Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - December 2008

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2008-12-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Fighting phishing at browser level (feature)

News

Spam levels bounce back

Spam levels rise again after massive drop.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Comment

Fighting phishing at the browser level

Alexandru Cosoi describes a method that attempts to deal with the phishing problem at the browser level, by combining both whitelisting and content-based solutions in a web page forgery detector.

Alexandru C. Cosoi - BitDefender, Romania

Calendar

Anti-spam industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.

Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - December 2008

Public liability insurance for computer intrusion (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part one (technical feature); Repercussions of dynamic testing (opinion); Frame4: in the picture (spotlight); VB100 on Windows Vista x64 (comparative review)

December 2008