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In April 2006 a virus appeared for a new virusable platform - the general-purpose, mathematics-oriented MatLab. Vesselin Bontchev provides us with the full details of the unremarkable and slightly buggy proof-of-concept virus MLab/Balogy.A.
Read more'Phishing levels ... are expected to rise again due to the adoption of spear-phishing techniques.' Mark Sunner, MessageLabs.
Read moreIn Matt Ham's final comparative review for Virus Bulletin he puts 26 products for Windows XP through their paces. Two products enter the test line-up for the first time this month: TrustPort Antivirus and the rather more well-known Microsoft OneCare.…
Read moreSanjay Katkar describes how recent malicious programs have exploited the PE file format, manipulating the header fields to avoid detection.
Read more'The industry needs to look at what can be done to increase its defences, and provide innovative solutions.' Joshua Corman, Internet Security Systems.
Read moreAleksander Czarnowski (AVET Information and Network Security)
Aleksander Czarnowski takes a look at one of the largely undocumented aspects of penetration testing: rootkit installation for profiling system security at local level.
Read moreTomer Honen explains why being mugged at gunpoint could cost you less than being the target of the next multi-stage phishing attack.
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