It’s getting cloudy today
I have been using Panda Cloud Antivirus since it was launched. When we released the version 1.0 I installed it (the free version, not the Pro) and I’ve had it there since then. My wife’s computer also have it, and she loves it, mainly because she doesn’t realize that it is installed New versions have [...]
Panda Security Days in Sweden 2010
The Panda Security Days roadshow in Sweden has really become a real nice tradition where we visit the biggest cities in Sweden such as Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm and present the latest in the malware threat landscape, what’s new in our products and services and what you need to think about in order to be [...]
Virus Bulletin 2010 – Vancouver
This week is taking place one of the main antivirus related conferences: Virus Bulletin. Hundreds of people, from different security companies, antivirus testers from around the world, people from law enforcement, universities, big companies, etc. are meeting in the beautiful city of Vancouver, in Canada. The keynote will be given by my colleage Nick Bilogorskiy, [...]
Solution and Winner of the 2nd Panda Challenge 2010
The Panda Challenge is over. More people have participated in the 2nd challenge, even though it was way more difficult. In fact, as we thought, no one was able to obtain a valid license key for the game. As announced, in this case the winner will be the first one who succeeds in unpacking completely [...]
Shedding some light on Mariposa
A few days ago some arrests in Slovenia were announced. People is wondering if this is really linked to the Mariposa case,as the guys behind Mariposa were from Spain, and the people arrested are from Slovenia. Back in March, when the story went public, we talked about the Spanish guys arrested, and that they had [...]
Panda Challenge 2010 Edition: last challenge up!
Here you have the second challenge, this is more complex and therefore the prize is an iPad with 3G and 64Gb, the most exensive one, just to compensate for the difficulty In order to solve it, you have to create one valid license key for the game. The license key has to be sent to [...]
Solution and Winner of the 1st Panda Challenge 2010
Well, the first challenge has officially come to an end. More than 1000 people downloaded it, though we only received 12 correct answers. Here you have the explanation of the challenge solution detailed by its author, Joxean: The challenge is a crackme consisting in a little virtual machine developed in Free Pascal (http://freepascal.org). This VM [...]
Panda Challenge 2010 Edition: 1st challenge up!
As promised, this 1st challenge is here: 1st-challenge.exe. To solve it, you have to create one valid license key for 999 users of this program. The license key has to be sent to pandachallenge at pandasecurity dot com before next Monday at 17:00 (GMT+2). To avoid any problem with the mail filters, any attachment has [...]
Testing and Accountability
AMTSO (the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) is a coalition of security professionals, including many antivirus product vendors, product testing organizations and publishers, and some interested individuals. Given the highly technical nature of its activities, it is inevitable that the organization owes some of its authority to the expertise of the security specialists within its ranks, [...]
Summer tips
Many people are thinking these days in the summer, where we can enjoy life with family and friends our free time, and we can stop worrying about everything … But do we have to worry? Depends on the habits of each one. I recognize I go on holidays with almost all the gadgets I have, [...]
