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Posted by Virus Bulletin on Mar 6, 2014

'Software taggant system' and 'clean file metadata exchange' discussed at previous VB conferences.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Mar 1, 2014

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

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 24, 2014

Eddy Willems' book is a pleasant read on an important subject.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 21, 2014

'Bitcrypt' authors confused their bytes and digits.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 19, 2014

No excuse for sending error reports in cleartext.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 13, 2014

M3AAWG workshop to deal with fighting telephony abuse.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 6, 2014

All solutions on test blocked at least 99.4% of spam, but some struggled with false positive issues; survey also shows few products support DMARC.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Feb 1, 2014

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

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Jan 31, 2014

Macros disabled in modern versions of Office, but enabled within many organisations.

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Jan 30, 2014

Sysadmins can check hashes of processes against file-checking service database.

No end to flood of fake friendly greetings.
No end to flood of fake friendly greetings. A further wave of e-cards carrying links to 'Storm' malware (various labelled Nuwar, Peacomm, Dorf, Zhelatin) has been hitting inboxes… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/storm-e-card-malware-keeps-coming/

DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom.
DDoS danger looms as infection levels boom. Repeated waves of the 'Storm' trojan attacks continue to be spammed out, with the latest using more eCards to hook in still more… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/worries-storm-forming-massive-botnet/

Mario latest lure to hook victims on malware.
Mario latest lure to hook victims on malware. Social engineering techniques used to trick computer users into running malicious code on their systems concentrate around simple… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/08/trojans-and-worms-hiding-behind-games/

Microsoft patch and greetings card spams bring more trojans.
Microsoft patch and greetings card spams bring more trojans. Several spam runs posing as vulnerability alerts from Microsoft have been spotted in the last week, with links to… https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/07/fake-updates-and-phony-postcards-carry-malware/

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