December issue of VB published
The December issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to
download.
The December 2010 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to
browse online or download in PDF format.
Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:
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VB100 comparative review on Windows 7 Professional:
This month the VB lab team put a monster haul of products to
test on Windows 7 Professional, but were disappointed by the level of
unreliability, untrustworthiness and flakiness they encountered. John
Hawes has all the gory details.
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VBSpam comparative review December 2010:
One month later than planned, the tenth VBSpam report puts 19 full
solutions to the test as well as one reputation blacklist. Martijn
Grooten has all the details.
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Commercial 'malware' production:
'The development and application of sophisticated malware ...
already exists within the commercial realm.' Gunter Ollmann,
Damballa
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Android SMS trojans: new platform, 'old' tricks:
August 2010 saw the appearance of the first piece of malware for
the Android mobile platform. Denis Maslennikov examines three variants
of the FakePlayer SMS trojan.
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Case study: the Ibank trojan:
Alisa Shevchenko sheds some light on the technology of online
banking fraud with an indepth analysis of the Ibank trojan which targets
a wide variety of Russian online banking technologies.
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What's the deal with sender authentication? Part 5:
Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has
a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real
life? Which ones don't quite measure up? Can we use authentication to
mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do
we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink provides the answers to these
questions and more, this month focusing on the main technology used to
digitally sign emails: DKIM.
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VB 'Securing Your Organization in the Age of Cybercrime' Seminar:
Helen Martin reports from the first VB Seminar in London.
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Call for papers: VB2011 Barcelona: Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those
wishing to present at VB2011 in Barcelona.
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07 December 2010
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As expected, the annual VB100 test on Windows XP was an epic. A higher than usual pass rate was tempered by numerous stability issues with the products under test, prompting the unveiling of a new stability rating system. John Hawes has all the details.