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Virus Bulletin relaunches VB Security Jobs Market for both employers and job seekers
We don’t like dramatic headlines here at Virus Bulletin , and whether there really are one million security job openings, as is often claimed, we don’t know (there probably aren’t). Nevertheless, it is true to say that there are a lot of security companies looking for talented individuals to work for them, whether as researchers,…
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Throwback Thursday: Anti-malware testing undercover
The testing of security products has been a hotly debated topic in the industry for at least the past two decades. It was, for instance, the topic of a popular VB2017 paper by ESET ‘s David Harley and will be the main focus of next week’s AMTSO meeting in Beijing, which Virus Bulletin will attend.…
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Virus Bulletin relaunches VB Security Jobs Market for both employers and job seekers
We don’t like dramatic headlines here at Virus Bulletin , and whether there really are one million security job openings, as is often claimed, we don’t know (there probably aren’t). Nevertheless, it is true to say that there are a lot of security companies looking for talented individuals to work for them, whether as researchers,…
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VB2017 paper: Offensive malware analysis: dissecting OSX/FruitFly.B via a custom C&C server
Few readers of this blog will believe that there aren’t any security issues with Apple ‘s macOS operating system, a point made rather unsubtly by yesterday’s discovery of a flaw that lets anyone log into a computer running macOS High Sierra – as the root user, no less. Those who have been following Patrick Wardle’s…
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VB2017 paper: Offensive malware analysis: dissecting OSX/FruitFly.B via a custom C&C server
Few readers of this blog will believe that there aren’t any security issues with Apple ‘s macOS operating system, a point made rather unsubtly by yesterday’s discovery of a flaw that lets anyone log into a computer running macOS High Sierra – as the root user, no less. Those who have been following Patrick Wardle’s…
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Tizi Android malware highlights the importance of security patches for high-risk users
A well-known security researcher once said : “if you purposely choose Android you are either Poor, Cheap, or really hate Apple.” Android has a bad reputation in security circles, though these days that is less because of a lack of effort on Google ‘s part and more because of the prevalence of many older devices…
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Tizi Android malware highlights the importance of security patches for high-risk users
A well-known security researcher once said : “if you purposely choose Android you are either Poor, Cheap, or really hate Apple.” Android has a bad reputation in security circles, though these days that is less because of a lack of effort on Google ‘s part and more because of the prevalence of many older devices…
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Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf
Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…
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Virus Bulletin to attend AMTSO, AVAR and Botconf
Next week, Virus Bulletin will attend a number of important security conferences in Beijing, China and Montpellier, France. In Beijing, security product vendors and testers will get together for a meeting of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). As a company with more than two decades’ worth of experience testing security products, Virus Bulletin recognizes…
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VB2017 video: FinFisher: New techniques and infection vectors revealed
Over the last few years, the infamous FinFisher government spyware (already the subject of a VB2013 paper ) has done a good job of staying under the radar. Recently, however, it made the news because of its use of the then zero-day CVE-2017-8759 and the likely involvement of ISPs in targets getting infected. In a…
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