Category Archives: Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin conference paper 2017

Posted on Oct 9, 2017 by David Harley

Sadly, this is probably the last paper I’ll write for a Virus Bulletin conference. 16 VB papers is probably enough for one career, and at my age travel is more difficult than it was in the 1990s. 🙂 The abstract … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin paper #16

Posted on Aug 8, 2017 by David Harley

Well, it won’t be out till October 2017, but there’s some news about my latest (and probably last) VB paper on the ESET WeLiveSecurity blog site, and some of the other stuff that will be happening at my favourite security … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin 2014 Conference Paper

Posted on Sep 29, 2014 by David Harley

So now that the 2014 Virus Bulletin conference is over, here’s the paper – my 15th VB paper! – written by Eugene Rodionov (ESET), Alexander Matrosov (Intel) and myself: Bootkits: past, present & future And here’s the abstract: Bootkit threats … Continue reading →

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New Conference Paper: Virus Bulletin 2013

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 by David Harley

[Correction: in the paper Mac Hacking: the Way to Better Testing? it’s incorrectly implied that independent tester Thomas Reed tested with on-demand scanning rather than on-access scanning because he believed that it was how detection would happen in most real-world situations. … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin article, May 2013

Posted on Aug 4, 2013 by David Harley

David Harley,  Botnets of the Mind, February 2012, Virus Bulletin. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is made available on this site for personal use free of charge by permission of Virus Bulletin. Edited extract: ‘Hoaxers … use a … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin article, August 2010

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by David Harley

Another of my pet hobby horses: Mac security. This was commentary on popular attitudes to and misconceptions about Mac security, in the light of a survey conducted by ESET. No PDF version at the moment so here’s the link: Apple … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin, November 2007

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by David Harley

This isn’t actually one of my articles (so it has to be just a link to the version on the Virus Bulletin site): it was written by Martin Overton. However, it’s a review of a book called The AVIEN Malware … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin article, January 2007

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by David Harley

An article for Virus Bulletin from a more personal angle, looking back over 17 years in and around the malware management business. (I first became involved with that aspect of security the same year that Virus Bulletin itself came into existence.) … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin article, November 2006

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by David Harley

An article for Virus Bulletin on the popular conception of the anti-malware industry as a (sometimes) necessary evil. Here’s a bit of a teaser: …we are mistrusted by our customers, by the media, and especially by other sectors of the security industry. … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin article, October 2006

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 by David Harley

One thing that tends to get the anti-malware industry hot under the collar, or at any rate those of us with an interest in sound malware testing. Testing with malware created with the tester. In fact, several things about an … Continue reading →

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