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  • VB2014 paper: Exposing Android white collar criminals

    Luis Corrons dives into the world of shady Android apps. Over the next few months, we will be sharing VB2014 conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘Exposing Android white collar criminals’ by Panda Security researcher Luis Corrons. Android is by far the most popular operating system when…

  • VB2014 paper: DNSSEC – how far have we come?

    Nick Sullivan describes how DNSSEC uses cryptography to add authentication and integrity to DNS responses. Over the next months, we will be sharing conference papers as well as video recordings of the presentations. Today, we have added ‘DNSSEC – how far have we come?’ by CloudFlare’s Nick Sullivan. It is rather scary to think about…

  • Windows zero-day used in targeted attacks

    Vulnerability used to download BlackEnergy trojan – as discussed during VB2014. Today is going to be a busy day for system administrators: they were already on high alert following a rumoured vulnerability in SSLv3, and now they also know that a zero-day vulnerability has been discovered that affects all currently supported versions of Windows .…

  • VB2014 paper: The evolution of webinjects

    Jean-Ian Boutin looks at the increased commoditization of webinjects. Virus Bulletin has always been about sharing information, and the Virus Bulletin conference is an important part of that. We would love to be able to share some of the discussions attendees had during the lunch and coffee breaks, the late-night or early-morning meetings in the…

  • VB2014: Slides day three

    Thanks all for a fantastic conference and see you in Prague… or in Denver! Two days ago, a lively panel discussion closed what we can only describe as a fantastic conference. For those that were here, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we hope you found a lot of inspiration…

  • VB2014: Slides day two

    Another day of excellent presentations. The second day of VB2014 was just as successful as the first one, and saw 22 interesting presentations, divided over two parallel streams, on a wide range of security topics. They included the seven last-minute papers that were added to the programme only three weeks ago. Just as yesterday, many…

  • VB2014: Slides day one

    Almost £1,300 donated to WWF! The inaugural Virus Bulletin conference was held in 1991, making it one of the oldest security conferences in the world. It is also one of very few conferences that travels around the world. This year, the conference is taking place in Seattle, WA, USA and this morning, more than 400…

  • VB2014 previews: an overview

    Fourteen blog posts look ahead at the 24th Virus Bulletin conference. In just a few more hours, delegates will be able to collect their VB2014 badges before the conference really gets going tomorrow. If you are as impatient as we are but, unlike us, don’t have to spend the next few hours stuffing delegate bags…

  • VB2014 preview: Tech Support Scams 2.0: an inside look into the evolution of the classic Microsoft tech support scam

    Jérôme Segura looks at recent developments in malicious cold calls. In the weeks running up to VB2014 (the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference), we are looking at some of the research that will be presented at the event. Today, in the final entry in this series, we look at the paper ‘ Tech Support Scams…

  • VB2014 preview: Ubiquitous Flash, ubiquitous exploits and ubiquitous mitigation

    Chun Feng and Elia Florio look at exploits targeting domain memory opcode in Adobe Flash. In the weeks running up to VB2014 (the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference), we are looking at some of the research that will be presented at the event. Today, we look at the paper ‘ Ubiquitous Flash, ubiquitous exploits and…