October issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Oct 1, 2009

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

The October 2009 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:

• VB100 on Windows Server 2008: This month VB's test team put 26 products to the test on Windows Server 2008. John Hawes has the full results.

• Social networking meets social engineering: 'Just when we thought things couldn't get any more volatile, along came social networking.' Jeff Aboud, In-Focus Marketing.

• Flying solo: Continuing his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine, Peter Ferrie looks at a virus named 'Pilot'.

• Geneva convention: Ears still ringing from the sound of yodelling and (to a lesser degree) jet planes, Helen Martin reflects on VB2009 - one of VB's biggest conferences to date.

• 7th German Anti Spam Summit: Sorin Mustaca reports on the 7th German Anti Spam Summit.

• Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and colleagues describe a collaborative project between the Anti-Phishing Working Group and Carnegie Mellon University that aims to educate users about the dangers of phishing by displaying an educational message in place of phishing sites that have been taken down.

• An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war?: Marios Kokkodis and Michalis Faloutsos present the results of an empirical study of spamming activity, discussing the temporal spreading of spammers across the IP space and illustrating the evolution of high-activity spamming IP spaces.

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Posted on 05 October 2009 by Virus Bulletin

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