A richer, but more dangerous web

'The accessing of media-rich, collaborative sites by employees is already cause for concern in terms of both employee productivity and security.' Mark Murtagh, Websense.

Guidelines issued for UK hacker tool ban

Government issues guidelines in response to lobbying.

November 2007

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.

Botnet monitoring

Despite the best efforts of the IT security industry it looks like the malicious bot is here to stay. Andrei Gherman looks at how botnet monitoring can provide information about bots as well as helping to keep the threat under control.

Rule-driven malware identification and classification

Over the last few years anti-virus researchers have faced an increasing volume of malware samples arriving at their research labs on a daily basis. Víctor Álvarez presents a simple, rule-driven approach to malware identification and classification that complements the manual work of the malware researcher by compensating for the weaknesses of the human brain.

Inside rogue Flash ads

As malicious web ads become increasingly common, Dennis Elser and Micha Pekrul take a close look at a Flash advertising banner belonging to the SWF.AdHijack family.

VB2008 Ottawa

Calling all speakers.

Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro 2008

John Hawes discovers how firewall expert Agnitum has fared having added malware detection to its Outpost Security Suite product.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Bulletin - January 2008

Anti-spam news; 2007: the year of the social engineer? (feature)