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  • Massive data breach confirms what you already knew: you are getting spam

    The security community spends a lot of time and effort researching the infrastructure used by spammers to send billions of unwanted and often malicious emails every day – but there is something else spammers need in order to send you their emails: your email address. Security researcher Benoît Ancel’s recent discovery of various databases used by…

  • Massive data breach confirms what you already knew: you are getting spam

    The security community spends a lot of time and effort researching the infrastructure used by spammers to send billions of unwanted and often malicious emails every day – but there is something else spammers need in order to send you their emails: your email address. Security researcher Benoît Ancel’s recent discovery of various databases used by…

  • Review: BSides London 2017

    This month, for the first time in its 28-year history, Virus Bulletin became the sponsor of another industry conference: BSides London . I have to admit to having been more than a little proud to see the VB logo displayed on the screens in between sessions. Of course, I was also happy to see lots…

  • Review: BSides London 2017

    This month, for the first time in its 28-year history, Virus Bulletin became the sponsor of another industry conference: BSides London . I have to admit to having been more than a little proud to see the VB logo displayed on the screens in between sessions. Of course, I was also happy to see lots…

  • Little sympathy for breached Hacking Team

    Lists of customers, source code and zero-day vulnerabilities made public. The biggest security story of this week, and probably one of the biggest of the year, is the hack of Italian company Hacking Team . The story has been covered widely, for instance by Wired , Ars Technica , The Register and Forbes , as…

  • ‘123456’ may be an adequate password to protect nothing

    Are we giving users the right kind of advice when it comes to password security? A recent data-breach at Adobe has shown once again that a lot of users choose the most trivial of passwords to protect their online accounts. But is this really what we should be focusing on? As data-breaches go, the recent…