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  • Job vacancy at VB: Security Evangelist

    Virus Bulletin is a small company with a largely remote team based all over Europe that is placed at the heart of the IT security industry. Through its product testing, annual conference and ad hoc activities, Virus Bulletin works with security vendors, researchers and practitioners. We are currently recruiting for a ‘ security evangelist ‘,…

  • Throwback Thursday: The Thin Blue Line

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1994 when UK Fraud Squad detectives started making inroads into the most puzzling ‘Whodunnit’ since the Great Train Robbery. Had an outbreak of computer crime swept Britain? No, it was all part of a police training program. Last year, a total of 400 people from 16 nations participated…

  • Industry suffers loss of great researcher

    Untimely death of Peter Ször sends shockwaves across anti-malware community. We were shocked and saddened to learn, yesterday, of the sudden and unexpected death of security researcher and VB advisory board member Peter Ször. Peter was a true pioneer of the anti-malware industry and one of its brightest minds. His knowledge and enthusiasm knew no…

  • VB announces Virus Bulletin for Kindle

    VB joins the e-book generation. With millions of people now using e-book readers as a convenient way to read while on the go – or simply to cut down on bookshelf space – VB is offering Virus Bulletin subscribers the chance to download the magazine in .prc format. Issues of Virus Bulletin published within the…

  • Increase in use of mobile anti-malware protection

    Poll shows smartphone users more likely to use anti-malware protection on their phones than three years ago. In a poll of visitors to the VB website, 57% of smartphone users said they had no anti-malware protection on their phones – compared to 70% three years ago. While this is still a large number of unprotected…

  • 18 months for member of m00p gang

    Hacker receives prison sentence. A Scottish man who pleaded guilty last month to ‘causing unauthorized modification to the content of computers’ as part of his involvement in the m00p hacking group has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Today’s sentencing was the culmination of a joint operation between the UK’s Metropolitan Police and Finnish…

  • Almost three quarters use same password for different sites

    User continues to be the weakest link. 73% of computer users use the same password across multiple different accounts according to survey results released by security firm BitDefender . The survey revealed that 12% of respondents were willing to disclose their password to a stranger in order to discover whether it was strong enough. A…

  • Success in anti-botnet operation

    VB Seminar speaker describes how m00p gang member exploited computer users. A Scottish man pleaded guilty last month to ‘causing unauthorized modification to the content of computers’ as part of his involvement in the m00p hacking group. The case was the culmination of a joint operation between the UK’s Metropolitan Police and Finnish authorities who…

  • VB calls for collaboration amongst anti-spam vendors

    VB finds that, when it comes to spam filtering, a combined effort outperforms individual products. Virus Bulletin has discovered that running several spam filters in combination could be key to getting the best performance out of them. Following the last VBSpam comparative review of anti-spam products, the VB test team established that if the efforts…

  • Call for last-minute technical papers

    Submissions invited for technical ‘turbo’ talks at VB Geneva. Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those wishing to present last-minute technical papers at VB2009. The VB conference includes a programme of 40-minute presentations running in two concurrent streams: Technical and Corporate, covering topics that include in-the-cloud technologies, anti-spam testing, automated analysis, rogue security software, web…