Tag: anti-virus
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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…
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VB2017 preview: Stuck between a ROC and a hard place
Authors of security software in general, and anti-virus software in particular, have always needed to find the right balance between a high detection rate and a low false positive rate – something that has become even more important with advances in machine-learning detection technologies. Making the model too strict will result in false positives, while making…
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VB2017 preview: Stuck between a ROC and a hard place
Authors of security software in general, and anti-virus software in particular, have always needed to find the right balance between a high detection rate and a low false positive rate – something that has become even more important with advances in machine-learning detection technologies. Making the model too strict will result in false positives, while making…
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Modern security software is not necessarily powerless against threats like WannaCry
We have become used to the idea of cybersecurity stories sometimes making the mainstream news, but the UK’s newspapers across the spectrum, from broadsheets to tabloids, all opening with the same cybersecurity story – as they did on Saturday – is unprecedented. The reason for such a heightened level of interest was the crippling of the…
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Modern security software is not necessarily powerless against threats like WannaCry
We have become used to the idea of cybersecurity stories sometimes making the mainstream news, but the UK’s newspapers across the spectrum, from broadsheets to tabloids, all opening with the same cybersecurity story – as they did on Saturday – is unprecedented. The reason for such a heightened level of interest was the crippling of the…
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The Living Dead Anti-Virus
A former director of testing at AV-TEST and a one-time VB conference speaker , security consultant Hendrik Pilz is passionate about the quality of security products. In a guest blog for Virus Bulletin, he explains why he doesn’t think anti-virus products should be disabled. Just recently, security expert Robert O’Callahan (a former developer at Mozilla ) published…
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The Living Dead Anti-Virus
A former director of testing at AV-TEST and a one-time VB conference speaker , security consultant Hendrik Pilz is passionate about the quality of security products. In a guest blog for Virus Bulletin, he explains why he doesn’t think anti-virus products should be disabled. Just recently, security expert Robert O’Callahan (a former developer at Mozilla ) published…
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Researchers seek ransomware samples for their generic solution
VB2015 presentation to include demonstration of technique against recent samples. ‘The scary hack that’s on the rise’ is how Wired ‘s Kim Zetter described ransomware in an overview article posted yesterday. Indeed, encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to decrypt them has become a very lucrative cybercriminal enterprise. Of course, the best defence against…
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Paper: Hype heuristics, signatures and the death of AV (again)
David Harley responds to anti-malware’s many criticasters. Anti-virus is dead. After all, in the current threat landscape, who would use a system that relies on signatures of previously seen malware? At least, that’s what many security experts claim. ESET Senior Research Fellow David Harley has a long history in the security industry — so long…
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NSA, GCHQ found to target anti-virus products
Agencies looked for vulnerabilities to exploit and for submitted malware samples. New documents from NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden have revealed the agency and its British counterpart GCHQ have actively been targeting anti-virus companies, The Intercept reports . The agencies have been found to be looking for weaknesses in anti-virus products and to have obtained intelligence…