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Mobile users more vulnerable to phishing

Mobile users reach phishing sites quicker than non-mobile users and more likely to enter personal details.

‘Cyber army’ formed in Estonia

Volunteer force of programmers, computer scientists and software engineers established.

What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 6

Terry Zink (Microsoft)

Which sender authentication techniques work in real life? Which ones don’t quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink concludes his…

Transitions: welcome to the new old world

Andrew Lee takes stock of the anti-malware industry and the world at large as we stand on the cusp of a new decade.

Carberp, a new bag of tricks

As in normal business, one of most effective ways for a banker trojan to gain market share is to do things better than its competitors, and if possible, make the migration from competitors to its own business as easy as possible. Carberp does both of…

How do we make bigger better?

‘Whilst bigger may not always be better, it is clearly always bigger. And bigness begets bigness.’ Paul Ducklin, Sophos

Android SMS trojans: new platform, ‘old’ tricks

Denis Maslennikov (Kaspersky Lab)

August 2010 saw the appearance of the first piece of malware for the Android mobile platform. Denis Maslennikov examines three variants of the FakePlayer SMS trojan.

Case study: the Ibank trojan

Alisa Shevchenko sheds some light on the technology of online banking fraud with an indepth analysis of the Ibank trojan which targets a wide variety of Russian online banking technologies.

VB ‘securing your organization in the age of cybercrime’ Seminar

Helen Martin reports from the first VB Seminar in London.

Commercial ‘malware’ production

Gunter Ollmann (Damballa)

‘The development and application of sophisticated malware ... already exists within the commercial realm.’ Gunter Ollmann, Damballa