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Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)
‘We plan to increase our scope further and look even more at other areas of IT security.’ Martijn Grooten
Read moreThe current information landscape is pretty lacking when it comes to information about cyber investigations. Most reports on cybercrime cover only the results of an investigation, omitting the process, the investigative techniques and the specific…
Read moreIn the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at PREC: practical root exploit containment for Android devices.
Read moreAnnual Information Security Breaches survey reveals a decrease in the number of breaches but an increase in the average cost of breaches.
Read moreNumber of data records stolen in Q1 2014 sees a 233% increase over the same period last year.
Read moreThe Necurs rootkit is composed of a kernel-mode driver and a user-mode component. The rootkit makes use of some very powerful techniques, but fortunately it also has some chinks in its armour. Peter Ferrie describes its strengths and weaknesses.
Read moreThe spam botnet Tofsee can be divided into three components: loader, core module and plug-ins. Ryan Mi describes how the components communicate with the C&C server, and how they work with one another.
Read moreGabor Szappanos (Sophos)
Last month’s issue of Virus Bulletin featured a detailed analysis of the Polarbot (a.k.a. Solarbot) trojan. The article covered just about everything you could ever want to know about it – except for one thing: how does a computer end up being…
Read moreWorking both as a product manager and as an IT security expert and evangelist for an IT security company, Sorin Mustaca has seen that, with the technologies and products that we have available, we can't mitigate all the attack vectors used by today’s…
Read more‘We will need to collaborate and implement standardized threat data sharing.' Chad Loeven
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