On this page you will find links to selected IT-security related news articles from various sources, including news from conferences and some test results. Posts in this category might be written by externals and students. If you find some interesting news, please let us know!
For the second time, we ran an URL competition during the Virus Bulletin conference 2015. We plan to host a URL competition every year.
Conference delegates received a code to register for the competition.
26 Malware Hunters (from 14 different companies) joined the competition and submitted in total 238 URLs during the conference. Most of the submissions were 404, PUA, exploits that did not work on the target system or clean URLs/files. Continue reading…
OPSWAT analyzed the market share of 64 anti-malware vendors for their August 2015 report, and the top three anti-malware vendors in their data are Avast at 16.3% market share, Microsoft at 15.7% [without counting Windows Defender] and Malwarebytes at 14.5%. These numbers reflect only those installations where Real-Time Protection is enabled.
https://www.opswat.com/resources/reports/anti-malware-market-share-security-august-2015
In the Mac security comparative tests/reviews, we usually include only products of vendors which applied to get their security product scrutinized and publicly evaluated.
On the page below you can find a list of 25 relatively well-known Mac security vendors.
We get sometimes asked why we do not test all AV’s out there. There exist several hundred (several thousand worldwide, if we would count every rebranded security software or other various products providing some form of security). We usually include only about 16-20 of the most well-known AV products in our public main test-series. Some other can be found in our single product tests, several more are getting tested only internally.
On the following pages you can find a list of well-known AV vendors, just to give you an impression that there are more products out there than most of the users even known/heard about.
We got the Best Paper Award at the Malware Conference 2014 for our Paper: “Global and local prevalence weighting of missed attack sample impacts for endpoint security product comparative detection testing”.
In 2007, AV-Comparatives project won the second place (in Tyrol) of the famous Austrian Constantinus Award (country prize for e.g. IT consulting etc.). In 2013, we won the first place.
Below you can find some IT Security Tips for various topics:
