botnets
RSS botnetsWebcast: Security convergence equals network security cost savings
White Paper You will learn how to get more out of your existing investments in network security, combat new Web 2.0, Web application and database threats without purchasing stand alone technologies, and how to protect your company from worms to... [20 Oct 2009]
Botnets and your Business
White Paper This MessageLabs White Paper looks at the botnet threat and how it has evolved into a serious danger to business. It also gives a snapshot of botnet activity based on data gathered by MessageLabs from 10-17 January 2009. [19 Oct 2009]
Q1 2009 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Report
White Paper Contained within the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) report for the first Quarter (Q1) of 2009 are news items regarding noteworthy cyber attacks and botnets, the individuals or organizations responsible for their... [05 Oct 2009]
Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover
White Paper Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. While botnets have been "Hijacked" and... [02 Oct 2009]
Web 2.0 Browser Exploits: What Hackers Know That You Don't
White Paper These backdoors create a daunting list of new challenges such as Botnets/ Phishing Attacks, P2P etc. Gone are the days when a simple URL Filtering solution took care of all the issues that arise from a company's Internet... [02 Oct 2009]
Editorial Preface: Special Issue on Intrusion and Malware Detection
White Paper These include viruses, spam, phishing, spyware, botnets, and other Web attacks. Welcome to the special issue of Intrusion and Malware detection. Detection of Intrusions and Malware remains a serious problem in the realm... [02 Oct 2009]
Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses
White Paper Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks have been replaced with botnets. There is one given in the IT security realm and that is change. The challenges faced by security professionals... [01 Oct 2009]
Risks and Defenses Against Web 2.0 Threats
White Paper IT management is expected to protect their enterprises from botnets, malicious active content, cross site scripting and more. In today's tough economic environment, IT professionals are asked to do more with less. [01 Oct 2009]
How Browser Exploits Lead to Web 2.0 Hacking
White Paper These backdoors create a daunting list of new challenges: Active Content/Malicious Code, Botnets, Phishing Attacks, Liablous blog postings, Data leakage and more. Gone are the days when URL Filtering took care of all the... [01 Oct 2009]
Internet Special Ops - Stalking Badness Through Data Mining
White Paper The paper will provide an overview of what data mining is, and provide several examples of how it is used to identify fast flux botnets and how the same techniques were used to enumerate Conficker. Today's Internet... [29 Aug 2009]
How to Defend Against New Botnets
White Paper According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. The ever changing nature of botnets make them hard to detect and even harder to defend against. How... [14 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News Spammers send emails with malicious attachments or URLs to millions of people to create botnets. Criminals also can lease existing botnets for specific campaigns for as little as five to 10 cents per bot. [07 Aug 2009]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper The paper also discusses Symantec's approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing... [05 Aug 2009]
Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report: Highlighting Global Security Threats and Trends
White Paper Threats that combine one or more online elements - the Web, spam, malware, and botnets - continue to grow in number and sophistication. There was an enormous amount of activity related to data and online security during... [31 Jul 2009]
Safeguarding Your Email Infrastructure: Inside Modus Technology
White Paper Botnets, fast flux and phishing attempts are examples of email-borne threats, and effective anti-spam technology must be able to respond to up-to-the-minute attacks, and incorporate deterministic and adaptive capabilities. [31 Jul 2009]
