[Pycon] [new paper] "Yan Orestes" - Understanding how a malware works using Python

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Title: Understanding how a malware works using Python
Duration: 90 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 20
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract:     Nowadays, security is one of the most important topics in the entire computing world, and indeed in the world in general, ranging from political aspects such as the virus that affected Iranian centrifuges to the more personal side such as your cousin who had their social network account invaded and never understood how it happened. But how does this all work? Is a malware so complicated to understand?

    In this talk, we will discuss a bit about computer viruses (read - malware) and how they usually work and affect personal computers. We will learn programming and computing techniques and practices that support this type of program, and with that we will build our own Python malware, with several attacks, maintenance and defense features, such as:

        Ensuring repeated malware execution

        Running commands on the victim's computer

        Keylogger and screen capture

        Obtaining different types of data from the victim

        Cheating the antivirus sandbox

    And more!

    At the end of the talk, we'll discuss methods that we - as users - can protect ourselves from the dangers of malware. After all, are antiviruses really useful?

    Leave this talk as a new hacker (or better, security specialist;)) and pave the way for new experiences in development. 

Tags: [u'security', u'hacking', u'malware']