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Political DDoS around the world

Jose Nazario (Arbor Networks)

'We have tracked tens of thousands of DDoS attacks ... A subset of [them] appear to be politically motivated.’ Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks

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VB100 April 2008 - Windows Vista Business Edition SP1

John Hawes wipes the sweat from his brow after completing a comparative review of 40 anti-malware products for Vista. With polymorphic trip-ups, false positives and stability issues in the fray it proved to be a tough test for the products involved.

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Sullied site stats

Increasing number of legitimate sites hosting malware, compromised sites remaining infected for longer.

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Chinese mobile spam investigated

200 million Chinese mobile users spammed.

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How wise are crowds when assessing phishing websites?

Tyler Moore considers the effectiveness of web-based participation in the implementation of anti-phishing mechanisms.

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Your computer is now stoned (...again!)

Mebroot - the MBR rootkit - is one of the most advanced and stealthiest malware seen to date. It operates in the lowest levels of the operating system, uses many undocumented tricks and relies heavily on unexported functions and global variables. In…

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European providers take proactive stance in security and anti-spam

EU service providers show improvements in anti-spam measures.

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How inbound traffic control improves spam filtering

Ken Simpson considers the implications of rising spam volume despite increasing accuracy of content filters.

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AVG Internet Security 8

John Hawes gets his hands on a preview version of the latest offering from AVG - AVG Internet Security 8.

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Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not)

Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier’s parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.

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