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Reason for writing Self-Decrypting Virus
What is the rationale behind writing a self-decrypting virus? By this I mean a virus that has it's payload encrypted, decrypts at runtime and runs it.
How does this protect the virus from antivirus ...
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How to study the packets sent by a keylogger
One of my friends runescape account got hacked through key-logger. He downloaded a runescape gold generator from a file sharing site and tried to use it.
I have a strong doubt that it is a key-logger. ...
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What is disk encryption worth? Threat of proprietary Bios, SMM, optionrom, TPM etc?
Supposing there is private/secret data on a machine (i.e a x86 arch) the most reasonable thing to me would be to encrypt this data, so to protect it.
I understand that the purpose of ...
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How would you analyze an image to find out if there are scripts embedded in it?
How would you analyze an image to find out if there are scripts or possible malware embedded in it? What tools / methods to use?
