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White Paper As employees surf the Web, they can accidentally bring in malware or visit sites that are restricted by the corporate policy. Current security solutions may not be able to detect these issues as more and more Web applications encrypt... [04 Jul 2009]
Zombie attacks on sale for a fiver
News The code, typically an iFrame, points the PCs to a separate website where they are then infected with a Trojan backdoor that reports back to the Golden Cash command and control server. Researchers at security firm Finjan... [18 Jun 2009]
Anonymous Proxy: A Growing Trend in Internet Abuse
White Paper Anonymous proxies are an unseen threat--a student's or employee's backdoor to malicious or productivity-sapping sites on the Internet. If your URL filtering solution relies on the old-school URL database/keyword... [18 Mar 2009]
Symantec Network Access Control: Comprehensive Network Access Control
White Paper The new wave of sophisticated crimeware not only targets specific companies, but it also targets desktops and laptops as backdoor entryways into those business' operations and resources. Network Access Control from... [18 Mar 2009]
Adobe patches hole after exploits found in the wild
News Attackers could take advantage of a hole on unpatched systems to overwrite memory with a buffer overflow and install a backdoor through which to control the system remotely. Adobe Systems on Tuesday issued a security... [11 Mar 2009]
Barts hospital virus: "Entirely avoidable"
News The antivirus software was also not configured correctly on some of the PCs, leaving a backdoor for the virus to infiltrate and permeate the network. The infection of computer systems at Barts and The London NHS Trust... [30 Jan 2009]
'We'll block police home PC hacks': Security vendors
News Kaspersky would not put a backdoor in its software to enable the police to bypass its protections, Em added. If we provided a backdoor, it could be used by malware authors," Em said. Two security vendors... [09 Jan 2009]
How Effective Is Your Antivirus at Detecting Spyware?
White Paper But what about keyloggers, backdoor trojans, adware and spyware? Sure, the antivirus software will protect the organization against viruses. It will probably even do a good job against worms. Recent statistics show the... [03 Dec 2008]
London hospitals still battling computer virus
News W32/Mytob.gen@mm is a mass-mailing worm and backdoor Trojan. Three London hospitals are trying to flush a virus out of computer systems 11 days after it first struck. Engineers at Barts and The London NHS Trust are still... [28 Nov 2008]
Placing Backdoors Through Firewalls
White Paper To accomplish this the attackers must install a backdoor which a) does it's job and b) is not easily detectable. The kind of backdoor needed depends on the firewall architecture used. This paper... [05 Nov 2008]
Medtronic Inc. Reduces Resume Processing Time by 87.5%
White Paper Medtronic, Inc.wanted to manage resume submissions from job applicants worldwide, through several channels and several locations and enforce a job application process for both applicants and recruiters, eliminating missed opportunities... [11 Oct 2008]
Web-based malware up 400 per cent
News The fastest-growing category of threats hosted on the sites was backdoor and password-stealing malware, which increased 855 per cent from May 2007 to May 2008. The amount of web-based malware on legitimate sites has... [06 Jun 2008]
Outlook Web Access: Your Company's Vulnerable Backdoor
White Paper Companies are relying on web-based technologies like Microsoft's Outlook Web Access to provide anytime anywhere access to email and information to their employees. The biggest win for the company is that by using this web based... [13 Dec 2007]
Google helping Utah with its searchable data
News We're creating a backdoor so we can copy all the pages and make the URLs part of our index so a user can find the result, click a link and be in that database. Google is set to announce it is working with officials in... [30 Apr 2007]
Virus alert as Storm Worm rages on
News Once a user downloads the executable file, the code opens a backdoor in the machine which means it can be remotely controlled, while installing a rootkit that hides the malicious program. Many home PC users may have been... [23 Jan 2007]
