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  • Virus Bulletin’s job site for recruiters and job seekers

    Security is doing well. Not necessarily the security of your personal devices, corporate networks and critical infrastructure, but as an area to work in, IT security seems to be a pretty good choice right now. Indeed, according to some experts there will be one million job vacancies in IT security this year. Opportunities To help…

  • Throwback Thursday: The Number of the Beasts

    The Virus Bulletin Virus Prevalence Table, which ran from 1992 until 2013, gave users a regular snapshot of what was really going on in the virus (and later malware) world, each month recording the number of incidents of each virus reported to VB in the preceding month. In August 2000, Denis Zenkin, a self-confessed virus…

  • Throwback Thursday: ‘In the Beginning was the Word…’

    Microsoft has recently introduced a new feature to Office 2016 : the ability to block macros,in an attempt to curb the spread of macro malware, which is once again on the rise . Macro viruses first appeared in 1995, at a time when there were over 100 times as many DOS viruses in existence as…

  • Virus Bulletin publishes first web filter test report

    Virus Bulletin has been testing security products for more than 18 years, and in recent years, we have had many requests from product developers asking us to test their web security products. After all, whether malicious software is downloaded directly from websites or through sneaky drive-by downloads, the web remains an important infection vector. In…

  • Throwback Thursday: Peter-II – Three Questions of The Sphinx

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1993, when an ordinary memory-resident master boot sector virus spiced things up with a bit of pop trivia. Over recent years we have become used to hearing about ransomware extorting money from victims by locking up their devices and demanding a ransom in order for access to the…

  • Throwback Thursday: I say Virus, You say Trojan

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1998 — a time when anti-virus vendors avoided tackling non-replicating trojans, worms, jokes and corrupted files. Today, the idea of security vendors not tackling trojans or other forms of malware seems absurd, yet back in the 90s, anti-virus vendors argued that because, by definition, they developed anti-virus ,…

  • Throwback Thursday: A View from the Lab

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1997 with ‘A View from the Lab’. According to its website, the AV-TEST Institute currently registers over 390,000 new malicious programs every day. Back in mid-1997 though, new viruses and variants were appearing at a rate of over 250 per month, and according to Dr Solomon’s Software virus…

  • Throwback Thursday: Legal attempts to reduce spam. A UK perspective

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to November 2003, when spam was such a hot topic that VB decided to launch a dedicated ‘VB Spam Supplement’. While, today, spam is a problem that is generally very well mitigated, 12 years ago it was a subject of growing concern and was becoming of increasing…

  • Throwback Thursday: What DDoS it all Mean?

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to March 2000, when DDoS attacks were a newly emerging menace. Today, DDoS attacks are a well-known form of cyber abuse — indeed, even this week, Swiss encrypted webmail provider ProtonMail has been the target of a sustained DDoS attack. In early 2000, however, DDoS attacks were…

  • Throwback Thursday: Inside Sony’s rootkit

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back ten years, when the discovery of a rootkit ignited a firestorm of criticism for Sony. Rootkits are common among modern malware, and it seems hard to believe that ten years ago they were a little known phenomenon — that was until the discovery of the Sony rootkit…