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A grown-up industry

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

‘We plan to increase our scope further and look even more at other areas of IT security.’ Martijn Grooten

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On cyber investigations. Case study: a money transfer system robbery

The 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…

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Greetz from academe: film at eleven

In 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.

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Decrease in number of breaches; increase in cost of breaches

Annual Information Security Breaches survey reveals a decrease in the number of breaches but an increase in the average cost of breaches.

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Q1 breach data revealed

Number of data records stolen in Q1 2014 sees a 233% increase over the same period last year.

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Greetz from academe: No place to Hyde

In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at a paper that describes how malicious apps can be slipped past Apple’s app review process.

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More fast or more dirty?

It is not uncommon, nowadays, for businesses to outsource their marketing to third parties - but sometimes, such business links lead to malicious activities. Ke Zhang dissects a piece of malware that generates referrer spam for a ‘web search site’…

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The shape of things to come

Momentous changes are in the pipeline for VB – with an exciting future ahead. Helen Martin announces the changes that are in store for the publication and the company.

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The curse of Necurs, part 1

The 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.

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Tofsee botnet

The 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.

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