Tag: throwback thursday
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Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed
When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…
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Throwback Thursday: We’re all doomed
When a daily sports paper compares a national soccer crisis with the spread of an Internet worm, you know that the worm has had an enormous impact on everyday life. This was the case with W32/Mydoom when it first made an appearance in early 2004. Incredibly, despite its advanced years, Mydoom is still showing up…
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Throwback Thursday: Giving the EICAR test file some teeth
When in our VB100 test lab we set up an anti-virus product, one of the first things we do is to see if it works by making it scan the EICAR test file. This 68-byte file is supposed to be detected by any anti-virus product but does not perform any malicious activities and thus can…
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Throwback Thursday: Giving the EICAR test file some teeth
When in our VB100 test lab we set up an anti-virus product, one of the first things we do is to see if it works by making it scan the EICAR test file. This 68-byte file is supposed to be detected by any anti-virus product but does not perform any malicious activities and thus can…
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Throwback Thursday: Malware taking a bit(coin) more than we bargained for
In late spring of 2011, a sudden rise in the price of Bitcoin – reaching almost US$30, up from less than $1 barely a month earlier – attracted the attention of malware authors. They added mining capabilities to their malicious creations and made them look for Bitcoin wallets, while many websites added JavaScript code that used…
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Throwback Thursday: Malware taking a bit(coin) more than we bargained for
In late spring of 2011, a sudden rise in the price of Bitcoin – reaching almost US$30, up from less than $1 barely a month earlier – attracted the attention of malware authors. They added mining capabilities to their malicious creations and made them look for Bitcoin wallets, while many websites added JavaScript code that used…
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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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Throwback Thursday: CARO: A personal view
This week sees the 11th International CARO Workshop taking place in Krakow, Poland – a prestigious annual meeting of anti-malware and security experts which, this year, is themed “Going Back to the Root”. When CARO (the Computer Antivirus Research Organization) was formed on 10 December 1990, there were fewer than ten members. Membership increased slowly…
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Throwback Thursday: CARO: A personal view
This week sees the 11th International CARO Workshop taking place in Krakow, Poland – a prestigious annual meeting of anti-malware and security experts which, this year, is themed “Going Back to the Root”. When CARO (the Computer Antivirus Research Organization) was formed on 10 December 1990, there were fewer than ten members. Membership increased slowly…