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Date
Author
Title
2024-09-06
Jesse La Grew
Enrichment Data: Keeping it Fresh
2024-02-25
Guy Bruneau
Utilizing the VirusTotal API to Query Files Uploaded to DShield Honeypot [Guest Diary]
2024-02-06
Jan Kopriva
Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really)
2024-01-24
Johannes Ullrich
How Bad User Interfaces Make Security Tools Harmful
2022-09-12
Johannes Ullrich
VirusTotal Result Comparisons for Honeypot Malware
2022-03-27
Didier Stevens
Video: Maldoc Cleaned by Anti-Virus
2022-03-10
Xavier Mertens
Credentials Leaks on VirusTotal
2021-10-20
Xavier Mertens
Thanks to COVID-19, New Types of Documents are Lost in The Wild
2021-03-06
Xavier Mertens
Spotting the Red Team on VirusTotal!
2020-12-29
Jan Kopriva
Want to know what's in a folder you don't have a permission to access? Try asking your AV solution...
2020-11-25
Xavier Mertens
Live Patching Windows API Calls Using PowerShell
2020-11-18
Xavier Mertens
When Security Controls Lead to Security Issues
2020-08-31
Didier Stevens
Finding The Original Maldoc
2020-08-29
Didier Stevens
Malicious Excel Sheet with a NULL VT Score: More Info
2020-08-24
Xavier Mertens
Tracking A Malware Campaign Through VT
2020-05-06
Xavier Mertens
Keeping an Eye on Malicious Files Life Time
2020-04-03
Xavier Mertens
Obfuscated with a Simple 0x0A
2020-01-27
Johannes Ullrich
Network Security Perspective on Coronavirus Preparedness
2020-01-23
Xavier Mertens
Complex Obfuscation VS Simple Trick
2019-12-15
Didier Stevens
VirusTotal Email Submissions
2019-06-28
Rob VandenBrink
Verifying Running Processes against VirusTotal - Domain-Wide
2019-02-11
Didier Stevens
Have You Seen an Email Virus Recently?
2018-06-25
Didier Stevens
Guilty by association
2017-01-06
John Bambenek
Great Misadventures of Security Vendors: Absurd Sandboxing Edition
2016-01-23
Didier Stevens
Sigcheck and VirusTotal for Offline Machine
2015-12-05
Guy Bruneau
Are you looking to setup your own Malware Sandbox?
2015-08-06
Didier Stevens
Sigcheck and virustotal-search
2015-07-21
Didier Stevens
Searching Through the VirusTotal Database
2015-07-17
Didier Stevens
Process Explorer and VirusTotal
2015-07-17
Didier Stevens
Autoruns and VirusTotal
2015-07-17
Didier Stevens
Sigcheck and VirusTotal
2015-06-28
Didier Stevens
The EICAR Test File
2014-10-03
Johannes Ullrich
CSAM: The Power of Virustotal to Turn Harmless Binaries Malicious
2014-05-27
Kevin Shortt
Avast forums hacked
2014-02-07
Rob VandenBrink
Hello Virustotal? It's Microsoft Calling.
2013-10-30
Russ McRee
SIR v15: Five good reasons to leave Windows XP behind
2013-08-03
Deborah Hale
What Anti-virus Program Is Right For You?
2013-06-07
Daniel Wesemann
100% Compliant (for 65% of the systems)
2013-04-26
Russ McRee
What is "up to date anti-virus software"?
2012-12-03
John Bambenek
John McAfee Exposes His Location in Photo About His Being on Run
2012-11-29
Kevin Shortt
New Apple Security Update: APPLE-SA-2012-11-29-1 Apple TV 5.1.1
2012-11-28
Mark Hofman
McAfee releases extraDAT for W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h
2012-11-28
Mark Hofman
New version of wireshark is available (1.8.4), some security fixes included.
2012-11-27
Chris Mohan
Can users' phish emails be a security admin's catch of the day?
2012-11-26
John Bambenek
Online Shopping for the Holidays? Tips, News and a Fair Warning
2012-11-20
John Bambenek
Behind the Random NTP Bizarreness of Incorrect Year Being Set
2012-11-20
John Bambenek
Firefox v 17.0 just released, more here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0/releasenotes/
2012-11-19
John Bambenek
MoneyGram fined $100 million for aiding wire fraud - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/moneygram-fined-100-million-for-wire-fraud/
2012-11-19
John Bambenek
New Poll: Top 5 Unresolved Security Problems of 2012
2012-11-17
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
New Sysinternal Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/11/16/updates-adexplorer-v1-44-contig-v1-7-coreinfo-v3-2-procdump-v5-1.aspx?Redirected=true
2012-11-12
John Bambenek
Request for info: Robocall Phishing Against Local/Regional Banks
2012-11-09
Mark Baggett
Remote Diagnostics with PSR
2012-11-09
Mark Baggett
Fresh batch of Microsoft patches next week
2012-11-07
Mark Baggett
Help eliminate unquoted path vulnerabilities
2012-11-07
Mark Baggett
Multiple 0-Days Reported!
2012-11-07
Mark Baggett
Cisco TACACS+ Authentication Bypass
2012-11-05
Johannes Ullrich
Reminder: Ongoing SMTP Brute Forcing Attacks
2012-11-05
Johannes Ullrich
Possible Fake-AV Ads from Doubleclick Servers
2012-11-04
Lorna Hutcheson
What's important on your network?
2012-11-02
Daniel Wesemann
The shortcomings of anti-virus software
2012-10-31
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
2012-10-30
Johannes Ullrich
Hurricane Sandy Update
2012-10-30
Richard Porter
Splunk 5.0 SP-CAAAHB4 http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHB4
2012-10-28
Tony Carothers
Firefox 16.02 Released
2012-10-26
Russ McRee
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 26 - Attackers use trusted domain to propagate Citadel Zeus variant
2012-10-25
Richard Porter
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 25 - Pro Audio & Video Packets on the Wire
2012-10-24
Russ McRee
Ongoing Windstream outage in the midwest - https://twitter.com/search?q=windstream
2012-10-21
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 22: Connectors
2012-10-21
Lorna Hutcheson
Potential Phish for Regular Webmail Accounts
2012-10-19
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 19: Standard log formats and CEE.
2012-10-18
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 18 - Vendor Standards: The vSphere Hardening Guide
2012-10-17
Mark Hofman
New Acrobat release (including reader) available. Version 11. Some security improvements more here -->http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/
2012-10-16
Richard Porter
CyberAwareness Month - Day 15, Standards Body Soup (pt2), Same Soup Different Cook.
2012-10-16
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 16: W3C and HTML
2012-10-14
Pedro Bueno
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 14 - Poor Man's File Analysis System - Part 1
2012-10-09
Johannes Ullrich
Microsoft October 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview
2012-10-07
Tony Carothers
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 7 - Rollup Review of CSAM Week 1
2012-10-05
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5: Standards Body Soup, So many Flavors in the bowl.
2012-10-05
Richard Porter
VMWare Security Advisory: VMSA-2012-0014 - http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
2012-10-05
Richard Porter
Reports of a Distributed Injection Scan
2012-10-04
Mark Hofman
And the SHA-3 title goes to .....Keccak
2012-10-01
Johannes Ullrich
Cyber Security Awareness Month
2012-09-28
Joel Esler
Adobe certification revocation for October 4th
2012-09-26
Johannes Ullrich
Some Android phones can be reset to factory default by clicking on links
2012-09-26
Johannes Ullrich
More Java Woes
2012-09-21
Johannes Ullrich
iOS 6 Security Roundup
2012-09-19
Russ McRee
Script kiddie scavenging with Shellbot.S
2012-09-17
Rob VandenBrink
What's on your iPad?
2012-09-14
Lenny Zeltser
Scam Report - Fake Voice Mail Email Notification Redirects to Malicious Site
2012-09-13
Mark Baggett
Microsoft disrupts traffic associated with the Nitol botnet
2012-09-13
Mark Baggett
More SSL trouble
2012-09-10
Johannes Ullrich
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Pre-Release
2012-09-10
Johannes Ullrich
Godaddy DDoS Attack
2012-09-06
Johannes Ullrich
SSL Requests sent to port 80 (request for help/input)
2012-09-04
Johannes Ullrich
Another round of "Spot the Exploit E-Mail"
2012-09-02
Lorna Hutcheson
Demonstrating the value of your Intrusion Detection Program and Analysts
2012-09-01
Russ McRee
Blackhole targeting Java vulnerability via fake Microsoft Services Agreement email phish
2012-08-30
Johannes Ullrich
Editorial: The Slumlord Approach to Network Security http://isc.sans.edu/j/editorial
2012-08-29
Johannes Ullrich
"Data" URLs used for in-URL phishing
2012-08-27
Johannes Ullrich
The Good, Bad and Ugly about Assigning IPv6 Addresses
2012-08-27
Johannes Ullrich
Malware Spam harvesting Facebook Information
2012-08-26
Lorna Hutcheson
Who ya gonna contact?
2012-08-20
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Do we need test procedures in our companies before implementing Antivirus signatures?
2012-08-19
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Authentication Issues between entities during protocol message exchange in SCADA Systems
2012-08-12
Tony Carothers
Layers of the Defense-in-Depth Onion
2012-08-12
Tony Carothers
Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2012-3132
2012-08-09
Mark Hofman
Zeus/Citadel variant causing issues in the Netherlands
2012-08-09
Mark Hofman
SQL Injection Lilupophilupop style, Part 2
2012-08-07
Adrien de Beaupre
Who protects small business?
2012-08-04
Kevin Liston
Vendors: More Patch-Release Options Please
2012-07-27
Daniel Wesemann
Cuckoo 0.4 is out - cool new features for malware analysis http://www.cuckoosandbox.org/
2012-07-24
Richard Porter
Wireshark 1.8.1 Released http://www.wireshark.org/
2012-07-24
Richard Porter
Report of spike in DNS Queries gd21.net
2012-07-20
Mark Baggett
Syria Internet connection cut?
2012-07-19
Mark Baggett
Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-07-19
Mark Baggett
A Heap of Overflows?
2012-07-16
Richard Porter
Sysinternals Update @ http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/07/16/updates-handle-v3-5-process-explorer-v15-22-process-monitor-v3-03-rammap-v1-21-zoomit-v4-3.aspx
2012-07-13
Richard Porter
Yesterday (not as on the ball as Rob) at SANSFire
2012-07-12
Rick Wanner
Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctms
2012-07-12
Rick Wanner
Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Recording Server - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctrs
2012-07-12
Rick Wanner
Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Immersive Endpoint Devices - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-cts
2012-07-12
Rick Wanner
Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco TelePresence Manager - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120711-ctsman
2012-07-09
Johannes Ullrich
The FBI will turn off the Internet on Monday (or not)
2012-07-09
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Internet Storm Center panel tonight at SANSFIRE 2012!
2012-07-05
Adrien de Beaupre
New OS X trojan backdoor MaControl variant reported
2012-07-02
Joel Esler
A rough guide to keeping your website up
2012-07-02
Joel Esler
Linux & Java leap second bug
2012-06-29
Jim Clausing
Updated SysInternals tools - Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, PSKill -- http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2012/06/28/updates-autoruns-v11-32-process-explorer-v15-21-process-monitor-v3-02-pskill-v1-15-rammap-v1-2.aspx
2012-06-21
Russ McRee
Wireshark 1.8.0 released 21 JUN 2012 http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
2012-06-21
Russ McRee
Analysis of drive-by attack sample set
2012-06-19
Daniel Wesemann
Vulnerabilityqueerprocessbrittleness
2012-05-16
Johannes Ullrich
Avira Antivirus false positives http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=144875
2012-04-26
Richard Porter
Define Irony: A medical device with a Virus?
2012-04-13
Daniel Wesemann
Anti-virus scanning exclusions
2012-03-05
Johannes Ullrich
Flashback Malware now with Twitter C&C
2011-07-02
Pedro Bueno
Bootkits, they are back at full speed...
2011-06-02
Johannes Ullrich
Some Insight into Apple's Anti-Virus Signatures
2011-05-31
Johannes Ullrich
Apple Improving OS X Anti-Malware Feature
2011-05-19
Daniel Wesemann
Fake AV Bingo
2011-04-20
Daniel Wesemann
Virustotal.com hiccup
2011-03-17
Kevin Liston
So You Got an AV Alert. Now What?
2011-03-09
Kevin Shortt
AVG Anti-Virus 2011 False Positives - Luhe.Exploit.PDF.B
2011-03-01
Daniel Wesemann
AV software and "sharing samples"
2011-02-07
Pedro Bueno
The Good , the Bad and the Unknown Online Scanners
2011-01-18
Daniel Wesemann
Yet another rogue anti-virus
2011-01-10
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages
2011-01-10
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
VirusTotal VTzilla firefox/chrome plugin
2010-11-11
Daniel Wesemann
Fake AV scams via Skype Chat
2010-09-09
Marcus Sachs
'Here You Have' Email
2010-06-14
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Small lot of Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 shipped with malware
2010-05-26
Bojan Zdrnja
Malware modularization and AV detection evasion
2010-02-15
Johannes Ullrich
Various Olympics Related Dangerous Google Searches
2009-12-03
Mark Hofman
Avast false positives
2009-09-25
Lenny Zeltser
Categories of Common Malware Traits
2009-09-17
Bojan Zdrnja
Why is Rogue/Fake AV so successful?
2009-08-29
Guy Bruneau
Immunet Protect - Cloud and Community Malware Protection
2009-08-19
Daniel Wesemann
Checking your protection
2009-08-13
Johannes Ullrich
CA eTrust update crashes systems
2008-09-15
donald smith
Fake antivirus 2009 and search engine results
2006-10-30
William Salusky
ToD - Configuration Management - maintaining security awareness
2000-01-02
Deborah Hale
2010 A Look Back - 2011 A Look Ahead
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