Tag: research
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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…
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Malicious space on MySpace
Last Wednesday (June 13th), SecureBrowsing has alerted us on a “cute†MySpace profile being used as a malicious code attack vector. This is not the first catch by SecureBrowsing, but to see one on MySpace this late into 2007 was a bit of a surprise. We have been talking about the risks of Web2.0 in…
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Have something to hide? make a lot of noise about it!
There has been a lot of noise on the web over the past few days in regard to the MPack toolkit being used in the Italy region. Everyone has been talking about it vigorously: From the washington post, WebSense, TrendMicro, so eventually even Slashdot picked up on it. The interesting thing is, no one is…
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Google’s “Ghost in a Browser”, WebSense, and more…
First things first – big Kudos to Google for their research paper. We at MCRC have found it to be very reassuring for us – now we know we are not the only nuts out there running around in the security arena and wondering how come nobody sees the imminent threats described in the paper.…