Last week, Ulysses and Hermes attended the SyScan'10 Singapore conference, where 17 speakers presented 14 different topics, including software and hardware security.

The many interesting topics at this conference included integrity checking of Microsoft Office documents, Chrome sandboxing, Office vulnerabilities, PHP exploits, and mobile phone attacks.

Our presentation described the threat trend of SWF and PDF applications and how various kinds of attacks rely on vulnerabilities in Web browsers to spread threats on the Internet.  We showed how antivirus solutions work and how hackers change the content in malicious files to bypass them. We also demonstrated several ways to fight against the technology of embedded malicious content in SWF/PDF files and resolve the issue of content stripping for end users.

Thanks to the organizers for a great conference in a great place!

You can download our presentation here.