Schneier on Testing…
Certificate authorities issue SSL certificates to fraudsters
https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/10/12/certificate-authorities-issue-hundreds-of-deceptive-ssl-certificates-to-fraudsters.html
Safe Harbor agreement ruled invalid by top EU court
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/06/safe-harbor-agreement-ruled-invalid-by-top-eu-court/
10-Year Participation Awards
At VB2015 we handed out the 10-Year Participation Awards to Avast, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky Lab and McAfee.
Read more here (PDF).
URL Competition @VB2015
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…
List of AV Vendors (Mac)
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.
List of AV Vendors (PC)
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.
Best Paper Award 2014 @MalCon
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”.
Constantinus Award
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.
IT Security Tips
Below you can find some IT Security Tips for various topics:
- General guidelines in minimizing risks
- Online vulnerability starts with human vulnerability
- E-mail security
- Web navigation
- Safe online banking
- Safe online gaming
- Safe streaming
- Safe file download
- Safe social networking
- Online safety for website owners
- How to safely configure my WLAN at home?
- What should I do to prevent being sniffed while using a public WLAN?
- How to safeguard/protect my mobile phone?
- My website has been hacked – what should I do?
- How to configure my browser for higher security?
- How to check if my security product is working properly?
- How to prevent and repair browser hijacking
- Rogue security software (fake or rogue Anti-Virus)