Malware

Life after Anti-Virus - What does the Future Hold?

A short 2007 powerpoint from Martin Fréchette of Symantec Labs on issues facing AV technologies in the changing malware environment. I reference this document in a post on whitelistin...

From: lukeo

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  • 03 / 15 / 2009

Constraints, Style and Focus of Industrial Computer Security Research

A 44-slide presentation by Tzi-cker Chiueh of Symantec Research Labs and Stony Brook University on how research into combatting malware is conducted and constrained (from RAID 2007)

From: lukeo

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  • 03 / 27 / 2009

A Fast Randomness Test that preserves Local Detail

Paper by Tim Ebringer, Li Sun and Serdar Boztas on a randomness test that preserves locality to detect packed/encrypted malware. My summary post on this document - http://tinyurl.com/lc6...

From: lukeo

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A Quantitative Time Series Analysis of Malware and Vulnerability Trends, Crai...

This is a long and thorough presentation from 2006 by Craig S. Wright on analysing malware & vulnerability data. You will need to download the ppt to see the extensive speaker notes.

From: lukeo

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  • 06 / 07 / 2009

The Carbon Footprint of SPAM (long version, 28 pages)

April 2009 report from McAfee on the estimated footprint of SPAM. This long version of the report includes a description of the factors used in the footprint model.

From: lukeo

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  • 07 / 02 / 2009