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Five reasons to submit a VB2018 paper this weekend
The call for papers for VB2018 will close this Sunday, 18 March (in fact, to ensure we cover the entirety of the deadline day across all time zones, we’ll close submissions first thing on Monday morning, European time). We’ve already received many great submissions, but more are always welcome. The VB2017 speakers all look like…
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First partners of VB2018 announced
We are excited to announce that all four Platinum partnerships of VB2018 , the 28th Virus Bulletin International Conference, have been filled. Both ESET and Tencent have partnered with the conference many times before and we are thrilled to see them return, once again at Platinum level. Both companies are very active in various aspects…
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First partners of VB2018 announced
We are excited to announce that all four Platinum partnerships of VB2018 , the 28th Virus Bulletin International Conference, have been filled. Both ESET and Tencent have partnered with the conference many times before and we are thrilled to see them return, once again at Platinum level. Both companies are very active in various aspects…
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VB2018: looking for technical and non-technical talks
Nine days from today, the call for papers for VB2018 will close. We’ve already received many great submissions (in fact, we already have more proposals than we have places to fill), but we like to get as many as we can to allow us to put together the best possible programme. As you will probably…
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VB2018: looking for technical and non-technical talks
Nine days from today, the call for papers for VB2018 will close. We’ve already received many great submissions (in fact, we already have more proposals than we have places to fill), but we like to get as many as we can to allow us to put together the best possible programme. As you will probably…
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Partner with VB2018 for extra visibility among industry peers
Preparations are under way for VB2018, or to give it its full name, the 28th Virus Bulletin International Conference – it truly is a global event, attracting speakers and attendees from all over the world. If ‘peer-to-peer’ didn’t already have another meaning, it would be well suited to describe the VB conference: it is here that…
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Partner with VB2018 for extra visibility among industry peers
Preparations are under way for VB2018, or to give it its full name, the 28th Virus Bulletin International Conference – it truly is a global event, attracting speakers and attendees from all over the world. If ‘peer-to-peer’ didn’t already have another meaning, it would be well suited to describe the VB conference: it is here that…
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VB2017 paper: The router of all evil
In recent years, we have seem a significant increase in malware targeting routers. Given that, unlike most endpoint devices, routers are often connected directly to the internet, and given that many of them have known vulnerabilities, it is easy to see why they are so attractive to cybercriminals. At VB2017 in Madrid last year, Symantec…
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VB2017 paper: The router of all evil
In recent years, we have seem a significant increase in malware targeting routers. Given that, unlike most endpoint devices, routers are often connected directly to the internet, and given that many of them have known vulnerabilities, it is easy to see why they are so attractive to cybercriminals. At VB2017 in Madrid last year, Symantec…
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Using Mailchimp makes malware campaigns a little bit more successful
Sending one email is easy. Sending thousands or millions of emails is hard: one effect of the anti-spam infrastructure we have collectively built is that the process of sending email scales very badly (even for those who only send legitimate messages). This is why companies tend to outsource their mail delivery operations to email service…
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