'The malware research community [is] the authority with regard to assisting newcomers in the adoption of safe practices.' Ryan Hicks, Earthlink.
Use of hidden DRM software costs company $5.75m.
Buffer overflow vulnerability in MMS SMIL exploited.
The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.
OSX/Macarena is the first parasitic infector of Mach-O files. Peter Ferrie has all the details.
W32/Nubys-A looked, at first glance, like a trojan downloader. However, most samples contained not one, but several legitimate PE files in the appended data. Samples with one appended executable would have suggested a prepending virus, but why several? Robert Poston makes sense of the conundrum.
Just as it seemed that mass-mailers were dying away, a new breed emerged: Stration (aka Warezov, or Strat). Ivan Macalintal investigates the motives of the Stration gang.
David Harley looks back over 17 years in the AV industry and describes his life before AV.
Calling all speakers.
John Hawes takes an in-depth look at the latest version of Sophos's full cross-platform, multi-component suite, Sophos Enterprise Security.
Anti-spam news; The TREC 2006 Spam Filter Evaluation Track (feature)