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Berlin time

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.

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When ZAccess becomes a debugger

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…

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Perhaps email is broken after all

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

‘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.

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The murky waters of the Internet: anatomy of malvertising and other e-threats

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…

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Inside an iframe injector: a look into NiFramer

Running an iframe injector on a compromised virtual hosting server can easily result in the infection of hundreds of web servers in just a few seconds. Aditya Sood and colleagues look at the design of a basic injector: NiFramer.

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Banking security under scrutiny

UK banks' cyber defences put to the test in large-scale simulated attack.

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AV vendors suffer DNS redirection

Vendor websites hit by DNS redirection attack.

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What, no prevalence?

VB prevalence table takes a break.

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Android security perceptions challenged

Google presents data to suggest Android devices are a lot less susceptible to malware than commonly believed.

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In search of a secure operating system

Richard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology)

Over the last decade or so, security has steadily become more of an issue for OS vendors due to the changing threat environment. Mark Fioravanti and Richard Ford look to the past in search of a secure operating system.

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