Tag: vb2010

  • Throwback Thursday: Ten memorable Virus Bulletin conference presentations – part 1

    With an excellent conference programme (and still some gaps to fill !), 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 we are proud to have had them presented at our conference, but…

  • Throwback Thursday: Ten memorable Virus Bulletin conference presentations – part 1

    With an excellent conference programme (and still some gaps to fill !), 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 we are proud to have had them presented at our conference, but…

  • Stuxnet infected Natanz plant via carefully selected targets rather than escape from it

    Five initial victims of infamous worm named. Today, as Wired journalist Kim Zetter publishes her book Countdown to Zero Day on Stuxnet, researchers from Kaspersky and Symantec published blog posts that shine a light on how the malware spread to its likely target, the Natanz plant in Iran, and to hundreds of thousands of other…

  • ENISA calls for revised botnet measurements

    EU agency says current measures of botnet threat are misleading. European cyber security agency, ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has called for a review of how botnets are assessed and measured. Two studies by the agency are due to be published at a botnet workshop in Cologne today, evaluating both the botnet…

  • VB2010 conference programme announced

    Schedule for Vancouver security conference announced after bumper crop of submissions. Following a bumper crop of submissions, the VB2010 conference committee is pleased to announce the programme for VB2010 . Presentations cover subjects including: botnets, cyberterrorism, blackhat SEO, targeted attacks, Mac threats, anti-spam testing, anti-malware testing, in-the-cloud scanning and more. Later in the year a…