Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses

Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-06-13

Software attack tools that turn PCs into remotely controlled zombies are getting better, but defenses are not keeping up, say security experts.

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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-14
Anonymous (1 replies)

What you need is a good HIDS, e.g. ASE 2005-06-22
Mike (2 replies)

Re: What you need is a good HIDS, e.g. ASE 2005-06-24
Anonymous

It's easy to block a trojan by using software IE (Cisos Security Agent) that forces an application to conform to application behavior appropriate to it's type of applicaion. Example wouls include a mail program should be opening network connections for smtp pop3 imap and should not be opening command shells and running scripts.

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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-14
Captain Obvious

Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-15
Fred Reed (2 replies)

Re: Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-21
Anonymous

Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-10-15
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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-09-01
Anonymous

So, don't run as administrator on WIndows 2005-11-04
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: So, don't run as administrator on WIndows 2006-07-12
AnonymousCISSP