A recent survey suggests that more than 50% of the companies are blocking social networking. I read that and asked myself do they really believe that? I ask because our analysis of application traffic on more than 200 companies around the world proves otherwise. We found 27 different social networking applications across 95% of the [...]

The Application and Threat Research Team has done a great job of provide insight into what the Mariposa threat as well as how to quickly analyze their networks to see if Mariposa is present via the WireShark plugin. Based on the applications that Mariposa uses to spread itself exactly how exposed are we? To gain [...]

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 [...]