Are takedowns an exercise in futility?

‘There is often little incentive for domain registrars or hosting providers to make it more difficult for criminals to obtain services.’ Mary Landesman, ScanSafe

VB2010 programme announced

Security conference programme revealed.

All star superstars

List of security bright sparks announced.

Dangerous places to be online

Research reveals most dangerous places for cybercrime in the US and Canada.

February 2010

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.

Evasions in Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems

Abhishek Singh and colleagues look at some of the more common methods of evading IDS/IPS detection and the ways in which solutions can counter these evasive techniques.

Botnets, politics and hacktivism – an interesting partnership

Terry Zink looks at the increasingly common phenomenon of hacktivism and details three recent cyber warfare attacks.

‘Signatures are dead.’ ‘Really? And what about pattern matching?’

While accepting the increasing importance of behavioural analysis and detection, Gyozo Papp looks at how current detection technologies, from the simplest to the most complex, can be backed up by pattern matching, proving that it is a mature technology that is very much alive.

Exploit kit explosion - part one

In the first of a two-part series introducing exploit kits, Mark Davis outlines the basic details of the dime-a-dozen kits used in drive-by browser-based attacks.

VB100 – Windows XP SP3

In VB's largest ever comparative review, a total of 60 products are put to the test on Windows XP. John Hawes has all the details.

Anti-malware industry events

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