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‘[The security industry] has made great strides in attempting to get information across to the general populace in a palatable format..’ Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

Acquisitions, sales and rumours

Symantec makes purchases, Sophos sells majority interest and rumours rumble about McAfee.

Cyber Security Challenge challenged by vulnerability

XSS vulnerability in site of project aimed at plugging cyber security skills gap.

March 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.

Anti-unpacker tricks – part eight

Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. Now, the series continues with a look at tricks that are specific to debuggers and emulators.

TDSS infections – quarterly report

The TDSS/TDL rootkit is the cause of many a headache for anti-virus vendors. Here, Alisa Shevchenko presents a report and analysis of statistics collected from the users of a TDSS removal tool during the first quarter of 2010.

Adapting to TxF

Abhijit Kulkarni and Prakash Jagdale discuss why most real-time anti-virus scanners are ineffective at detecting malware written using the TxF facility and propose a working solution for the problem.

Exploit kit explosion – part two: vectors of attack

After introducing a multitude of exploit frameworks used in drive-by browser-based attacks in his last article, this month Mark Davis details the functionality of frameworks, focusing on attack vectors (exploits) and counter-intelligence efforts.

VBSpam comparative review

On the first anniversary of the VBSpam comparative review VB's team tested a record 20 full anti-spam solutions, together with one reputation blacklist. The number of VBSpam awards earned also reached a record high of 18. Martijn Grooten has the details.

Anti-malware industry events

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