MMPC Researchers Presentation at 3rd International CARO Workshop in Budapest, Hungary
The 3rd International
Computer Antivirus Researchers Organization
workshop took place in Budapest, Hungary on May 4th and 5th 2009. This year’s workshop took the theme “Exploits and Vulnerabilities”.
Microsoft experts included Marian Radu and Andrei Florin Saygo from the MMPC lab in Dublin, Ireland presented
Jumping through the Hoops:
Impact of Adobe Acrobat and Reader Exploits and Ziv Mador from the MMPC lab in Redmond, USA presented
Vulnerabilities and Exploits Patterns – What Can We Learn?Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report available now
Volume 6 of the
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR v6) is available now. This latest volume of the SIR details the changing
threat landscape worldwide during the second half of 2008. Focusing on the rise of rogue security software, SIR v6 also
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CanSecWest Conference – MMPC Researchers Presented New Approaches
At
CanSecWest 2009 in Vancouver,
Canada from March 16-20 2009 a team of talented researchers from the MMPC presented
“On Approaches and Tools for Automated Vulnerability Analysis.” Tanmay Ganacharya, Nikola Livic, Abhishek Singh, Swapnil Bhalode,
and Scott Lambert from the MMPC lab in Redmond, USA discussed the toolset the MMPC uses in the Response process and outline some
lessons learned.
