August issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Aug 1, 2011

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

The August 2011 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF or PRC (Kindle) format.

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

• Google+, privacy and the human brain: 'In the security industry we know the dangers of sharing personal information and we never stop warning about it,' says Luis Corrons, Panda Security.

• Frankie say Relax: The idea of a virus carrying (or calculating) a relocation table allows virus writers to use a high-level language and high-level APIs without having to perform tricks with position dependence. Peter Ferrie details two such viruses, Linux/Relax.A and Linux/Relax.B.

• SpyEye bot - aggressive exploitation tactics: As a follow-up to their article on the SpyEye malware infection framework, Aditya Sood and colleagues discuss the SpyEye bot and the tactics it uses for stealing information from victim machines.

• A new trend in exploitation: Recently, a new type of exploitation technique has been observed that makes use of improper implementation of protocol specifications. This type of exploitation requires a different type of analysis from the more traditional classes of exploitation. Abhishek Singh and Jonathan Norman explain why.

• IPv6 mail server whitelist declaring war on botnets: Thanks to the introduction of IPv6, spammers will have access to a much larger pool of unique IP addresses, making it almost impossible for anti-spam companies to maintain useful blacklists. The 'IPv6whitelist.eu' was founded to try to solve this problem. The project assumes that all computers send out spam, unless they have been registered on the whitelist. One of the project's co founders, Dreas van Donselaar, explains more.

• Relock-based vulnerability in Windows 7: Through analysis of an old piece of malware, researchers at the University of Verona have found unexpected vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and have demonstrated that with some slight tweaks, W32/Relock will run smoothly on the latest OS.

Note: The August 2011 VB100 comparative review on Windows Vista SP2 x64 Business Ed will be published as standalone article in mid-August. As with all new VB100 and VBSpam reviews, the report will be available for non-subscribers to purchase as a standalone item (Virus Bulletin subscribers will be notified by email when the comparative is available to download). Non-subscribers can purchase VB100 reports here and VBSpam reports here.

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Posted on 01 August 2011 by Virus Bulletin

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