLL hijacking vulnerability from the security community. It began with a 0-day DLL hijacking in Microsoft Office which was discovered by an independent security researcher named Parvez Anwar. Shortly aft...

I recently relocated from rural Massachusetts to the Pacific Northwest, leaving my snow shovel and bug spray behind in favor of a good rain coat. Although I'm thrilled to have literally increased my Internet speeds by 50 times and be closer than...

For the 18th edition of the Association of Antivirus Asia Researchers conference, we flew to Da Nang in the beautiful country of Vietnam. Every major security vendor was present, not only those from Asia. After two full days of presentat...

Mobile banking is a convenient way for users to complete transactions anywhere and anytime. KPMG predicts that the mobile banking user base will grow to 1.8 billion by 2019. And, when money is involved, the bad guys always find creative ways to...

Overview From the Yes, You Really Should Upgrade Department, FortiGuard Labs has discovered a third Microsoft Office Vulnerability that is rolled into today's Patch Tuesday updates. For a bit of variety, this is a double free vulnerability in...

Overview Microsoft Patch Tuesday continues with another FortiGuard vulnerability disclosure, this time affecting Microsoft Excel. For a bit of background on Microsoft Office in general and Office 2007 in particular, check out today's first dis...

Overview Microsoft Office is the most popular productivity suite in the world, first released by the Redmond software giant in 1988. Microsoft releases updates and patches for its software, including Office, on what is now commonly known as Patch...