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Detecting bootkits

Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk decided to find out whether anti-virus software has learned to cope successfully with Mebroot and MBR infectors in general a few years after the first appearance of this type of malware.

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Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and colleagues describe a collaborative project between the Anti-Phishing Working Group and Carnegie Mellon University that aims to educate users about the dangers of phishing by displaying an educational message in place of…

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Social networking meets social engineering

'Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more volatile, along came social networking.' Jeff Aboud, In-Focus Marketing.

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Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 x86

This month VB's test team put 26 products to the test on Windows Server 2008. John Hawes has the full results.

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Flying solo

Continuing his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine, Peter Ferrie looks at a virus named ‘Pilot’.

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7th German Anti Spam Summit 2009

Sorin Mustaca reports on the 7th German Anti Spam Summit.

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More phish

Recent reports show phishing still on the rise.

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DHS to recruit security professionals

1,000 security professionals sought.

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Security Essentials causes stir

Microsoft's new release sparks debate.

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An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war?

Marios Kokkodis and Michalis Faloutsos present the results of an empirical study of spamming activity, discussing the temporal spreading of spammers across the IP space and illustrating the evolution of high-activity spamming IP spaces.

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