Welcome!

I am very pleased to see the Malware Diaries now online.

I have been working in the security industry for a little more than two years now. It is definitely a very captivating and challenging place.

The SWAT team here at Paretologic is responsible for Malware Research and Database Updates. Our job is to find the bad stuff floating on the Internet and analyze it in our lab before adding detection signatures to our security products.
We actively seek malware with different tools which consist of traps (also known as HoneyPots). as well as human research.
As you may imagine we get to see a wide variety of threats from simple social engineering attacks to very well crafted exploits.

The malware diaries will tell you various stories about online security. The purpose is to be informative, accessible to the novice and interesting to the expert. My partner in crime Jean Taggart will share the pen with me along the journey.

Feel free to browse as you wish or use the menu on the right side to pick a category. We welcome your feedback.

Enjoy!

J. Segura
Computer Security Analyst, Malware Diaries author

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Hello world!

My name is Jean Taggart and I am a computer security analyst here at Paretologic.

I firmly believe that “patching” the end user is a good thing. That is essentially what we do when we inform someone through our blog postings on the seedier side of the net. When we describe how a scam works, explain how the bad guys are trying to fool users in parting with their hard earned money, we disarm them.

I have seen the threat landscape change dramaticaly over the past few years. From adware that you could simply uninstall, soon followed by programs that intentionnaly obfuscated their file names and how they hooked into the registry, and eventually applications that have monitoring processes and exhibit rootkit like traits.

If we can entertain you at the same time that we inform you on these emerging threats, so much the better.

Jean Taggart
Computer Security Analyst, Malware Diaries co-author