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The 2008 Malware Challenge

Posted by samzenpus on from the dirty-tubes dept.

John Hering writes "With over 25 papers submitted, the results of the 2008 Malware Challenge are in. Malware has become an ever-present danger in today's connected world: The 2008 Malware Challenge was created to help increase awareness and understanding of the threat associated with malware by challenging contestants to reverse engineer and analyze real world malware from the wild."

4 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You want malware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those unaware, apparently, a few hours ago -EVERY- 30GB Zune stopped functioning at around the same time. Mass hysteria on Zune forums all over the internet.

  2. Re:You want malware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's true. And to think, I was considering buying an Xbox 360 today.

  3. Why not link to the actual event site? by gatekeep · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, this story should probably link to the actual event site.

    Secondly, the results have been available since 11/19/08. This is hardly news at this point.

  4. And maybe link to the actual results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Great you guys linked to one person's submission, an also ran paper at that. Here is a link to the actual resultS http://www.malwarechallenge.info/results.html

    BTW this new design has slow as all hell javascript (on firefox 3.0.4)