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  • Stalkerware poses particular challenges to anti-virus products

    Did you know that October has been Cyber Security Awareness Month? Of course you did ─ it has been pretty hard to avoid it. But did you know that it has also, at least in the United States, been Domestic Violence Awareness Month? These two are more closely linked than they may at first seem:…

  • Healthcare CERTs highlight the need for security guidance for specific sectors

    In February 2016, a US hospital saw a heart operation interrupted by the rebooting of a monitoring PC, caused by anti-virus software running on the machine. The report filed makes it clear that this was a case of someone not following the product recommendations, but the incident does highlight an important point: what is a…

  • Healthcare CERTs highlight the need for security guidance for specific sectors

    In February 2016, a US hospital saw a heart operation interrupted by the rebooting of a monitoring PC, caused by anti-virus software running on the machine. The report filed makes it clear that this was a case of someone not following the product recommendations, but the incident does highlight an important point: what is a…

  • Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates

    We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…

  • Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates

    We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…

  • Conference review: AVAR 2017

    The first week of December was packed with security conferences, and VB2017 speakers were busy presenting their research at no fewer than four different events: FIRST in Prague, Black Hat Europe in London, Botconf in Montpellier, and AVAR in Beijing. Security researchers were spoilt for choice, and while other members of the VB team headed…

  • Conference review: AVAR 2017

    The first week of December was packed with security conferences, and VB2017 speakers were busy presenting their research at no fewer than four different events: FIRST in Prague, Black Hat Europe in London, Botconf in Montpellier, and AVAR in Beijing. Security researchers were spoilt for choice, and while other members of the VB team headed…

  • Throwback Thursday: The beginning of the end(point): where we are now and where we’ll be in five years

    Over the coming weeks and months, we plan to use the Throwback Thursday slot to look back at and publish some great VB conference presentations from our archives. We start this week by publishing the recording of a VB2016 presentation by Adrian Sanabria, then at 451 Research , who gave a thought-provoking talk on the…

  • Throwback Thursday: The beginning of the end(point): where we are now and where we’ll be in five years

    Over the coming weeks and months, we plan to use the Throwback Thursday slot to look back at and publish some great VB conference presentations from our archives. We start this week by publishing the recording of a VB2016 presentation by Adrian Sanabria, then at 451 Research , who gave a thought-provoking talk on the…

  • Standalone product test: FireEye Endpoint

    FireEye is well known within the security community, both for its advanced protection products and for its regular research reports. Recently, the company launched a new version of its Endpoint Security product and, to demonstrate its commitment to being tested publicly, asked Virus Bulletin to run a short test on it. The product A public…