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Season’s greetings

Happy holidays from the VB team.

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Spam falls to 2008 levels

Spam levels at lowest since 2008.

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What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 5

Terry Zink (Microsoft)

Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real life? Which ones don’t quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to…

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Wot no comparative?

VBSpam comparative results postponed.

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Anti-botnet operations

Partial success in the takedown of Bredolab; m00p gang member enters guilty plea.

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Deelaed learning

Over a period of around three months, new virus writer hh86 produced a handful of viruses using some new techniques - then disappeared without a word. Peter Ferrie details her creations.

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Vancouver expedition

The 20th VB conference drew to a close last month in the beautiful city of Vancouver. Helen Martin reports on the presentations, games, awards, birthday cakes, and the buzzword of the event: Stuxnet.

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Anti-unpacker tricks – part fourteen

Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. In this final article of the series we look at anti-unpacking by anti-emulating.

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Worldwide anti-botnet initiatives

‘Germany was the first country to launch a large-scale malware-cleaning project backed by the government.’ Sorin Mustaca, Avira

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Exploit identification

In previous articles Mark Davis introduced exploit frameworks such as Fragus, Tornado, and others, and described how to analyse them using LAMP/WAMP servers. Here, he walks through a Tornado kit, start to finish, showing the process required to…

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