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News B is for Botnets Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack.
[07 May 2008]
Comment B is for Botnets The broadband society, botnets and the Russian Business Network were, as yet, largely unimagined dangers. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware.
[29 Apr 2008]
News B is for Botnets He explained: "As SDKs became more available for PCs people wrote malware, viruses, worms and applications that looked like legitimate things but in reality were stealing data. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London...
[24 Apr 2008]
News B is for Botnets The company noted that the sites of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and even security vendors, have fallen prey to malware attacks. According to Sophos, only one in 2,500 email messages contained malware - 40 per cent...
[24 Apr 2008]
News Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. B is for Botnets Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external...
[17 Apr 2008]
News While not new, the development of botnets remains a big security concern because the "fast flux" approach used by attackers to protect their robotic networks is making the life of botnet investigators difficult.
[09 Apr 2008]
News B is for Botnets The report also notes vulnerabilities in websites are increasingly popular malware vectors as they allow for more sophisticated and multi-stage attacks. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963...
[09 Apr 2008]
News Botnets ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that can harvest customer data or hijack machines. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.
[04 Mar 2008]
News B is for Botnets Drive-by downloads are caused by URLs that attempt to exploit their visitors and cause malware to be installed and run automatically. The Google researchers investigated billions of URLs over the past year-and-a-half, and found...
[20 Feb 2008]
News B is for Botnets The BSA warned that using unlicensed software also risks loss or corruption of vital data and IT systems, citing research by the IDC that revealed one in three counterfeit products contain spyware, malware or viruses.
[07 Feb 2008]
News Sjostedt said: "We've moved away from traditional, individual spammers, to loosely tied groups of spam senders, malware coders and people selling access to botnets. B is for Botnets While most spam relays are in Europe, botnets are global phenomena...
[07 Feb 2008]
News B is for Botnets The basic version of the tech - called Google Message Filtering - costs £1.50 per user per year and includes Postini's filtering system to block inbound spam and malware. Security from A to Z
[05 Feb 2008]
News B is for Botnets Rashke warned traditional security tools - such as firewalling - did not go deep enough into rich content to determine whether it was a security risk - either incoming as malware or outgoing as data leakage.
[31 Jan 2008]
News B is for Botnets A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is attempting to protect its work by spreading a rootkit that veils malware. Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit had been a...
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Exposure to malware like botnets, spyware, and other potentially harmful or unproductive Web applications can impact both your organization's security and performance. The most exploited Web protocol is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Exposure to malware like botnets, spyware, and other potentially harmful or unproductive Web applications can impact both your organization's security and performance. The most exploited Web protocol is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and...
[12 Dec 2007]
News B is for Botnets PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering.
[10 Dec 2007]
News B is for Botnets According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about hundreds of thousands of "bad" websites but is hoping its users will add to the list by completing an online form to report malware-hosting sites that are...
[04 Dec 2007]
News B is for Botnets Other major trends over the coming calendar year include an increasing threat to online services - such as banking - and the emergence of a complex and sophisticated malware market, according to the annual Virtual Criminology...
[30 Nov 2007]
Comment Botnets represent the volume business in the world of criminal malware. Many of these Trojans were self-replicating, which meant the botnets they created grew very large, very quickly. Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the...
[19 Nov 2007]
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