Virus Bulletin - March 2008


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2008-03-01


Comment

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

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

News

Botherders herded

Botherder arrests, court appearances and convictions.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

29A folds

Virus writers hang up their hats.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

January 2008

The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.


Malware analysis

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 look at the underlying code that has allowed this malware to evade detection for so long.

Chandra Prakash - Sunbelt Software, USA & Adam Thomas - Sunbelt Software, USA

Feature

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.

Robert Neumann - VirusBuster, Hungary

Conference report

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.

Morton Swimmer - CUNY, USA

Product review

AVG Internet Security 8

John Hawes gets his hands on a preview version of the latest offering from AVG - AVG Internet Security 8.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin, UK

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

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


Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - March 2008

Anti-spam news; How inbound traffic control improves spam filtering (feature)


 

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