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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…

  • 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…

  • Little sympathy for breached Hacking Team

    Lists of customers, source code and zero-day vulnerabilities made public. The biggest security story of this week, and probably one of the biggest of the year, is the hack of Italian company Hacking Team . The story has been covered widely, for instance by Wired , Ars Technica , The Register and Forbes , as…

  • IEEE announces Anti-Malware Support Service

    ‘Software taggant system’ and ‘clean file metadata exchange’ discussed at previous VB conferences. Wouldn’t it be nice if providers of software packers included a licence key in the packer, so that anti-malware solutions could distinguish legitimate from malign use – and, if needed, blacklist those keys used by malware authors? And wouldn’t it also be…

  • ‘Mobile Thursday’ at the VB conference

    Record number of presentations dedicated to threats affecting smartphones. The significant increase in mobile threats is reflected in the VB2013 programme, which includes seven presentations on mobile malware. Security experts have always been fascinated by mobile security, a subject which has been covered at many previous VB conferences. As far back as 2002, T-Mobile ‘s…

  • VB2013 last-minute papers and keynote announced

    Hot topics to be covered at VB conference in Berlin. We thought that the 45 previously announced VB2013 papers, together with the panel discussion, already made for a really interesting conference programme, but this week has seen the addition of seven more exciting and topical presentations. For the last seven years, we have set aside…

  • VB2013 speaker spotlight

    We speak to VB2013 presenters Lysa Myers and David Harley about their research interests and what they aim to bring to the conference. The VB2013 conference takes place this autumn (2-4 October) in Berlin, with an exciting programme that covers many of today’s most pertinent security-related topics. In the build-up to the event we will…

  • VB2013 programme announced

    Exciting range of topics to be covered at VB conference in Berlin this October. The VB conference selection committee have been busily assessing more than 150 proposals submitted for this year’s VB conference and have now made their final selections. The more than 30 industry experts on the selection committee were tasked with reading, assessing…