April issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Apr 1, 2011

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

The April 2011 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:

VB100 comparative review on Windows XP SP3: With a staggering 69 products on this month's VB100 test bench, the VB lab team hoped to see plenty of reliability and stability. But, while the majority of products were well behaved, the team was woefully disappointed by a handful of unruly participants. John Hawes has all the details.

IE 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1: '...the outlook is alarming when you consider the browser's local prevalence in China, which peaks at 34.5%.' Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster

Defeating mTANs for profit - part two: Until recently, malware on mobile devices had not been used for organized crime involving large amounts of money. This changed when the infamous Zeus gang, known for targeting online banking, started to show a clear interest in infecting mobile phones and released a new version of their bot to propagate a trojan for mobile phones. Axelle Apvrille and Kyle Yang present an in-depth analysis of the Zitmo trojan.

Hiding in plain sight: Raul Alvarez takes a look at a lesser known stealth technology - the alternate data stream.

Phighting cybercrime together: Martijn Grooten presents a round-up of the first annual APWG eCrime Researchers Sync-Up.

RSA 2011 conference review: Jeannette Jarvis presents a round-up of the 20th annual RSA Conference.

Sender authentication - practical implementations: Previously Terry Zink has looked at how SMTP works, email headers, SPF, SenderID and DKIM. But what about some practical realities? How well do these technologies work in real life? Can we use them to solve actual problems? Here he describes a real case in which SPF and SenderID were combined to solve a problem.

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Posted on 08 April 2011 by Virus Bulletin

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