Tag: virus bulletin
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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…
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Throwback Thursday: Tools of the DDoS Trade
According to a recent report by analytics firm Neustar (summarized in a Threatpost blog post here ), DDoS attacks are on the increase, are taking longer to detect, and are costing firms more to fix – with an average loss per attack of roughly $2.5 million among those companies surveyed . Back in 2000, DDoS attacks…
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Throwback Thursday: Tools of the DDoS Trade
According to a recent report by analytics firm Neustar (summarized in a Threatpost blog post here ), DDoS attacks are on the increase, are taking longer to detect, and are costing firms more to fix – with an average loss per attack of roughly $2.5 million among those companies surveyed . Back in 2000, DDoS attacks…
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Virus Bulletin says a fond farewell to John Hawes
Ten years ago, when I joined the very small Virus Bulletin team, the risk of computer viruses accidentally spreading to millions of PCs was still considered very real. Hence my colleague John Hawes, who tested products’ detection of such viruses, worked in a sealed-off room elsewhere in the building, without an Internet connection, and behind…
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Virus Bulletin says a fond farewell to John Hawes
Ten years ago, when I joined the very small Virus Bulletin team, the risk of computer viruses accidentally spreading to millions of PCs was still considered very real. Hence my colleague John Hawes, who tested products’ detection of such viruses, worked in a sealed-off room elsewhere in the building, without an Internet connection, and behind…
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Throwback Thursday: Once a researcher…
VB was saddened to learn this week of the passing of one of the pioneers of the AV industry, Ross M. Greenberg. Ross Greenberg, author of Flushot, Virex PC, and telecommunications program RamNet UUCP: a man of diverse interests. Ross M. Greenberg was the author of Flushot , one of the world’s first anti-virus programs,…
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Throwback Thursday: Once a researcher…
VB was saddened to learn this week of the passing of one of the pioneers of the AV industry, Ross M. Greenberg. Ross Greenberg, author of Flushot, Virex PC, and telecommunications program RamNet UUCP: a man of diverse interests. Ross M. Greenberg was the author of Flushot , one of the world’s first anti-virus programs,…
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Throwback Thursday: A troubled world
In early 1991, the world was a troubled place – President George H. W. Bush had just announced the start of military Operation Desert Storm and conflict and violence were being reported globally on a daily basis. With this as a backdrop, the world of “indiscriminate” computer viruses which “victimise in a random and unpredictable manner”…
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Throwback Thursday: A troubled world
In early 1991, the world was a troubled place – President George H. W. Bush had just announced the start of military Operation Desert Storm and conflict and violence were being reported globally on a daily basis. With this as a backdrop, the world of “indiscriminate” computer viruses which “victimise in a random and unpredictable manner”…