‘Government-sponsored efforts to improve cybersecurity are underway ... but will they accomplish their goals?' Stephen Cobb, ESET.
UK's information security skills receive a boost.
Public malware database launched in a bid to help boost cybersecurity.
Conflict-ridden nation seeks security experts.
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.
Aditya Sood and colleagues discuss the details and design of the Styx exploit pack.
All kinds of amazing things can be done in JavaScript, especially when the size is constrained. However, when you take size-optimization techniques, combine them with structure and variable-name obfuscations and cram in every malicious action that comes to mind, then you end up with something that looks like JS/Proslikefan. Peter Ferrie has the details.
Despite recent declines, spam still accounts for more than 70% of all email sent. Why does this happen? He Xu exposes the tip of the iceberg by analysing a recent spambot which is driven by the Andromeda botnet: Win32/Nedsym.G.
In the latest of his 'Greetz from Academe' series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at academic focus on hackers.
In this month's VBSpam test, all but one of the 18 full solutions tested achieved a VBSpam award and five of them stepped things up a notch to earn a VBSpam+ award. Martijn Grooten has the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.