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  • Virus Bulletin announces student tickets for VB2015

    87% discount for students and the option to give a lightning talk. A few weeks ago, we opened registration for VB2015 , which will take place in Prague from 30 September to 2 October. Today, we are pleased to announce a generous offer for students: those in full-time education can attend the 25th Virus Bulletin…

  • Throwback Thursday: Double Trouble / The Perfect Couple

    Once again this Throwback Thursday, we bring you not one but two (related) pieces from the archives as VB heads back to the mid-90s when a new era of viruses was believed to be dawning. In general, the experts of the anti-malware industry get things more or less right. Predictions may take longer to come…

  • Book review: The Florentine Deception, by Carey Nachenberg

    John Hawes reviews Carey Nachenberg’s debut novel. There’s a rather serious problem with fiction involving computers, and computer security in particular. It seems like any time a computer appears in a work of fiction, especially in a Hollywood movie or a TV show, any attempt to adhere to reality goes out the window. The ubiquitous…

  • Book review: Data and Goliath, by Bruce Schneier

    Paul Baccas reviews Data and Goliath ‘The Hidden Battles to Collect You Data and Control Your World’, by Bruce Schneier. This book has been difficult to review. It has proved tricky not because I didn’t enjoy the book or because it was boring or badly written, but because it was so pertinent. Every time I…

  • Throwback Thursday: When Love came to Town

    Once again this Throwback Thursday, we bring you not one but two (related) pieces from the archives as VB heads back to 2000 in the week of the 15th anniversary of the LoveLetter virus. On 4 May 2000, VBS/LoveLetter.A, also known as LovLet, ILOVEYOU and Love Bug, wreaked havoc across the globe and pushed the…

  • You are your own threat model

    For most people, the biggest security threat is that of themselves doing something they shouldn’t do. Last week, Microsoft wrote about the return of macro malware where, now that macros have long been disabled by default, social engineering is used to trick the user into enabling them. Although it was interesting to read Microsoft ‘s…

  • Report: six anti-virus solutions pass annual Linux test

    Clean sweep of passes in VB100 test on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 2015 will yet again not be the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’, yet behind the scenes’ Linux plays an important role in many organisations by running the servers on which files are stored centrally. Such servers could easily become centres of malware infection;…

  • POODLE is the brown M&Ms of security

    Just because it won’t be exploited, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t patch it. There is a famous story about the rock band Van Halen whose lists of requirements when performing a show included some M&Ms — but “absolutely no brown ones”. The story is true and has little to do with childish rock star behaviour. The…

  • Throwback Thursday: Regina v Christopher Pile: The Inside Story & Off with his Head!

    This Throwback Thursday, we bring you not one but two (related) pieces from the archives as VB heads back to 1996 to look at events surrounding the issuing of the UK’s first custodial sentence for writing and distributing computer viruses. Over the last couple of years, the ‘Throwback Thursday’ trend has taken the Internet by…

  • Throwback Thursday: Through the Administrator’s Eye

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1997 with ‘Through the Administrator’s Eye’. Over the last couple of years, the ‘Throwback Thursday’ trend has taken the Internet by storm, with social media users indulging in a weekly wallow in nostalgia. The VB team decided it was high time we got in on the act, using…

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