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RSS botnets5 Steps Every Business Can Take to Guard Against Botnets
White Paper Robot networks and zombie armies may sound like names from science fiction. Unfortunately, they identify actual threats to information systems across the globe. By secretly invading business Internet connections, hackers and spammers can... [13 Nov 2009]
Why Organizations Need to Focus on Outbound Security
White Paper Spammers today send most spam through botnets, making sources of spam much more difficult to detect and stop. Email has become the most critical single application that individuals in the workplace use on a daily basis. [13 Nov 2009]
Understanding and Teaching Bots and Botnets
White Paper Bots and botnets suck, so what better teaching aid to help people understand them than a vacuum cleaner? The second in the 'Understanding and teaching.series, this paper is designed to both educate those who are not... [12 Nov 2009]
Understanding and Blocking the New Botnets
White Paper Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked, then contrasts the established model with startling botnet innovations that... [12 Nov 2009]
Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network
White Paper The rapid growth of botnets represents the greatest computer security threat facing individuals and corporations today. Fuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue... [12 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Storm has since shrunk in size for a variety of reasons, such as computers being disinfected or becoming dormant until needed again, and parts of the network being separated or switched to new, different botnets. [12 Nov 2009]
Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
White Paper Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditional mitigation efforts such as server... [11 Nov 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... [03 Nov 2009]
Webcast: 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... [06 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]
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]
