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Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650 customers. And the centre at Symantec's Reading HQ faces a growing threat, with a 140 per... [01 Aug 2008]
Web application security: automated scanning versus manual penetration testing
White Paper Web sites are vulnerable to Web application attacks and a great percentage of these attacks occur over the HTTP/S protocols, ports that are often exposed to the entire online community. It's essential for organizations to take serious measures to... [31 Jul 2008]
Eliminate Spam, Gain Productivity
White Paper Understand how cybercriminals profit from their activities, how they are becoming more sophisticated, and why they are targeting their attacks more narrowly to the point that they are selecting specific corporate departments and individuals. [23 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per day, as part of a global network monitoring attacks on computer networks for 650 customers. The centre immediately flag up attacks on its customers' systems, alerting the... [21 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News The devices are still vulnerable to sophisticated man-in-the-middle attacks, said Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley at the time of the rollout. Barclays claims to have reduced online fraud to zero among users of its two-factor... [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News But the analyst adds that criminals will also make use of the cloud to reduce the cost of heavy processing in attacks such as breaking encryption keys or finding vulnerabilities in software. Security software will jump off PCs and into 'the cloud... [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment If you're still in the mood for video, then you can follow that with our latest Video Cheat Sheet which looks at denial of service attacks and who is behind them. Of course, as well as the sparkling copy, one of the things that set silicon.com... [11 Jul 2008]
An Efficient Filter for Denial-of-Service Bandwidth Attacks
White Paper This paper presents an efficient method for detecting and filtering denial-of-service bandwidth attacks. The paper demonstrates that TOPS can detect bandwidth attacks in a standard benchmark dataset with a high accuracy and a low false alarm rate. [11 Jul 2008]
MULTOPS: A Data-Structure for Bandwidth Attack Detection
White Paper This paper proposes a heuristic and a data-structure that network devices (such as routers) can use to detect (and eliminate) such attacks. A denial-of-service bandwidth attack is an attempt to disrupt an online service by generating a traffic... [10 Jul 2008]
Efficient Intrusion Detection Using Automaton Inlining
White Paper Host-based intrusion detection systems attempt to identify attacks by discovering program behaviors that deviate from expected patterns. It presents a static analysis algorithm for constructing a flow- and context-sensitive model of a program that... [10 Jul 2008]
The Commons of the Tragedy
White Paper Half of Internet users - more than 53 million people - have gotten some kind of news about the attacks online. More than two-thirds of Internet users (69%) have used the Web to get news and information related to the attacks and their aftermath. [03 Jul 2008]
Secure and Affordable - Sun's Java Desktop System in Action
White Paper The Sun Java Desktop System combines both open source and open standards to lower costs, reduce complexity, increase productivity, and help eliminate virus attacks. This online demonstration from several Sun executives, including President and COO... [03 Jul 2008]
Internet Security Intelligence Briefing - Evolving Trends in Internet Usage
White Paper Also you'll find out about continued high level of online e-commerce fraud plus increasing complexity and potency of viruses and worms such as SoBig.F - including the high correlation between network-based attacks and online fraud. [03 Jul 2008]
WebInspect White Paper
White Paper WebInspect Scanner is security software that protects online organizations against web-application attacks. Unlike current security products that focus on network and server layers, WebInspect Scanner is a new type of Internet security product... [03 Jul 2008]
Protecting Against Phishing by Implementing Strong Two-Factor Authentication
White Paper This white paper from RSA Security Inc.describes the scope of the problem, including how typical phishing attacks are perpetrated, and explains how strong, two-factor authentication technology can protect both consumers and the online businesses... [03 Jul 2008]
