May issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on May 1, 2007

The May issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The May 2007 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

Securing the Web 2.0: 'I believe that if the human factor is such a significant part of the problem, then it must also form part of the solution.' David Emm, Kaspersky Lab.

ANI-hilate this week: The time between the announcement and exploitation of vulnerabilities continues to shrink - especially in the case of stack overflow vulnerabilities, which require very little skill to exploit. Peter Ferrie describes a prime example: the recent ANI vulnerability and its exploits.

Beyond Virtu(e) and evil: While not technically a new virus (being modelled on the almost ancient Tenrobot family), W32/Virtu does introduce some interesting changes and new techniques. Victor Alvarez and Mario Ballano describe this polymorphic file infector that also behaves as an IRC bot.

Nirbot: targeted attacks get personal: Although keenly aware of the descriptions and blog entries posted about his creations, the author of W32/Nirbot seems not to be so well versed on the naming conventions used within the AV industry. Lysa Myers shares the details of this technologically unremarkable, yet reasonably successful bot.

Covert zombie ops: Can a botmaster send commands covertly to a botnet of over a million zombies and control them in real time? John Aycock considers how such a botmaster's command channel might look.

Product review: Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007: John Hawes shares his experiences with Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet Security suite.

MIT Spam Conference: John Graham-Cumming provides a roundup of the papers and presentations at the fifth MIT Spam Conference.

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Posted on 01 May 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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