It has often been said that the reason the general public does not take IT security seriously is that there has not been a sufficiently serious IT security disaster to make them take notice. But have leaks about the NSA given us the ‘cyber-Chernobyl’ that will make the public start taking information security seriously? Lysa Myers looks at changing public opinions on security.
VB2015 details announced.
UK banks' cyber defences put to the test in large-scale simulated attack.
Vendor websites hit by DNS redirection attack.
VB prevalence table takes a break.
Google presents data to suggest Android devices are a lot less susceptible to malware than commonly believed.
Peter Ferrie revisits W32/Lerock and its so-called ‘virtual code’ - which, despite some updates and tweaks still lends itself to simple detection by anti virus software.
We have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of variations of Zeus in the wild. The main goal of the malware does not vary, yet different functionalities have been added over time. Raul Alvarez takes a detailed look at some of those functionalities and shows how Zeus does things slightly differently from other malware.
Running an iframe injector on a compromised virtual hosting server can easily result in the infection of hundreds of web servers in just a few seconds. Aditya Sood and colleagues look at the design of a basic injector: NiFramer.
Over the last decade or so, security has steadily become more of an issue for OS vendors due to the changing threat environment. Mark Fioravanti and Richard Ford look to the past in search of a secure operating system.
John Aycock considers Internet censuses and a tool that can scan almost the entire IPv4 address space in search of the answer to a given census question in less than 45 minutes.
The latest VB100 test on Windows 2008 Server produced a high pass rate - with very few problems in the WildList, and relatively few stability issues. John Hawes has all the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.