Sysnative.com: Need help with BSOD's?

At one time or another, most people who use the Windows operating system have experienced the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) -- until Windows 8, a strange blue screen filled with numbers and codes, completely incomprehensible to most everyone.

Granted, there are occasions where a shutdown/restart or evoking "Last Known Good Configuration" appear to have resolved whatever issue caused the

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File hosts + Malware

Over the years, we've seen file hosting being abused to house malicious payloads that are either downloaded by a "dropper", or are used in the likes of drive-by attacks.

One of the most common ones abused today, is of course, dropbox.com. However, over the past 24 months, I formed a fantastic relationship with them that has proven extremely effective in getting the malware removed extremely

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional v12

How do you take a break from work, whilst still getting things ticked off of your to-do list? Well, if you’re like me – you quite simply, don’t take a break.

I’ve been awake for almost 36 hours, working flat out, with the exception of the 2 hours I had to take earlier, and decided I needed a break. One of the things on my to-do list, was a review of Paragon’ Hard Disk Manager Professional.

One

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Toolsmith: Buster Sandbox Anayzer

Introduction
On April 10th, 2012 a new version of Sandboxie was released, and on April 16th so too was a new version of the Buster Sandbox Analyzer which uses Sandboxie at its core. Voila! Instant toolsmith fodder.
It’s been a few months since we’ve covered a malware analysis-specific tool so the timing was excellent.
Buster Sandbox Analyzer is intended for use in analysis of process behavior

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Mapping Cybercrime by Country

All cybercrime is hosted and served from somewhere. A simple enough truism and yet little research, or even initiatives, emerge from this area. A new interactive web-based tool aims to provide deeper insights into this domain in search of solutions to a global problem.

How much cybercrime is served by the hosting providers registered to, or routing through, an individual country? An

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