Category: Opinion
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And the winner for “top virus” of 2007 is…
Not a virus. Not even a malware. Neither is the runner up… It’s the method of how malware is populated. According to a report, the most common malware attack in 2007 is the notorious IFRAME. On our monthly and quarterly reports we provided more in-depth analysis of such top-ranking IFRAME and obfuscated code. In Finjan’s…
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IFRAME is a security risk???
Ok, I have just read the latest in “IFRAME Security†articles and had to write something about it. While going through my usual RSS feeds, I stumbled onto this article, which tries to summarize why “iframes are a security riskâ€. Not to pick on the specific article, but this is not the first time that…
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Hitting the nail on the head
When we here at the MCRC are publishing our quarterly trends reports (http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=827), we are always facing the possibility that what we have been working on and predicting that would become the next issue with web security, isn’t really going to happen. Fortunately, we keep getting great feedback from the community since we started the…
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The perils of running a security blog
This is a bit off-the-beaten-path of this blog’s usual in-depth hardcore security posts. I was going through some of the support related emails that have some relevance to the areas I’m responsible for, and found a pretty interesting correspondence between an avid blog reader (for privacy I’m not going to mention his/her name), and one…
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Post BlackHat, pre DefCon
So it’s been a really hectic couple of days here in Vegas. We are here (myself and 2 members of MCRC – Aviv & Amir), running between presentations, and handling booth/media traffic. The really interesting trend here is the amount of research that touched web security (in the sense that we at Finjan are focused…