As reported on several news outlets and blogs... Windows 8 is giving startup malware the <a*hem*> "boot". Stories can be found on ARS Technica and Tech World. Quoting from Tech World, "Probably the biggest security addition is Windows 8’s support for UEFI 2.3.1 secured boot technology (which requires BIOS support), which stops early-booting malware from interfering with antivirus products before they load into memory."
This blog is about understanding, auditing, and addressing risk in cloud environments. Systems and architectures are rapidly converging, hiding complexity with additional layers of abstraction. Simplicity is great for operations - as long as risks are understood and appropriately addressed.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sites for Malware Analysis
An interesting document was sent to me recently that had a wealth of information, including this nice list of websites for malware analysis:
- Virus Total: Analyzes suspicious files against AV engines
- Sunbelt Sandbox Malware Sample site
- Threat Expert Malware Sample site
- Anubis: Analyzing Unknown Binaries
- Wepawet: Analyzing Web-based Malware (Flash, JavaScript, and PDF files)
- JSUNPACK A Generic JavaScript Unpacker
- Jsbeautifier Javascript unpacker and beautifier
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Yellow Bricks vSphere 5 Links
Posted to a mailing list courtesy of Ben Crook. Information is linked to http://www.yellow-bricks.com.
- Live Blog: Raising The Bar, Part V
- 5 is the magic number
- Hot of the press: vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive
- vSphere 5.0: Storage DRS introduction
- vSphere 5.0: What has changed for VMFS?
- vSphere 5.0: Storage vMotion and the Mirror Driver
- Punch Zeros
- Storage DRS interoperability
- vSphere 5.0: UNMAP (vaai feature)
- vSphere 5.0: ESXCLI
- ESXi 5: Suppressing the local/remote shell warning
- Testing VM Monitoring with vSphere 5.0
- What’s new?
- vSphere 5:0 vMotion Enhancements
- vSphere 5.0: vMotion enhancement, tiny but very welcome!
- ESXi 5.0 and Scripted Installs
- vSphere 5.0: Storage initiatives
- Scale Up/Out and impact of vRAM?!? (part 2)
- HA Architecture Series – FDM (1/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Primary nodes? (2/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Datastore Heartbeating (3/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Restarting VMs (4/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Advanced Settings (5/5)
- VMFS-5 LUN Sizing
- vSphere 5.0 HA: Changes in admission control
- vSphere 5 – Metro vMotion
- SDRS and Auto-Tiering solutions – The Injector
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