The method that this tool uses is a simple one that opens a location in its address space with a call to VirtualAlloc with permissions of read, write, and execute. VirualAlloc is a Windows specific ...

IT security experts have dismissed a research paper warning about malware that can be hidden within what appears to be plain English prose, noting that this threat is nothing new. In a recent report ...

Apple security whiz Charlie Miller has discovered a method that may enable attackers to run shellcode on the latest version of the Apple iPhone, something that researchers previously thought to be ...

Charlie Miller, a well-known hacker and analyst at Independent Security Evaluators in Baltimore told SCMagazineUS.com that he found a way to trick the iPhone into running code that enables shellcode - ...

At the end of spring 2012, the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef (also known as ZeroAccess) was updated. We began tracking the first updated samples at the beginning of May when a new ...