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June

Password sweepstakes (comment); Chat-and-paste (malware analysis); MultiPlatform Madness! (malware analysis); Greetz from academe: Content-Agnostic Malware Protection (spotlight); Java: setting security manager to null (feature); Bitcoin mining: investing…
Malware Protection. John Aycock https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2013/06/

June issue of VB published

The June issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.
https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2013/06/june-issue-vb-published/

EICAR 2012

Eddy Willems presents a roundup of this year's EICAR conference in Portugal.
problems related to MS Access. John Aycock gave a controversial presentation describing https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2012/06/eicar-2012/

Stux in a rut: why Stuxnet is boring

John Aycock takes the controversial view that Stuxnet is really not that interesting at all. He outlines what makes a piece of malware a game‑changer and explains why last year’s headline hitter is not worth writing home about.
John AycockUniversity of … Helen Martin Abstract John Aycock takes the controversial view that Stuxnet is https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2011/09/stux-rut-why-stuxnet-boring/

September

Should there be an AV industry code of ethics? (comment); 'Holey' virus, Batman! (malware analysis); Qakbot: a disaster waiting to happen (feature); Hearing a PIN drop (feature); Stux in a rut: why Stuxnet is boring (opinion);
why Stuxnet is boring John Aycock takes the controversial view that Stuxnet is … hitter is not worth writing home about. John Aycock https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2011/09/

September issue of VB published

The September issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.
John Aycock takes the controversial view that Stuxnet is https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2011/09/september-issue-vb-published/

Malware teaching considered harmful?

Richard Ford and William Allen, both teachers of malware courses at Florida Institute of Technology, present their views on the teaching of virus writing as part of security courses.
Dr John Aycock put himself firmly in the industry’s cross … readers have had the opportunity to meet Dr Aycock at Virus Bulletin … his classes or by any of his students. Dr Aycock’s class was not the first example of https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2008/09/malware-teaching-considered-harmful/

Predictions about the prediction scam

The prediction scam has yet to make it into electronic format. A group of researchers from the University of Calgary get ahead of the game and explain how they believe it will work.
Canada John AycockUniversity of … future of prediction is on its way. John Aycock’s research is supported in part by the https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2008/02/predictions-about-prediction-scam/

Future threats

Research into future security threats is not always taken kindly by all members of the anti-virus community. Understanding the bounds of security research is important, however, when there is an increasing emphasis on proactive rather than reactive defenc…
John Aycock Department of Computer https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2007/abstracts/future-threats/

Conference report: EU Spam Symposium

Sorin Mustaca provides a roundup of this year's EU Spam Symposium.
one by John Aycock from the University of https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2007/07/conference-report-eu-spam-symposium/

May issue of VB published

The May issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.
John Aycock considers how such a https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/may-issue-vb-published/

May

Securing the Web 2.0 (comment); ANI-hilate this week (analysis); Beyond Virtu(e) and evil (analysis); Nirbot: targeted attacks get personal (analysis); Covert zombie ops (feature); Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 (product review)
John Aycock considers how such a botmaster’s command … might look. John Aycock https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2007/05/

Covert zombie ops

Can a botmaster send commands covertly to a botnet of over a million zombies and control them in real time? John Aycock considers how such a botmaster’s command channel might look.
John AycockUniversity of … John Aycock considers how such a botmaster’s command https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2007/05/covert-zombie-ops/

EICAR 2006 in a nutshell

Eddy Willems provides a roundup of this year's EICAR conference.
was written by John Aycock and Nathan Friess of the University of https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2006/06/eicar-2006-nutshell/

In Dublin's fair city

VB2005 was a double record breaker - Virus Bulletin's longest and largest conference to date. We were delighted to welcome well over 360 delegates to The Burlington hotel in Dublin for the debut of the event's new longer format - and, for the second year …
https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2005/11/dublin-s-fair-city/

Anonymous and Malicious

Zombie networks have been used for spamming and DDoS attacks. Worms have been designed to receive commands from their creator and automatically update themselves. But the combination of malware and powerful anonymous communication techniques has not been …
John Aycock Department of Computer https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2005/abstracts/anonymous-and-malicious/

June

Your computer is toast (comment); Standing the privilege attack (adware analysis); Problems in static binary analysis - part 2 (technical feature); Comparative review - Windows XP
John Aycock https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2005/06/

Your computer is toast

When will a silver bullet come along that makes computers work as well as toasters?
John AycockUniversity of Calgary https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2005/06/your-computer-toast/

University of Calgary teaches spam

Learnt how to create viruses? Now learn how to create spam and spyware
to the course. Course supervisor Prof John Aycock explains the reasoning behind the https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2005/02/university-calgary-teaches-spam/

School without thought - your thoughts

Your thoughts on the University of Calgary's proposals to teach virus writing in its course on computer viruses and malware.
disagree with your point of view on this. Dr Aycock will probably be forced to stop his course https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2003/06/school-without-thought-your-thoughts/

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