With rumors that Apple is planning to rush the casual online gaming market just as Facebook is planning social-net-centric smartphones, the two giants may end up as unlikely rivals. Can either steal the other's markets?
"Google launched a service to make it easy for publishers to sell digital versions of newspapers and magazines Wednesday, a day after Apple announced a controversial subscription plan for media sold through its application store. "
By David Harley, Pierre-Marc Bureau and Andrew Lee
Apple's customer-base has rejoined the rest of the user community on the firing line. This paper will compare the view from Apple and the community as a whole with the view from the anti-virus labs of the actual threat landscape.
By David Harley
This 1997 paper reviews the shared history of viruses and the Mac, summarizes the 1997 threatscape, and considers possibilities and strategies for the future. It's been made available for historical interest because so many people asked about it at EICAR 2010.
First published in Virus Bulletin 1997 Conference Proceedings.*
By Craig Johnston and David Harley
This paper looks at the ethical, political and practical issues around the use of "policeware", when law enforcement and other legitimate agencies use "cybersurveillance" techniques based on software that resembles some forms of malware in its modus operandi.
By David Harley and Randy Abrams
This paper considers the practical, strategic and ethical issues that arise when the security industry augments its marketing role by taking civic responsibility for the education of the community as a whole.
By Jeff Debrosse and David Harley
This paper considers steps towards a holistic approach to behaviour analysis, using both social and computer science to examine the behaviours by both criminals and victims that underpin malware dissemination.
"It appears that Warner Brothers has decided to take matters into its own hands, allowing you to purchase videos as an application, completely bypassing the iTunes location feature."