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RSS attackWindows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment While Windows 7 will undoubtedly provide a revitalised challenge for Apple in the consumer space, the Cupertino company is already preparing its next attack. Apple reported record fourth quarter results this week,... [20 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is fake security software, often heralded by an ersatz dialogue box warning unsuspecting users that their PC is under attack by malware or that it's at risk of a virus infection. Scareware is bad for your PC... [19 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News William Beer, a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers One Security practice, said criminals are now very specialised in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, unprotected consumer PCs and the public's lack of awareness, which make them... [07 Oct 2009]
Thousands of Hotmail account details posted online
News Hotmail account logins and passwords have been posted to a public forum following a phishing attack. For more, see Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts on ZDNet UK. Several thousand users... [06 Oct 2009]
DDoS: A Threat You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Paper Distributed denial of service, otherwise known as DDoS, refers to a form of attack whereby a number of source IPs simultaneously send an abnormally large number of packets to a particular destination, thereby... [05 Oct 2009]
The Attacker Within: How Hackers Are Targeting Enterprise Networks From the Inside-Out
White Paper As enterprise defenses evolve, so too do the attack vectors leveraged by those seeking to bypass such controls. It is entering an era where attackers are no longer working to punch a hole n the fortress surrounding... [05 Oct 2009]
Stay One Step Ahead With Comodo 2048-Bit Certificates
White Paper If one is still using a 1024-bit certificate, one may soon be vulnerable to a "Brute-Force Attack". An exponential trend in computer processing power has resulted in the ability for criminals to compromise 1024- bit key... [05 Oct 2009]
An Anatomy of a Web Hack: SQL Injection Explained
White Paper The nation of SQL injection isn't new, but is still widely misunderstood and many sites are still vulnerable to attack. This paper shows how easy it is to penetrate the average website and gain information about the... [05 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper While patch management and system hardening have long been the basics for enterprise security, shifts in technology and attack patterns are changing the rules. As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet... [05 Oct 2009]
The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2008: Annual Report
White Paper Unlike other resources covering web site security, which focus on the technical aspect of an incident, the WHID focuses on the impact of the attack. The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a project dedicated to... [05 Oct 2009]
MagicNET: The Human Immune System and Network Security System
White Paper The solution not only overcomes limitations of traditional security solutions, but also enhances overall security by providing protection at each stage of the attack timeline. Most of the current security systems do not... [05 Oct 2009]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Paper When a guessed password allows access to the system, the brute force attack has been successful and the attacker is able access the account. Anti-Automation defenses are critical in today's web application security... [05 Oct 2009]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Latest Motivations and Methods
White Paper A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to intentionally deprive legitimate users of a resource (or service) provided by a system, typically by overloading that system with a flood of data packets from... [05 Oct 2009]
Password Interception in a SSL/TLS Channel
White Paper This attack was not possible against SSL/TLS due to both unavailability of the side channel (errors are encrypted) and premature abortion of the session in case of errors. This paper extends the attack... [04 Oct 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm... [02 Oct 2009]
