Articles for October 2009

Wireshark Plugin for Mariposa Botnet Command and Control

October 27th, 2009

As a follow up to last week’s post regarding Mariposa infection research, Yamata Li of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team has developed a Wireshark plugin that will allow you to view obfuscated pcaps of traffic from a Mariposa infected client and actually decrypt them within Wireshark. The software is available to all as [...]

Control Applications, Control Threats.

October 22nd, 2009

Over the past month, we’ve been pulled in by customers to analyze various “weird” behavior on the network. One of these instances happened a few weeks ago. A large Fortune 200 customer was reviewing application usage on the network using the Palo Alto Networks devices and discovered that there were a few devices in globally [...]

Now More Than Ever.

October 20th, 2009

Now more than ever, business and security teams need to align their business priorities. Case in point, highlighted by two recent articles on social networking use in the business world. The first article, published in eWeek UK, states that most CIOs are blocking (or trying to block) social networking sites.
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