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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
Read moreVB'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…
Read moreThe latest in a flurry of activity in acquisitions and mergers in the security field.
Read moreAbhijit P. Kulkarni (Quick Heal Technologies)
Prakash D. Jagdale (Quick Heal Technologies)
Abhijit Kulkarni and Prakash Jagdale discuss why most real-time anti-virus scanners are ineffective at detecting malware written using the TxF facility and propose a working solution for the problem.
Read moreLast 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.
Read more‘[The security industry] has made great strides in attempting to get information across to the general populace in a palatable format..’ Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin
Read moreAfter introducing a multitude of exploit frameworks used in drive-by browser-based attacks in his last article, this month Mark Davis details the functionality of frameworks, focusing on attack vectors (exploits) and counter-intelligence efforts.
Read moreSymantec makes purchases, Sophos sells majority interest and rumours rumble about McAfee.
Read moreXSS vulnerability in site of project aimed at plugging cyber security skills gap.
Read moreThe TDSS/TDL rootkit is the cause of many a headache for anti-virus vendors. Here, Alisa Shevchenko presents a report and analysis of statistics collected from the users of a TDSS removal tool during the first quarter of 2010.
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