Tag: testing
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The threat and security product landscape in 2017
Like many security firms, Virus Bulletin takes the opportunity of the start of the new year to look back at the threats seen over the last 12 months. In a report we publish today, we focus on ‘opportunistic’ attacks: the large-scale attacks that don’t focus on a particular target and that often aren’t particularly advanced,…
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The threat and security product landscape in 2017
Like many security firms, Virus Bulletin takes the opportunity of the start of the new year to look back at the threats seen over the last 12 months. In a report we publish today, we focus on ‘opportunistic’ attacks: the large-scale attacks that don’t focus on a particular target and that often aren’t particularly advanced,…
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Throwback Thursday: Anti-malware testing undercover
The testing of security products has been a hotly debated topic in the industry for at least the past two decades. It was, for instance, the topic of a popular VB2017 paper by ESET ‘s David Harley and will be the main focus of next week’s AMTSO meeting in Beijing, which Virus Bulletin will attend.…
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Throwback Thursday: Anti-malware testing undercover
The testing of security products has been a hotly debated topic in the industry for at least the past two decades. It was, for instance, the topic of a popular VB2017 paper by ESET ‘s David Harley and will be the main focus of next week’s AMTSO meeting in Beijing, which Virus Bulletin will attend.…
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VB2017 paper: The (testing) world turned upside down
Few subjects are as hotly debated within the security community as the testing of security software. Virus Bulletin has been at the core of many of these debates, both as a company with two decades’ worth of experience testing security software and as a facilitator through the Bulletin and our conference. At VB2017 in Madrid,…
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VB2017 paper: The (testing) world turned upside down
Few subjects are as hotly debated within the security community as the testing of security software. Virus Bulletin has been at the core of many of these debates, both as a company with two decades’ worth of experience testing security software and as a facilitator through the Bulletin and our conference. At VB2017 in Madrid,…
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Throwback Thursday: Ten memorable Virus Bulletin conference presentations – part 2
With an excellent conference programme featuring some of the top experts in the IT security industry and covering some of the most important topics, we have much to look forward to when it comes to VB2017 , the 27th Virus Bulletin conference. But we also often look back at past conference presentations, not just because…
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Throwback Thursday: Ten memorable Virus Bulletin conference presentations – part 2
With an excellent conference programme featuring some of the top experts in the IT security industry and covering some of the most important topics, we have much to look forward to when it comes to VB2017 , the 27th Virus Bulletin conference. But we also often look back at past conference presentations, not just because…
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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…