September issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Sep 1, 2007

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

The September 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:

AV is alive and well: 'Both the disease and the cure now differ significantly from their original forms.' David Emm, Kaspersky Lab.

The life cycle of bots: Having spent a lot of time thoroughly analysing how bots work - studying the overall bot 'ecosystem' as well as the individual files, Luis Corrons has noted that they've achieved a certain level of autonomy, in such a way that they almost have a life of their own...

Friendly whitelisting and other innovations: Bit9 CSO Ian Poynter explores some of the questions raised by Dr Vesselin Bontchev last month about the validity of whitelisting as an endpoint security technology.

Viva Las Vegas!: VB sent roving reporters (aka anti-virus miscreants) Andrew Lee and David Perry to the Nevada desert for five days of non-stop hardcore computer security at the Black Hat Briefings and hacker convention DEFCON 15.

OpenOffice security and viral risk - part one: Eric Filiol and Jean-Paul Fizaine report on the security weaknesses of the OpenOffice suite.

BitDefender Total Security 2008: John Hawes takes an in-depth look at BitDefender's latest home-user offering, BitDefender Total Security 2008.

Fighting spam using tar pits: Tobias Eggendorfer describes how both SMTP and HTTP tar pits offer interesting ways of helping to get rid of spam.

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Posted on 01 September 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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