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McAfee Labs :

BlackHat and DefCon Presentations are live

Monday, August 6, 2007 at 12:46pm by David Marcus
David Marcus

McAfee Avert Labs had several presentations this year. One each at BlackHat and DefCon.

John Viega and David Coffey presented on Building an Effective Application Security Practice on a Shoestring Budget at BlackHat. I heard quite a bit of positive feedback on this at the conference itself. Kudos and extra points to both John and Dave to working in beer references!

Toralv Dirro and Dirk Kollberg presented Trojans: A Reality Check at DefCon. This one was also very well received (I actually got to attend this one!) and they were swamped (maybe not the best choice of word but many people came up to the podium anyway) with questions afterward. They gave a great update on trojans in general as well as a technical dive into recent developments on the German malware scene. Dirk even showed a fascinating command and control demo that illustrated the ease of malware creation and control.

Enjoy!

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  • David Marcus August 10, 2007 3:21AM

    We will definitely cover those topics in future blogs. Also, check out our whitepaper page:

    http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/white_paper.html

    Many of the topics you asked about are frequently written about there as well.

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  • xrt-27 August 9, 2007 12:44AM

    …I’ve just read Dirro/Kollberg’s paper,
    and hope that more materials get published soon,excellent work guys…

    …I check at regular intervals the Windows Event log,
    and noticed that McAfee currently detects more than 310000 samples…
    that ‘s hell a lot,considering that pretty much a year ago,
    this number was way smaller,at about only 200000 or so…
    http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=49

    What I mean is..would it be possible at some moment,
    to publish a short analysis/blog review,
    regarding what happened specifically during this last year…
    and speak of what are the reasons that helped/caused,
    in such a huge increase in malware development/spreading?

    Reply