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'The main trend I have observed this year has been the spread of malware activity across several forms of technology and applications.' Eddy Willems.
Read moreFewer than half the products submitted for this VB100 review on Windows 2000 made the grade - largely thanks to some pesky polymorphic file infectors and a rash of false positives. John Hawes has all the details.
Read moreReza Rajabiun considers the implications of spam for developing countries and the persistence of the digital divide.
Read moreIn the second installment of this three-part series on exepacker blacklisting, Robert Neumann provides a more detailed look at the different types of blacklisting and describes the tools that are available for analysis.
Read moreAditya Kapoor (McAfee)
Rachit Mathur and Aditya Kapoor present an analysis of the techniques used by the Tibs packer and describes the reasons for its prolonged effectiveness.
Read moreTrojan.Srizbi is the first example seen in the wild of a complex piece of malware that operates fully from kernel mode. Kimmo Kasslin and Elia Florio provide a detailed analysis.
Read more'Whitelisting is currently nothing more than (admittedly careful and extensive) inverted blacklisting by AV software.' Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster.
Read moreBattista Biggio and colleagues assess the performance of popular open source spam filter SpamAssassin against image spam with obfuscated text.
Read moreThe AVIEN Malware Defense Guide has been written by members of the AVIEN/AVIEWS online communities with the aim of passing on knowledge that they believe will be both interesting and useful to those involved in the real-world battle against malware…
Read moreThe popularity of anonymous proxies is rising rapidly, as is the number of sites offering anonymous proxy services, but what impact do they have on corporate security? Rony Michaely explains the risks.
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