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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramill described a step-by-step procedure that shows how to dissect an Office dropper. During the past few weeks, I received several emails asking how to dissect Office Payloads. If you are interested on follow a full detailed analysis path, please take a look to Yoroi’s Blog.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. The evidence comes from traffic analysis where the identified pattern sends (HTTP POST) data on browser history and specifically crafted files under User – AppData to specific PHP pages.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

Security Affairs

So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link].

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Take advantage of CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent automated attacks, protect against abuse, improve user experience, ensure authenticity of user-generated data, and ensure that only legitimate user interactions are processed.

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. Big data analysis tools also help organizations like L.A.

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Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Security Affairs

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with s crapers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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How To Build A Cybersecurity Career | What Really Matters

Cyber Info Veritas

Since the general work of a cybersecurity specialist is to ensure that computer systems and networks are secure—essentially meaning cybersecurity experts are in charge of the electronic security of an organization—they must be knowledgeable. In some instances, you will also need to be a qualified statistician and mathematician.