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RSS blasterManaged Security Services for Small Businesses: Protecting Your Business Cost Effectively Through Outsourcing
White Paper Nearly every day, people hear about another security threat spreading across the Internet-Melissa, Code Red, Blaster, and Slammer, to name a few. As a small business, how vulnerable is theirs? More than likely, very... [01 Jul 2009]
Hawaii Safeguards Schools Statewide Using Intrusion Protection Systems From 3Com's TippingPoint Division
White Paper HIDOE's schools rely heavily on its wired and wireless LAN/WAN infrastructure for teaching and administration on notorious Blaster worm struck the Local Area Network (LAN). In 2004, officials at the Hawaii Department Of... [12 Jun 2009]
County Improves Security and Streamlines IT Resources
White Paper After being hit by the Blaster computer virus, which caused a 48-hour network outage, Fulton County began to evaluate network security issues. Fulton County, the largest county government in Georgia, covers more than 529... [07 Oct 2008]
A Quantitative Study of Firewall Configuration Errors
White Paper This assessment is indirectly affirmed by the success of recent worms and viruses like Blaster and Sapphire, which a well-configured firewall could easily have blocked. Firewalls are the cornerstone of corporate intranet... [01 Oct 2008]
Manufacturer Improves Productivity for End Users, IT Staff With Operating System Update
White Paper After mobile employees inadvertently infected their corporate environment with the Blaster computer virus, Furukawa Electric North America Automotive Products Division (FENAAPD) knew that it needed to find a way to help... [30 Aug 2007]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News RPC has been involved in several security bugs before, including in the vulnerability that let the Blaster worm spread. Cyber crooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack... [13 Apr 2007]
Me Code Write Good: The l33t Skillz of the Virus Writer
White Paper However, for every Blaster, there's a worm that repeatedly attempts to infect the same machine. Viruses and worms pose some of the most formidable threats in the modern computer security landscape. With some virus... [16 Dec 2006]
TCP/IP Stack Improvements in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
White Paper The presenters of this webcast also discusses security improvements that have been made in TCP/IP to enable a Windows 2003 Server to better handle DDOS attacks such as those launched by Blaster and MYDoom viruses. [13 Oct 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so some people believe the situation is getting better, when in fact it is getting worse," says Mikko Hypponen, chief technologist at security... [12 Apr 2006]
Police: Fancy arresting some hackers?
News A week later came SoBig, two weeks later came Blaster. The writers of those worms are still at large, although one teenager was convicted earlier this year for writing a variant of Blaster. The police... [10 Oct 2005]
Apple, Microsoft, Napster slammed over DRM
News Want to stream music throughout your home with Creative's Sound Blaster Wireless Music? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put the issue of DRM (digital rights management) in online music under the microscope -... [02 Sep 2005]
Virus alert: Windows 2000 worms begin to bite
News We are not seeing any one of these really soaring or escalating to something like a Blaster or Slammer," he said. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at television network ABC, cable news... [17 Aug 2005]
Is penetration testing breaking Herts on the internet?
News We might buy the latest Microsoft product and roll it out but we know from attacks such as Blaster and the like that it doesn't stop there. Hertfordshire County Council has signed a deal with security firm NetSec to run... [26 May 2005]
Microsoft drops Blaster writer $500,000 penalty
News Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teenager convicted of writing a variant of the Blaster worm, won't have to pay the $500,000 the court awarded in restitution as a result of the malware. The damages were to be paid to Microsoft... [30 Mar 2005]
14-year-old 'downed Microsoft homepage for four hours'
News The RPCSDBOT worm that the youngster created exploited the same software hole in the Windows OS as the Blaster worm, which saw another teenage virus writer in the dock. Jeffrey Lee Parson, now 19, was sentenced earlier... [14 Feb 2005]
