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Black Hat DC and CCC 24C3

Morton Swimmer reports on two security conferences of the more hands-on nature: the 24th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany, and Black Hat DC in Washington, DC, USA.

Home (page) renovations

'We often hear from VB conference delegates that the networking opportunities at the conference are as valuable to them as the presentations themselves.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

Exepacker blacklisting part 3

In the final part of the series on exepacker blacklisting, Robert Neumann takes a look at how all the processing and analysis techniques are put into practice in a real-life situation.

Botherders herded

Botherder arrests, court appearances and convictions.

29A folds

Virus writers hang up their hats.

Pandex: the botnet that could

Pandex has attracted very little attention from the media and generated little discussion between malware researchers and among the general populace. Chandra Prakash and Adam Thomas provide an overview of the Pandex operation and take an in-depth…

Malware vs. anti-malware: (how) can we still survive?

Andreas Marx (AV-TEST)

‘Well executed and comprehensive tests will light the way to better products.’ Andreas Marx, AV-Test.org

VB comparative review: Windows Server 2003

John Hawes reports on the VB100 successes and failures of 27 anti-malware products tested on Windows 2003 Server.

Crimea river

Peter Ferrie describes Crimea, a Linux virus that integrates its code with the host code, making it hard to find.

How to disable WFP using physical disk information

Recently, a threat has appeared which obtains a file’s physical disk location information with the aid of the Windows system APIs, then proceeds to infect the corresponding system file. Ha Young Yang describes exactly how physical disk information is…