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Highlights from VB 2011 Barcelona

Oct

2011

This year, we had the privilege of attending the 21st Virus Bulletin International Conference in Barcelona, Spain.Researchers from Trend Micro presented three topics in the corporate stream and one topic in the technical stream. Ethan YX Chen covered file-fraction reputation for the technical stream on day 1. For the corporate steam on day 2, Max […]

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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

Oct

2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam

Oct

2011

Brett Cove from SophosLabs in Vancouver presented his talk, “Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam”, at the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona this morning. While there has been a lot of press about botnets being shutdown resulting in lower volumes of spam reaching our gateways, there has been very little discussion about tackling “snowshoe” […]

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