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'As things currently stand, anyone who has pornographic images appearing on their screen as a result of malware on their PC, or being trapped in a continuous pop-up loop, is at risk of conviction if there are minors in the vicinity.' Alex Shipp,…
Read moreJohn Hawes takes an indepth look at AEC's TrustPort Workstation.
Read moreJose Nazario (Arbor Networks)
'Monitoring darknet traffic yields great visibility into what threats are present.’ Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks.
Read moreThe latest edition to the W32/Chiton family is a malicious plug-in for one of the most popular tools of the anti-malware trade: the IDA disassembler and debugger. Peter Ferrie provides the details.
Read moreIn early 2007, Trojan.Peacomm (a.k.a. the ‘Storm trojan’) demonstrated that legitimate P2P protocols can be used effectively to coordinate virus networks. Elia Florio and Mircea Ciubotariu explain how.
Read moreOne of the top performers in the TREC 2006 spam filter evaluation was OSBF-Lua. Here, its creator Fidelis Assis describes the technology behind it.
Read moreAs the decline in file-infecting viruses continues, it is perhaps fitting that the newest virus for the 64-bit platform, W64/Abul, is less advanced than the one that came before it. Despite this, though, Abul implements some new features that make it…
Read more'I still believe that education is one of the best defences against any problem.' Eric Kedrosky, Nortel.
Read moreJohn Hawes has a busy month with VB's first test of AV products on the long-awaited Microsoft Vista. Find out which products really are ready for Vista.
Read moreFuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue aggressively the development of newer bot modules and the exploitation of code into these bots. Vinoo Thomas and Nitin Jyoti describe how an IRC honeypot can be…
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