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Anti-botnet operations

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

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On the relevance of spam feeds

Claudiu Musat and George Petre explain why spam feeds matter in the anti-spam field and discuss the importance of effective spam-gathering methods.

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Things to come

New anti-malware companies and products seem to be springing up with increasing frequency at the moment, many reworking existing detection engines into new forms, adding new functions, as well as several that are working on their own detection…

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Rooting about in TDSS

Eugene Rodionov (ESET)
Aleksandr Matrosov (ESET)

During the course of their research into the TDSS rootkit, Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov developed a universal utility for dumping the rootkit’s hidden file system. Here they provide the details

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Anti-unpacker tricks – part thirteen

Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. Now, the series continues with a look at tricks that are specific to the IDA plug-in, IDA Stealth.

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Changing times

‘Ten years ago the idea of malware writing becoming a profit-making industry simply wasn’t on the radar.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

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VB100 – Windows Server 2003

This month the VB test team put 38 products through their paces on Windows Server 2003. John Hawes has the details of the VB100 winners and those who failed to make the grade.

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It's just spam, it can't hurt, right?

One nice summer’s day, emails started flooding into Gabor Szappanos's mailbox with a spam-like message and a suspicious-looking attachment. The messages promised news on the latest FIFA World Cup scandal, so he took a look. In fact, the messages were…

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Overall fall in fraud, but online banking losses rise

Leading trade association reveals that banking and credit card fraud in the UK fell overall in 2009, with a decrease in all areas apart from online banking.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Seventh National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the US.

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