August issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Aug 1, 2010

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

The August 2010 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 - Windows Vista Business Edition Service Pack 2: With another epic haul of 54 products to test this month, the VB test team could have done without the bad behaviour of a number of products: terrible product design, lack of accountability for activities, blatant false alarms in major software, numerous problems detecting the WildList set, and some horrendous instability under pressure. Happily, there were also some good performances to balance things out. John Hawes has the details.

• Apple pie order?: 'Over 40% [of computer users] think [that Macs are] only "somewhat" vulnerable.' David Harley, ESET

• Anti-unpacker tricks - part eleven: 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.

• Advanced exploit framework lab set-up: Any researcher serious about regularly researching exploit frameworks needs a special lab set-up to work with the PHP, MySQL and web server components commonly found in such kits. Mark Davis documents how to create LAMP and WAMP servers and how to approach the study of such threats in a local lab.

• HTML structure-based proactive phishing detection: Marius Tibeica describes a solution for protection at browser level by providing an automated method of detecting phishing based on the tag structure of the HTML.

• What's the deal with sender authentication? Part 3: Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real life? Which ones don't quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink provides the answers to these questions and more, this month focusing on SenderID.

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Posted on 09 August 2010 by Virus Bulletin

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