'Both the disease and the cure now differ significantly from their original forms.' David Emm, Kaspersky Lab.
Reports and statistics on unsafe computing.
The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.
Having spent a lot of time thoroughly analysing how bots work – studying the overall bot ‘ecosystem’ as well as the individual files, Luis Corrons has noted that they've achieved a certain level of autonomy, in such a way that they almost have a life of their own. We are still a little way from Skynet, but it is only a matter of time...
Chief Security Officer for Bit9, Ian Poynter continues the conversation started last month by Dr Vesselin Bontchev about whitelisting as an endpoint security technology, and explores some of the questions he raised.
VB sent roving reporters (aka anti-virus miscreants) Andrew Lee and David Perry to the Nevada desert for five days of non-stop hardcore computer security at the Black Hat Briefings and hacker convention DEFCON 15. Andrew Lee reports on Black Hat, and David Perry rounds up the fun and games (and serious business) at DEFCON.
Eric Filiol and Jean-Paul Fizaine report on the security weaknesses of the OpenOffice suite.
John Hawes takes an in-depth look at BitDefender's latest home-user offering, BitDefender Total Security 2008.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
Anti-spam news; Fighting spam using tar pits (feature)