December issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Dec 1, 2007

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

The December 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:

A year of threats across several technologies: ''The main trend I have observed this year has been the spread of malware activity across several forms of technology and applications.' Eddy Willems, EICAR.

Call for papers: VB is seeking submissions for VB2008 in Ottawa.

Something smells fishy: The author of MSIL/Yakizake claimed that 'very few implementations of multi-platform malware exist up until now'. Peter Ferrie explains why Yakizake, for one, does not qualify for the category.

Exploring the evolutionary patterns of Tibs-packed executables: Rachit Mathur and Aditya Kapoor present an analysis of the techniques used by the Tibs packer and describes the reasons for its prolonged effectiveness.

Exepacker blacklisting part 2: In the second installment of this three-part series on exepacker blacklisting, Robert Neumann provides a more detailed look at the different types of blacklisting and describes the tools that are available for analysis.

Blow up your video: These days we are used to seeing interactive multimedia content on websites - but unfortunately it is possible for these file formats to contain more than one might expect. Christoph Alme and Dennis Elser present a round-up of recent multimedia vulnerabilities.

VB100 comparative review on Windows 2000: Fewer than half the products submitted for this VB100 review on Windows 2000 made the grade - largely thanks to some pesky polymorphic file infectors and a rash of false positives. John Hawes has all the details.

Spam and the digital divide: Reza Rajabiun considers the implications of spam for developing countries and the persistence of the digital divide.

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Posted on 03 December 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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