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Can You Trick Malware into Believing a Production System Is a Virtual Machine?

SecureWorld News

This question arises amidst the constant battle against threats posed by malware. By tricking the malware into identifying the environment improperly, security professionals could outsmart self-termination mechanisms utilized by certain strains. Malware employs complex and sophisticated techniques to detect virtualized environments.

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A series of patent lawsuits is challenging the history of malware detection

The Verge

Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology — and that the company’s competitors are infringing on intellectual property rights with their implementation of network security software.

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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Such a flaw could allow attackers to create special malware that remotely executes code on Windows servers and creates malicious DNS queries that could even eventually lead to a company’s infrastructure being breached. a principal security program manager at Microsoft.

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iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018

Galido

Cameras vary with Android phones, however Galaxy S8 and iPhone X give each other a good challenge in comparison. For more about this comparison, check out our article: Best Personal Assistant for Mobile in 2016-2018. For more insight on this debate, visit: [link]. The iPhone 7 has a 12-megapixel camera that boasts a wide f/1.8

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- Can a City be Hacked to its Knees?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Nation-states (and perhaps others) are creating malware with the express purpose of attacking other nations or private company. Stuxnet is one example, as is the malware which fried 30,000 computers at ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia. The evidence is everywhere. Could that provoke Anonymous or a similar organization?

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Xgimi Horizon Pro 4K all-in-one projector review: more for less

The Verge

It officially debuted in Western markets in 2016 as part of an Indiegogo program to promote established Chinese brands. As such, contrast and HDR content suffer by comparison. As such, I had to install the Aptoide TV store in order to install the latest version of Netflix, which means fretting about malware.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

Fuzzing involves sending invalid input to stress test software - either the program can handle the invalid input or it can’t. Gibberish was being imputed and the program sometimes did and did not behave as expected. I got my start writing about malware, this was back even before the term malware existed.