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The new iBotnet

Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli take a detailed look at what appears to be the first real attempt to create a Mac botnet.

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Ghostly goings on

Researchers uncover significant cyber espionage network.

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Internet fraud complaints rise

Internet fraud complaints registered in 2008 rise by 33%.

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Your PC is infected

Rogue anti-malware applications have been around for several years, conning and causing confusion among users as well as posing problems for anti‑malware vendors. Gabor Szappanos takes a look at a piece of anti‑virus scamware.

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Rising Internet Security 2009

Rising is one of China’s most venerable security firms, having produced its first anti-virus products as long ago as 1991. As the company begins to build a presence outside its home territory, John Hawes takes a detailed look at flagship product…

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Anti-unpacker tricks – part four

New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This month's…

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Weathering the storm

'[There is] an indication that IT security budgets are being prioritized even while other business areas are seeing cuts.’ Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

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Confounded Conficker

For the last couple of months the worm known as Conficker.B (aka Downadup) has been causing havoc and keeping IT administrators awake at night as well as receiving a lot of attention from AV researchers. Vincent Tiu provides some details about this…

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Anti-spam test – first trial run

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

Martijn Grooten reports on Virus Bulletin's first comparative anti-spam test.

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Is there any hope for e-postage?

If the senders of email had to pay a small amount for each message sent, wouldn’t it diminish the spam problem? Unfortunately, we will never find out - John Levine explains why e-postage won't work.

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