2006-09-01
Abstract
Anti-spam news; Present and future phishing techniques (feature)
News
A fine, a curfew and a treasure hunt
Round up of the month's spammer penalties.
Spot that spammer
Quiz tests consumers' ability to identify spam causing sites.
Feature
Present and future phishing techniques
Sorin Mustaca takes a look at distributed phishing attacks.
Virus Bulletin
Virus Bulletin - September 2006
Respecting the testing (comment); Gatt got your tongue? (virus analysis); Raising the bar: Rustock and advances in rootkits (rootkit analysis); The world of botnets (feature); War of the words (book review); I spy (book review); Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 (product review)
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This month's VB100 test saw some major changes and a radical overhaul of the VB100 test methodology - for the first time allowing products to use their 'cloud' look-up systems. John Hawes has all the details.