malicious software
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News There are also phishing attempts and messaging spam luring members to malicious sites for "free" games. Also increasing in number and frequency are data-stealing Trojans that use keystroke loggers and other software to record IDs and passwords... [28 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News In an attack on the DNS system, someone typing in a legitimate web address could be redirected to a malicious site without knowing it. In general, Perspectives is designed to guide users away from malicious sites. [27 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The arbitrary file download vulnerability in ActiveX could be exploited if the user visits a web page containing malicious code, Microsoft warned. The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and credential caching could... [13 Aug 2008]
A Secure and Scalable Internet Routing Architecture (SIRA)
White Paper Security: Internet core routers, which are essential for the routing infrastructure, are being targeted by malicious attacks such as Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and software bug exploits. [04 Aug 2008]
Family Assurance Uses Pointsec Protector to Underpin FAST Accreditation
White Paper Family Assurance deployed Pointsec Protector, with the ability to scan all incoming media for viruses and ensure it is non-malicious data only. The Family Assurance team wanted to take a proactive stance and use a sophisticated technology solution... [04 Aug 2008]
Riviera Hotel & Casino Hits the Jackpot With Check Point IPS-1 Intrusion Prevention System
White Paper To secure personal and financial data, the Riviera needed a comprehensive network security solution that could accurately detect and defend against any malicious network activity. IPS-1 keeps up with the fast pace of information that enters the... [04 Aug 2008]
mobilkom austria Utilizes Check Point IPS-1 to Secure Network Infrastructure
White Paper In an age of increasing network attacks, mobilkom austria needed an intrusion prevention solution that could accurately detect any malicious network activity. As the market leader in Austrian mobile communications, mobilkom austria interconnects... [04 Aug 2008]
Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Network Architecture: Gnutella and Freenet
White Paper Software developers and researchers are struggling to find new ways to reliably, efficiently and securely share data across wide area networks that are plagued by high latency, bottlenecks, and unreliable or malicious nodes. [04 Aug 2008]
Coming soon - malware threats to iPhone 2.0?
News Howard Schmidt, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, similarly noted in April that the availability of SDKs for mobile devices increases the likelihood of malware writers creating malicious code specifically for mobiles. [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by Google, found that Google itself was one of the top five networks hosting malicious web pages, largely due to the popularity among attackers of Google-owned networks such as Blogger. [14 Jul 2008]
Detection of Invalid Routing Announcements in RIP Protocol
White Paper However operational experience suggests that hardware faults, software implementation bugs, operator misconfigurations, let alone malicious attacks can all lead to invalid routing protocol announcements. [11 Jul 2008]
Indra: A Distributed Approach to Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention
White Paper While advances in computer and communications technology have made the network ubiquitous, they have also rendered networked systems vulnerable to malicious attacks orchestrated from a distance. On the other hand, software that guards against them... [10 Jul 2008]
Spyware Strategies
White Paper Ranging from simply tracking cookies to mining ID's and passwords on your computer using complex malicious programs, spyware produces enough trouble for network and desktop administrators that remediation solutions aren't only an option anymore... [03 Jul 2008]
Best Practices in SecurityArchitecture: Lessons from the US Department of Defense
White Paper You may squirm as they catalog a list of threats ranging from malicious code, to DOS, spoofing, back doors and the 'man in the middle' - but in the end, you'll be more relaxed knowing what they know. If you're responsible for protecting your... [03 Jul 2008]
Mazu Prevents Malicious Bandwidth Attacks with IBM and Linux
White Paper Realizing that its platform could be used against DDoS attacks, the team founded Mazu and went on to develop the software tools that have become the Mazu offerings. Finding the right operating system for the new software was easy. [03 Jul 2008]
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