Campus Technology

Office and Penetration Testing Software Increasingly Becoming Vectors for Malware

Half of all malware that tried to infect computers during the third quarter of 2019 was already known, according to a new report from WatchGuard Technologies. The other half was "zero-day" malware, ...
Government Technology

Formation of Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization

AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, today announced its official formation and dedication to promulgating universally adopted standards and guidelines for anti-malware testing. The ...
WeLiveSecurity

Anti-Malware testing needs standards, and testers need to adopt them

Imagine one of your children is a high school student and due to take university or college entrance exams. You know the exams are due at some time during the year, have an idea what the exam may ...
eWeek

Anti-Malware Testing Working Group

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Anti-Malware Testing Working Group is a group of vendors ...
Dark Reading

AMTSO Widens Conversation Of Anti-Malware Testing With New Subscription Option

25th October 2010 - The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO, www.amtso.org), an international organization that encourages improved methodologies for testing security programs, ...
Dark Reading

Using Malware In Penetration Testing

Huh? That's the exact reaction I had when I first read the title for the blog entry "Pentest Evolution: Malware Under Control."The blog is by Gunter Ollmann and covers pen-testing from a historical ...
Krebs on Security

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of ...
Network World

Microsoft security tool fails malware detection test

There are many great choices out there for malware protection and detection. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s offering isn’t one of them. In recent tests by AV Test, the German lab that is pretty much the ...
Gizmodo

Operator of Malware-Testing Service Scan4You Convicted on Three Federal Charges

One of the men behind the Scan4You, a counter-antivirus tool used by cybercriminals to determine whether their malware would be flagged during routine security scans, has been convicted on three ...
The Hacker News

Researchers Spot Modified Shai-Hulud Worm Testing Payload on npm Registry

A new Shai-Hulud npm strain and a fake Jackson Maven package show how attackers abuse trusted dependencies to steal secrets ...
Network World

Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing

Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), which tests anti-malware products for effectiveness in protection, for the first time included the free version of the Malwarebytes software in the labs’ competitive ...