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TippingPoint DVLabs is a premier research organization for vulnerability analysis and discovery, ensuring TippingPoint customers have the best preemptive protection for vulnerabilities and zero day issues. Our team consists of industry recognized security researchers that apply their cutting-edge engineering, reverse engineering and analysis talents in our daily operations. The by-product of these efforts fuels the creation of vulnerability filters that are automatically delivered to our customers' intrusion prevention systems through the Digital Vaccine® service.

This site serves as a portal into the research laboratories headquartered in Austin, Texas. Members of our team regularly speak at security conferences, frequently contribute to various initiatives, discover and publish security advisories, and blog about interesting topics.

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Latest News

Kraken Botnet Infiltration

Monday April 28th, 2008

Cody Pierce and Pedram Amini recently burned some cycles analyzing and infiltrating the Kraken botnet. The results of their research are published across two blog entries. "Kraken Botnet Obervations" provides a high level overview and dives into various statistics that were collected during analysis. "Owning Kraken" details a highly technical walkthrough dissection of the Kraken protocol and custom encryption routines and how through reverse engineering an emulating Kraken server was created that can be used to over take infected systems.

TippingPoint sponsors the CanSecWest PWN to OWN Contest

Monday March 24th, 2008

TippingPoint is sponsoring this year's PWN to OWN contest at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference. Check our our blog for the latest rules and daily updates from the con.