‘If anyone were to invent SMTP today and decide it was a good idea for messages to be sent in plain text, they would receive short shrift.’ Martijn Grooten considers the current state of email in light of recent security-related incidents.
UK starts recruitment for Cyber Reserve Unit; India plans to increase number of reverse engineering professionals.
Finnish Ministry of Foreign affairs breached over four-year period.
Only 17% of respondents in Ernst & Young survey say their company’s information security function fully meets the needs of their organization.
The first week of October saw the 23rd anniversary of German reunification and the 23rd Virus Bulletin International Conference – in Berlin. Helen Martin reports on the latter.
When one has a nice idea – such as a tricky method for encoding data – it is common to take that idea and improve on it. It is rare to see someone take such an idea and degenerate it, but that’s exactly what we see in W32/Tussie.B. Peter Ferrie reports.
Neurevt is a relatively new HTTP bot that already has a lot of functionalities along with an extendable and flexible infrastructure. Zhongchun Huo takes a detailed look at its infrastructure, communication protocol and encryption scheme.
ZAccess (a.k.a. ZeroAccess) is a complex botnet with many different variants and updates to the malware having been observed over several years. In June He Xu and colleagues found and analysed some variants which integrated a debugger engine. He takes a look at some of the features in those variants.
According to the Online Trust Alliance, almost 10 billion ad impressions were compromised by malvertising in 2012 and malvertising incidents increased by more than 250% from Q1 2010 to Q2 2010. In this article, Bianca Stanescu and colleagues look at the evolving phenomenon of malvertising and offer some guidelines to help users and legitimate advertisers avoid these threats.
Python obfuscation is relatively rare. In the latest of his ‘Greetz from academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock takes a look at a research paper in which the authors reverse engineered a 'hardened' Python application from Dropbox.
In this month's VBSpam test, all but one of the 19 full solutions tested achieved a VBSpam award and eight 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.