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'Whitelisting is currently nothing more than (admittedly careful and extensive) inverted blacklisting by AV software.' Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster.
Read moreBattista Biggio and colleagues assess the performance of popular open source spam filter SpamAssassin against image spam with obfuscated text.
Read moreThe AVIEN Malware Defense Guide has been written by members of the AVIEN/AVIEWS online communities with the aim of passing on knowledge that they believe will be both interesting and useful to those involved in the real-world battle against malware…
Read moreÁngela Blanco and Manuel Martín-Merino describe how anti-spam filters can be boosted by using an ensemble of SVM classifiers.
Read more'Why is the number of malicious attachments decreasing - and why shouldn't I be happy about it?' Paul Dickens, Institute of Physics Publishing.
Read moreJohn Hawes puts 10 anti-malware products through their paces on Novell NetWare 6.5.
Read moreThe blacklisting of exepackers by AV products is a controversial subject with opinions among the AV community varying widely. Gabor Szappanos takes a balanced view and discusses the pros and cons of exepacker detection.
Read moreBy blocking port 25 at the firewall, an organization can prevent a mass-mailer from spreading. However, by blindly blocking outgoing SMTP traffic, valuable data is lost on threats that use port 25. Vinoo Thomas and Nitin Jyoti discuss the benefits of…
Read moreIn the conclusion of his two-part article presenting an up-to-date evaluation of the security of OpenOffice, Eric Filiol looks at security issues in OpenOffice integrity management and draws conclusions about the overall security of OpenOffice.
Read moreHelen Martin reports on three packed days of presentations, networking, a little bit of gambling and a lot of fun at VB2007 in Vienna.
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