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 Computer Security Articles

----- 2000 -----

• On December 31st, 2000 TechRepublic published the comment piece "Trust me, I'm from Security"  (You need to be a member of TechRepublic <free> to see the article.)

• On December 12th, TechRepublic published the article "Using an application service provider to filter out viruses"  (You need to be a member of TechRepublic <free> to see the article.)

• In November, the Spanish website VIRUSPROT  posted the second part of  "LA SEGURIDAD DE SISTEMAS: ¿EN QUÉ NOS AFECTA?" - What affects our systems on-line?

• On November 15th, the SecurityFocus website published the third article in a series concerning objects which can be infected by viruses - Macro related files.

• On October 23rd, the SecurityFocus website published the second article in a series concerning objects which can be infected by viruses - Windows files.

• The Spanish website VIRUSPROT posted the first part of   "LA SEGURIDAD DE SISTEMAS: ¿EN QUÉ NOS AFECTA?" - What affects our systems on-line?

• The October issue of Monitor Magazine carries a review of Norton Personal Firewall 2000

• In October, the SecurityFocus website started with the first article in a series concerning the objects which can be infected by viruses or contain infected objects DOS system areas and 16-bit executables.

• The TechRepublic site contains an article "What's the next big virus coming down the pipe?" (You need to be a member of TechRepublic <free> to see the article.)

• The September issue of Information Security magazine contains the column "The Next War", a comment on the need to look at alternative approaches for finding viruses.

• The SecurityFocus website contains an article entitled "A Day in the Life", a look at how Virus Labs deal with the new viruses they receive each day. ( Pierre Vandevenne of DataRescue said: "The article is blatantly excellent: well written and technically accurate. Miles away from the usual ramblings on virus writer's psychology or the stealth propaganda served by anti-virus companies." )      The October 2000 issue of  Beveiliging, The Monthly Professional Journal For Integrated Security and Safety Reports, published a Dutch translation of this article.

• The SecurityFocus website has launched a special Virus Focus section, which contains an article entitled "Dealing with Viruses - Taking another look at the approaches used"

• The June, 2000 issue of Virus Bulletin contains "Do you Really Love Me" - a comment on Corporate Management and the Anti-Virus reality.

• The Enterprise Anti-Virus Book, published in May, 2000 by Segura Solutions

• The May 19th issue of Vida Económica published the opinion piece " Software Anti-Vírus Só É Excelente Nos Anúncios Publicitários" (English translation - Anti-Virus Software is only excellent in the ads)

• "Security: What, me Worry?" - appeared in the April issue of Monitor Magazine

 

----- 2001 -----

• On September 26th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece,  Honey, pack your bags appeared

• On August 2nd, at the  Information Security site, the opinion piece,  Sometimes we just have to hold our noses, appeared

• On August 1st, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece,  Roger Capcom, Standing By, appeared

• On July 30th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece,  Who do you trust?, appeared

• On July 17th, the SecurityFocus website published the article How Fast is Fast: Vendor Response to New Virus Reports.

• On July 7th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece,  Attack of the men in yellow!, appeared

• On the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece, Penny wise, Pound foolish?, appeared on May 21st.

• On April 18th, the SecurityFocus website published the fifth article in a series concerning objects which can be infected by viruses - HTML and other script files.  ("Robert Vibert has been a regular contributor to the SecurityFocus Virus focus area. His articles are invariably well-researched and well-written. They continue to serve as a valuable resource for our readers." Stephen Entwisle, Editor, SecurityFocus.com)

• Network Magazine has the article Snaring Rogue Code in their April issue.

• On the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece, The more things change, the more they stay the same, appeared on February 16th.

• The February issue of Information Security magazine contains the feature AV Alternatives, an overview  of non-scanning technologies for finding viruses, ActiveX, Java, and other forms of malware.

• On January 15th, the SecurityFocus website published the fourth article in a series concerning objects which can be infected by viruses - Archive and compressed files.

In January, 2001, Global InfoSecurity 2001 was published by World Markets Research Centre - a comment piece on the developments in the anti-virus world over the past years.

 

----- 2002 -----

• On November 28th, the piece, Can I interest you in a Zebra?, appeared on the Search Security site.

• On March 6th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece  Selling antivirus razor blades appeared

• On February 15th,  the SecurityFocus website published the article Organizations Cooperating to Stop Malware

• On February 6th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece  The continuing saga of the men in yellow appeared

----- 2003 -----

• On May 22nd,  on the SearchSecurity.com site an article Time to stop inventing virus wheels appeared.

• On May 8th,  on the SearchSecurity.com site a short PowerPoint show was presented on the malware threat.

• On May 7th, at the VMYTHS site, the opinion piece  Yellow Men protect the Open-Wide-Extra Operating System (OWE-OS) appeared