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  • Latest Virus Bulletin report shows the difference web security products make

    Extremely targeted attacks aside, when a user gets infected through the web, it means something has happened that should not have. Either the user clicked on a link they shouldn’t have clicked on, or they were browsing the web using unpatched software. Unfortunately, in both large and small organisations, these things happen a lot. And…

  • Latest Virus Bulletin report shows the difference web security products make

    Extremely targeted attacks aside, when a user gets infected through the web, it means something has happened that should not have. Either the user clicked on a link they shouldn’t have clicked on, or they were browsing the web using unpatched software. Unfortunately, in both large and small organisations, these things happen a lot. And…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ransomware would be much worse if it wasn’t for email security solutions

    Many experts believe that ransomware is set to become an even worse problem in 2017 than it was in 2016 — which is rather bad news, given the damage it has already done. Still, the problem could be much worse: a test of security products performed by Virus Bulletin in November/December 2016 showed that at least…

  • Ransomware would be much worse if it wasn’t for email security solutions

    Many experts believe that ransomware is set to become an even worse problem in 2017 than it was in 2016 — which is rather bad news, given the damage it has already done. Still, the problem could be much worse: a test of security products performed by Virus Bulletin in November/December 2016 showed that at least…

  • 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…

  • High spam catch rates continue in latest spam filter test

    US presidential candidates regularly see their emails blocked by spam filters. Yet again, there was good news for most participants in the bi-monthly VBSpam spam filters tests: spam catch rates for most products remained very high. There was good news when it came to false positives too. Solutions blocked few to no emails from the…

  • VB2014 preview: The three levels of exploit testing

    Richard Ford and Marco Carvalho present an idea for how to test products that claim to detect the unknown. In the weeks running up to VB2014 (the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference), we are looking at some of the research that will be presented at the event. Today, we look at the paper ‘ The…

  • AV Test releases Android test data

    30 mobile solutions tested for malware protection and speed hit. Independent test organization AV-Test has released its latest report, covering the Andriod platform. This major test of mobile solutions included 30 contenders, with offerings of varying complexity. As well as rating malware detection, false alarms and performance, extra points were given for including additional security…