Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 22, 2017
As has become tradition, VB2017 will once again see a security industry table football tournament. Register your team now for some great fun and adrenaline-filled matches in between sessions in Madrid!
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 21, 2017
Greater Manchester Police is one of many organizations still running Windows XP on some of its systems. This is bad practice, but the case against running XP is far more subtle than we often pretend it is.
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 21, 2017
Researchers from ESET have found a new way in which the FinSpy/FinFisher 'government spyware' can infect users, details of which they will present at VB2017 in Madrid.
Posted by Virus Bulletin on Sep 20, 2017
Activity monitoring by security products in general, and HTTPS traffic inspection in particular, are sensitive issues in the security community. There is a time and a place for them, VB's Martijn Grooten argues, but only when they are done right.
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 19, 2017
We preview the VB2017 paper by Fortinet researcher Axelle Apvrille, in which she looks at some less obvious tools for reverse engineering Android malware.
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 18, 2017
Researchers from Cisco Talos have found that a recent version of the widely used CCleaner tool installed malware on the machine.
Read morePosted by Virus Bulletin on Sep 15, 2017
Though ransomware is far more profitable than using a compromised PC to mine bitcoins, the global distribution of malware means that there are many botnets for which mining is the most efficient way to extract money out of a PC.
Read morePosted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 14, 2017
We preview the VB2017 paper by Julia Karpin and Anna Dorfman (F5 networks), in which they present a tool to decrypt encrypted parts of malware.
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 13, 2017
We preview the VB2017 paper by Marco Romagna and Niek Jan van den Hout (The Hague University of Applied Sciences), in which they thoroughly analyse the motivations and modus operandy of hacktivists.
Posted by Martijn Grooten on Sep 13, 2017
Proof-of-concepts for bypasses of security products always sound scary, but how seriously should we take them? VB Editor Martijn Grooten lists three questions one should ask about any such bypass to determine how serious a threat it represents.
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