'An essential force in the fight against online crime is that of law enforcement.' Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin.
Cutbacks in effort to keep spending under control.
ICANN plans to terminate accreditation of registrar favoured by cyber crooks.
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.
Peter Ferrie reaches the last in the collection of viruses created by the writer ‘fakemnded’ in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.
Chandra Prakash describes the step-by-step operational characteristics of Rustock.C in kernel mode from its startup to the point at which its spambot code (botdll) is activated in user mode.
'As the internet is increasingly used for good and evil purposes, how do you know who to trust?' asks Henk van Roest.
October 2008 saw the annual three-day work-rest-and-play marathon (without so much of the rest) that is the VB conference. A slowly recovering Helen Martin reports on VB2008.
John Hawes looks at two products from DriveSentry - part of a growing new breed of security products, which focus less on the traditional arts of the anti-malware world, and aim instead to protect systems by preventing unauthorized software from performing any potentially dangerous activity.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
Anti-spam news; The problem of backscatter - part 3 (feature)