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What is Rogue security software?

A Trojan horse is a destructive program that masquerades as a benign application. The software
initially appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to installation and/or execution,
but in addition to the expected function steals information or harms the system.

The challenge for an attacker is to send a convincing file attachment to the victim, which gets
easily executed on the victim machine without raising any suspicion. Today’s end users are quite
knowledgeable about malwares and viruses. Instead of sending games and fun executables,
Hackers today are quite successful in spreading the Trojans using Rogue security software.
What is Rogue security software?

What has William just installed?

William has received a Chess game from someone in his computer programming class through
email. William does not really know the person who sent the game very well, but decides to install
the game anyway because he really likes Chess.

After William installs the game, he plays it for a couple of hours. The next day, William plays the
Chess game again and notices that his machine has begun to slow down. He brings up his Task
Manager and sees the following programs running:

What has William just installed?

Identify the line in the source code that might lead to buffer overflow?

The programmers on your team are analyzing the free, open source software being used to run
FTP services on a server in your organization. They notice that there is excessive number of
functions in the source code that might lead to buffer overflow. These C++ functions do not check
bounds. Identify the line in the source code that might lead to buffer overflow?


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