A ‘defence triangle’

‘... with the facts laid bare, the cross-border cyber enforcement issues between nations will be discussed differently.' Wout de Natris, De Natris Consult

Crimeware kit released for Mac

Mac users targeted by crimeware kit and fake AV.

DNS hack

Hackers gain access to server providing DNS for legitimate domains.

March 2011

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.

Putting Trojan.Hashish out to grass

Win32/Unruy.AD conceals its code at a low level and infects the Master Boot Record so that it will be loaded before the operating system (and any security solutions installed by the user) have a chance to kick in. Robert Lipovský and Peter Hlavatý provide all the details.

Flibi: evolution

The Flibi virus demonstrated that a virus can carry its own ‘genetic code’, and if the building blocks of that code are mutated in some way, then interesting behaviours can arise. In this article Peter Ferrie demonstrates how some of Flibi's instructions might be removed by replacing them with functionally equivalent code sequences.

Zero day: a novel

VB usually reserves book reviews for factual books dedicated to the subject of information security. This month, however, we break away from tradition to review a piece of fiction written by renowned Windows systems internals expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich.

Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Free

Free anti-virus continues to be all the rage, with more and more firms jumping on the bandwagon. John Hawes takes a look at one of the latest offerings: the free version of Agnitum’s Outpost Security Suite, and finds that you can get quite a lot for nothing these days.

VBSpam comparative review May 2011

The 13th VBSpam test didn’t prove unlucky for any of the participating products, with all 19 entrants receiving a VBSpam award. Martijn Grooten presents the detailed figures that distinguish the good products from the really good ones, and takes a look at some additional features of the products on test.

Anti-malware industry events

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