Malware without a name is still malware

'At the rate malware is currently released ... it may be that the specific naming of malware is a dead concept.' Lysa Myers, West Coast Labs.

Obama pledges security education from boardroom to classroom

President Obama announces multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity effort.

Beware of searching for lyrics

McAfee research identifies riskiest Internet search terms.

April 2009

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.

Anti-unpacker tricks – part seven

New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This article concentrates on anti-debugging tricks that target a number of popular debuggers, as well as some anti-emulating and anti-intercepting tricks.

CARO mio, AMTSO mon amour

David Harley reports on two important industry gatherings that achieved the magic combination of social networking, the exchange of solid information, great entertainment and a beautiful setting: the CARO workshop and the latest AMTSO meeting.

EICAR 2009 in a nutshell: ich bin ein EICARer

Testing, science fiction, a security legend and some magic - Eddy Willems describes the highlights of a sunny week in Berlin at the 19th EICAR conference.

VB100 on Windows 2003 Server x64

This month's comparative review tackles the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 - with the platform bringing out quite a number of quirks and oddities in several of the products under test. John Hawes presents a round up of the results including the latest RAP testing data.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Supplement - June 2009

Anti-spam news; Where is Waledac? (spambot case study)