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Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment Malicious applications have also been developed that capture keystrokes as passwords are typed in, allowing an attacker to access applications and services that they should not through direct impersonation of others. [15 Oct 2009]
File Integrity Monitoring: Compliance and Security for Virtual and Physical Environments
White Paper When these devices are configured improperly, whether as a result of malicious hacker attacks or inadvertent employee modifications, the IT infrastructure may be exposed to security risk that leads to service outages and... [05 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News Another recent poll by silicon.com found that 62 per cent of techies consider malicious or incompetent staff as the biggest threat to their organisation's IT security, ahead of viruses with nine per cent. [05 Oct 2009]
Security for Windows Mobile Messaging in the Enterprise
White Paper One of the most difficult tasks facing enterprise network administrators is finding methods and technologies that can help prevent malicious attacks on their systems from sources located both inside and outside the... [04 Oct 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper Prevent malicious software with complete protection The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a non-profit corporation chartered to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America is reliable,... [02 Oct 2009]
Understanding Anti-Malware Research and Response at Microsoft: An Introduction to the Malware Protection Center
White Paper Viruses, Trojans, and other malicious software, as well as spyware and potentially unwanted software, are a constant concern for IT professionals. The use of social engineering continues to rise as an attack method, and... [02 Oct 2009]
Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
White Paper A single malicious input of coma can trigger high-complexity behavior such as deep recursion in a carelessly implemented server, exhausting CPU time or stack space and making the server unavailable to legitimate clients. [02 Oct 2009]
Securing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farms
White Paper One must carefully control who can access this information and take steps to protect platform from malicious users and content. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a platform for users to access, share, and... [02 Oct 2009]
Network Security for Unified Communications Infrastructures
White Paper It is no secret that the internet is inundated with viruses, spam and malicious hackers seeking to exploit vulnerable infrastructures, so it is incumbent on companies to protect their customer information - as well as... [02 Oct 2009]
PKI-Lite: A PKI System With Limited Resources
White Paper Such a PKI system provides safeguarding user information, protecting against malicious users, providing a safe domain environment and others. The aim of this study is to give some ideas about how to construct a PKI... [02 Oct 2009]
Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers
White Paper This malicious code can be spread through RFID tags, and deliver a payload to the soft-ware backend of the architecture. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)is a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a... [02 Oct 2009]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper Existing peer sampling protocols are either very vulnerable to attacks by malicious nodes, do not scale to large systems or provide only a static sample of the population. PuppetCast is a protocol for secure peer... [02 Oct 2009]
Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture
White Paper Experimental study shows that by employing the Fosel architecture, DoS attacks have a negligible chance to saturate the target by malicious packets. Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect... [02 Oct 2009]
Thwarting Insider Threat, Strengthening Communications, and Meeting Policy With Secure Internal Communications
White Paper Without email encryption, malicious, as well as curious, insiders have complete access to sensitive company information, including financial data, trade secrets, and customer data. Internal email, if unprotected,... [02 Oct 2009]
Security on a Budget
White Paper Preventing damage from malicious attackers, stopping the infestation of malware, and preventing theft and fraud is not cheap. Security is expensive, but not having security is even more expensive. But failing to erect... [01 Oct 2009]
