No, I haven't fallen off the edge of the World [Again]....

Or been kidnapped by aliens, gone over to the dark side or gone down with a virus.

Sorry for the lack of blog entries over the last month or so, but I've been writing a conference paper for the EICAR international conference which will be held in Budapest, Hungary at the start of May. The paper has to be in by the 17th of March, so I'm running out of time fast!

However, that is not all that has kept me from posting recently, other things include:

• Lecturing at the University of Warwick on malware and internet security later this month, so my slides need to be updated and tweaked before then.


• Writing and submitting abstracts for this years Virus Bulletin conference to be held in Vienna, Austria this year.


• Analysing lots of new samples, they just keep coming!

Talking of Virus Bulletin, I've just had another article published in the March edition of their magazine. This one is on phishing. I'm also writing another one on 419 scams to be published in the April edition.

All of these above presentations and papers are extra work on top of my more usual workload, oh and also helping to deal with outbreaks both internally and for customers. Please note: The articles are written on my own time, not on work time.

Can anyone clone me?.....Oh alright, one of me is enough, or one too many ;-)

Normal, [once or twice a week postings] service will be resumed as soon as I can find that elusive 25th hour in the day, or I decide to give up trying to get any sleep at all!

But, to keep up with what has caught my eye in computer security, then check out my Google Shared Items feed, here.