August issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Aug 1, 2007

The August issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The August 2007 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

• Are you invisible?: 'Anyone who writes even one example of a piece of malware, exploit or rootkit feels qualified to call himself a security researcher.' Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET, Poland

• The dark side of whitelisting: Dr Vesselin Bontchev shares his views on whitelisting and why conventional anti-virus scanners will be around for a long time to come.

• VB2007: call for last-minute papers: Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those wishing to present last-minute technical presentations at VB2007 in Vienna.

• Profiling binaries for instrumentation: Instrumenting binaries is a technique that is rapidly gaining popularity among security researchers. Profiling the binary beforehand can provide a lot of important information about the target, as Aleksander Czarnowksi explains.

• VB100 comparative review: Windows Vista x64 provided a rough terrain for AV products in the latest round of VB100 comparative testing. John Hawes has the full details of the products that made the grade and those that fell short.

• Email sender authentication: advantages and shortcomings: Alberto Treviño and Dr J. J. Ekstrom detail the advantages and shortcomings of email sender authentication as an anti-spam technique, explaining why they consider it a useful technique in the fight against spam.

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Posted on 01 August 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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