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  • VB2016 programme announced, registration opened

    We are excited to officially announce the programme for VB2016, the 26th International Virus Bulletin Conference, which will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA 5-7 October this year. Ransomware & malvertising As every year, the VB2016 programme reflects what is going on in the world of security. With ransomware being such a hot topic, the…

  • VB2016 Call for Papers Deadline

    If you read our blog or follow us on social media, you can’t have missed the fact that the deadline for submissions for VB2016 is 18 March. That’s today! If you haven’t submitted a proposal yet, it’s not too late — you can read the call for papers here or go directly to the abstract…

  • VB2016 Call for Papers – Frequently Asked Questions

    The call for papers for VB2016 , the 26th Virus Bulletin conference, which takes place 5 to 7 October in Denver, CO, USA, is currently open. We’ve had some excellent presentations at recent VB conferences, and we are never short of high-quality submissions to fill the schedule. Nevertheless, we’re always on the look out for…

  • VB2015 paper: Mobile Banking Fraud via SMS in North America: Who’s Doing it and How

    While SMS has been declared dead many times, the service remains frequently used – and abused. In a paper presented at VB2015 in Prague, Adaptive Mobile researcher Cathal Mc Daid looked at fraudulent SMS campaigns, in particular those targeting banking users in North America. He showed how these campaigns tend to target specific banks and…

  • RSA and BSides San Francisco

    Next week, almost everyone with a stake in or an opinion on IT security will be in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference . I will be there as well, and although Virus Bulletin doesn’t have a booth at the event, I am looking forward to meeting old and new friends and discussing our…

  • VB2015 paper: Will Android Trojans, Worms or Rootkits Survive in SEAndroid and Containerization?

    Google ‘s Android operating system may have a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to security, but it’s worth noting that recent versions of the operating system have been hardened a lot. In a paper presented at VB2015, Sophos researchers Rowland Yu and William Lee look at two recent security enhancements, Security Enhancements…

  • First six VB2016 sponsors announced

    While VB2016, the 26th Virus Bulletin conference, is still more than nine months away, preparations for the event are well under way. Hopefully you will already have seen the call for papers – some interesting proposals are coming in, but there’s plenty of room for more, so make sure you get your submission in before…

  • VB2015 paper: Sizing cybercrime: incidents and accidents, hints and allegations

    How big is cybercrime? Various attempts have been made to measure the size of cybercrime around the world, or in individual countries, but how reliable are the methodologies used, and what do they actually measure? In the paper ” Sizing cybercrime: incidents and accidents, hints and allegations ” presented at VB2015 in Prague, ESET researcher…

  • More VB Conference papers and videos published

    11 papers and 9 videos added to our website. In the security industry, we’re used to people saying sorry: “sorry we chose a default password of 12345678”; “sorry we didn’t look after your personal data better”; “sorry we didn’t discover this huge vulnerability earlier”; and so on. In that context, my reason for apologising is…

  • VB2015 paper: Effectively testing APT defences

    Simon Edwards discusses how to test the potentially untestable. Like the term or loathe it, APTs have given rise to a new generation of security products that protect against these more targeted and sometimes more advanced threats. Often, such products come with bold claims about how they are able to fend off such threats in…