Bulletin

Malware teaching considered harmful?

Richard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology)

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.

All your MP3s are belong to us

Christoph Alme and his colleagues walk through the complete attack process of the Win32.ASF-Hijacker.A trojan, which has two different sets of victims: those affected by the trojan itself and those affected by media files altered by the trojan.

Evading CAPTCHA

Martin Overton looks at the use of CAPTCHAs in web security and at how cybercriminals are making increasing attempts to evade them.

The case for AV for Linux: Linux/Rst-B

A high prevalence of Linux/Rst-B seen recently on hacked Linux boxes is not due to ingenious spreading mechanisms or Linux users swapping binaries, but due to a proliferation of infected hacking tools. Billy McCourt has the details of this real,…

Prolific spammer jailed

Robert Soloway to remain behind bars for 47 months.

The secret life of old malware

'It may even come to pass that an entire class of malware gets forgotten because they are rarely heard of any longer.' Kurt Wismer.

VB100 August 2008 - Windows XP Service Pack 3

With a new set of samples to measure detection against, a new platform on new hardware and a selection of new products in the mix, John Hawes had his work cut out in this comparative review on Windows XP SP3.

Improving heuristics

Heuristic detection can provide valuable assistance to help security analysts in achieving zero-day malware detection. Newaz Rafiq and Yida Mao discuss a novel heuristic detection technique with a high level of accuracy and a high level of…

Neosploit business wound up

Infection kit no longer profitable.

Security companies splash out

New acquisitions for Sophos and Aladdin.