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The dawn of the ‘rogue AV testers’

Costin Raiu (Kaspersky Lab)

‘Some of the new testing labs that have appeared recently mimic the tactics of rogue AV products.’ Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab

Hacking Koobface

The Koobface web server component has vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable. Joey Costoya discusses the vulnerabilities, and explores the possibility of taking over the Koobface botnet.

Sex outnumbered

Study reveals legitimate sites serving malware far outnumber infected adult websites.

Russian malware bounces back

Malware originating from Russia is on the increase again.

Cybercrime case studies used to educate businesses

Autralian anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing regulator uses case studies to educate businesses about potential risks.

What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 2

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…

EICAR 2010: rainy days in Paris

Eddy Willems reports on the highlights of the 19th EICAR conference in a soggy Paris.

Anti-unpacker tricks – part nine

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 debuggers and emulators.

PWN2KILL, EICAR and AV: scientific and pragmatic research

David Harley (ESET)

‘Crossing over to the Dark Side of the customer/vendor divide has made me increasingly aware of just how bad "bad" can be.’ David Harley, ESET

VB100 – Windows Server 2008 R2

VB's lab team battled with inconsistencies and unreliable behaviours in this month's VB100 test, but eventually managed to pull together some meaningful results. John Hawes names and shames the badly behaved products and reveals this month's VB100…