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  • Throwback Thursday: Palm Breach

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 2000, when concerns were growing about malicious threats to the Palm Personal Digital Assistant. In the 1980s, no one left home without their Filofax. Today, of course, almost no one leaves home without their smartphone, but in 2000 the must-have pocket device was the Personal…

  • Throwback Thursday: Riotous Assembly

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to January 1994, shortly after Cyber Riot had emerged as the first virus capable of infecting the Windows kernel. Today, malware that affects the Windows kernel is ubiquitous – the majority of sophisticated attacks against Windows users have at least one component executing in the operating system…

  • Throwback Thursday: Sizewell B: Fact or Fiction?

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1993, when VB asked the key question: could a virus compromise safety at one of Britain’s nuclear power plants? 2010 saw the discovery of Stuxnet, which targeted industrial control systems in general, with the specific target of a particular Iranian nuclear facility — but 2010 wasn’t…

  • Throwback Thursday: What You Pay For…

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1996, when VB looked at what was available to protect your computer free of charge. Today, the ‘freemium’ business model is a familiar one, and one that we commonly see in the world of security solutions: businesses offer a product or service free of charge, but…

  • Throwback Thursday: Cabirn Fever

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 2004, when the first worm to spread from mobile phone to mobile phone appeared. Since it first appeared almost exactly 11 years ago, mobile malware has broadly followed the same evolutionary path as PC malware — but at a much faster rate. The first piece of…

  • Throwback Thursday: The Updating Game

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1997, when automatic updates of AV software were not the norm. We all know that the malware scene has changed almost beyond recognition in the last 25 years — one clear indication of that is the fact that, in 1991, we were being advised by the…

  • Nominations opened for second Péter Ször Award

    ‘Brilliant mind and a true gentleman’ commemorated through annual award for technical security research. During VB2014 in Seattle, we presented the first annual Péter Ször Award to a group of ESET researchers for their work on ‘Operation Windigo’. The award was set up to commemorate of the life and work of security researcher Péter Ször,…

  • Throwback Thursday: KAOS on the Superhighway?

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1994, when KAOS4 was discovered on the Internet. A new virus has been found on the Internet — today, this is an unfortunate fact of everyday life, and unless the virus is particularly interesting, not even noteworthy. In July 1994, however, the discovery of KAOS4 on…

  • Throwback Thursday: Macro Viruses & The Little Virus That Could…

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1999, when Melissa was causing havoc across the globe and VB presented a series of articles detailing all you ever wanted to know about macro viruses but were afraid to ask. Until recently, macro viruses were a thing of the past — true ‘retro’ viruses (as…

  • Throwback Thursday: Virus Writers

    This Throwback Thursday, we bring you a series of articles from the archives that looked at virus writers, asking ‘who are they?’, ‘why do they do it?’, and other pertinent questions. Recent years have seen a huge shift in malware writing – gone are the days of script kiddies and the lonely teenager wanting his…