You guys might find this interesting:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4120

The Cult of the Dead Cow starts community based web application for malware analysis

Posted on 08 August 2006.

The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), a prominent technology activist group, announced a new application designed to collect, analyze, and ultimately help defeat malicious software. Accessible via OffensiveComputing.net, the application gives programmers and end-users free access to a library of over 31,000 hostile software files, including viruses, rootkits, spybots, worms, etc. Users can upload an unknown or suspicious file into the library, request a match, and instantly obtain information on the malicious file, including an analysis of how it operates.

Valsmith and Danny Quist, founders of OffensiveComputing, recently unveiled the new application at DefCon 14 in a speech entitled “Hacking Malware: Offense is the New Defense.”

OffensiveComputing offers an environment where users can work together to address the destructive effects of malware. It provides full visibility into the harmful files, building up the collective knowledge of its users and facilitating the reverse engineering process. It also suggests techniques to help users defeat sophisticated malware protections such as encryption and compression.

The site is here: http://www.offensivecomputing.net/

Thanks for the news.

I think VMWare will be pretty handy though. :/

commuuuunity

not coomunity..

my two cents/sense harhar

silly mood activated

And I have to correct you a bit :

Given the recent press release there has been some confusion as to the cDc's involvement in Offensive Computing. Offensive Computing is wholly run by Valsmith and Danny Quist. It was developed completely with their own resources.

Offensive Computing is affiliated with several groups including Metasploit and the cDc, however Offensive Computing is an independent entity from all of these projects.

And there's something else, on the front page:

Hacking Malware: Offense is the new Defense

I'll have to look deeper at this later on.

Edited August 10, 200620 yr by Camarade_Tux