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Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide

whitepaper Today's cyber criminals are using highly evolved, blended malware to access corporate and customer data at an alarming rate. IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack. Additional layers of protection at the perimeter are...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

The Future Starts Now: Symantec Endpoint Protection V11.0 Available Today

whitepaper Director of Product Marketing at Symantec, provides a discussion on how Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver unmatched defense against malware such as viruses, worms, spyware, Trojans...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Securing Your Messaging Environment From External and Internal Threats

whitepaper Messaging technologies have become the communications life-blood of organizations today and their increased use has left them vulnerable to external attacks like malware, spyware and spam and internal threats like data leakage.

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

Protecting EMRs, Data Privacy and Hospital Interconnections

whitepaper Symantec Endpoint Protection helps the organization face the challenge of controlling laptops that sometimes carry malware when reconnecting to the network. Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News 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. The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Security+: The Foundation for Solid Network and Information Security

whitepaper New ways of hacking systems have resulted in viruses, spy ware, malware, e-mail bombs, worms, Trojans, spam--the list goes on! This whitepaper introduces the Security+ certification and the foundation for a career in Information security and data...

Tags: network security, viruses, networking, list

[30 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'

News 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, former advisor to...

Tags: criminals, schmidt, security, sdk

[24 Apr 2008]

Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds

News 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 fewer than 2007...

Tags: malware, email, web, security

[24 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Sales staff: Worst IT offenders

News While sales staff bleed corporate bandwidth dry with non-work related activity, the carelessness of home and branch workers is introducing malware onto the business networks, a survey of 250 UK IT managers found.

[11 Apr 2008]

Stealthy Malware Detection Through VMM-Based "Out-of-the-Box" Semantic View Reconstruction

whitepaper An alarming trend in malware attacks is that they are armed with stealthy techniques to detect, evade, and subvert malware detection facilities of the victim. On the defensive side, a fundamental limitation of traditional host-based anti-malware...

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast shows how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) and malicious software (malware)-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The presenter then explains how Microsoft IT cleans...

Tags: network security

[11 Apr 2008]

Towards More Effective Virus Detectors

whitepaper Viruses (or malware) are a scourge, with potentially unlimited fraudulent uses. The Internet has also brought an ugly side of computers: a plethora of malware. Smart viruses can hide, mutate and disable detection methods.

Tags: anti-virus

[11 Apr 2008]

From Traditional Antivirus to Collective Intelligence: Panda's Technology Evolution

whitepaper There is more malware than ever being released in the wild, and antivirus companies relying on signatures to protect users cannot keep up with the pace of creating signatures fast enough. As a result, the current installed base of anti-malware...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 Apr 2008]

"Out-of-the-Box" Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots

whitepaper Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying honeypots, especially high-interaction ones, largely rely on...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 Apr 2008]

Unix Shell Scripting Malware

whitepaper Unix/Linux binary malware can be very dependent upon distribution flavour and kernel version. Furthermore, the use of binary files as a starting point for virus infection may not always be very successful - starting off with a coredump will result...

Tags: anti-hacking, scripting, binary, interpreter

[10 Apr 2008]

The Challenge of Non-Viral Malware ...

whitepaper Viruses and worms, if they work, always have malicious intent. The result of a viral infection is essentially a denial of service, since it denies you the use of your computing resources until the problem is fixed.

Tags: security management, operation, attacks, measure

[10 Apr 2008]

Spyware, Adware, and Peer-to-Peer Networks: The Hidden Threat to Corporate Security

whitepaper This paper will explain these threats: spyware, the adware it supports, and the P2P networks that help spread this and other malware. The Emerging Internet Threats Survey 2003 provides several rather surprising statistics.

Tags: security management, threats, spyware, file

[10 Apr 2008]

Email Security Doesn't need to be a gamble

whitepaper CipherTrust provides a consolidated messaging security appliance which enables organisations to eliminate spam, viruses, malware and other email forms of identify fraud. Email security doesn't have to be a gamble

Tags: intrusion detection systems, forms, productivity, messaging

[10 Apr 2008]

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