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Thank you to everyone who tried to solve our FortiChallenge 2k11! We’ve had way more participants than expected, and two winners : 1. Shirley Chen 2. Nagy Ferenc László Shirley and Nagy found the secret sentence, witho...

Any progress on our FortiChallenge 2k11? After the first clue, here is the second. Just a reminder that the first hint is meant to help you to find the good way with hashes. Don’t miss the modification, Crypto Girl hate...

Stuck on our FortiChallenge 2k11? Here’s a first hint! Translations: La fin est encore loin surtout quand on est sur le mauvais chemin !Wrong track, go back! La fin est proche, l’anneau est inclus.Dawn is close, ...

Hello all, At Insomni’Hack 2011, we created a challenge dedicated to static reversing of Symbian executables (using SDK S60 Ed3 FP1). Sadly, nobody found the full solution, so we finally decided to put it online for you ...

Last week we attended Insomni’Hack 2011, where our Crypto Girl (Axelle Apvrille) presented  on mobile phone threats. Debriefing of the conference  may be found here and there. Both blog authors highlighted the main goal...

A few days ago we encountered a new variant of the Symbian worm, Yxes, that we named SymbOS/Yxes.H!worm. This worm contacts malicious remote servers, which host Java Server Pages, and propagates by sending ‘attractiveR...

There has been a lot of confusion lately concerning the SymbOS/Yxes worm. Among those, it has now dawned on me the so-called Transmitter.C reported in numerous articles on the net (for instance, here and here), is not sexySpace...

In case you are not familiar with the Symbian development process, application development features two major security meatures in Symbian OS 9.1 and greater. First, applications must specify their capabilities, i.e if an appli...

With February’s Threat Landscape Report out, it’s time to highlight some of the most interesting movement happening from late January 2009 to now: New vulnerabilities (NVC) were up nearly three fold, with 117 poste...