phishing
RSS phishingWill Facebook Get You Hired or Fired?
White Paper Phishing is a common method cyber criminals use to lure individuals into giving up their personal information. Spear phishing is where the criminals target a specific group of users, for example all... [13 Nov 2009]
Why Organizations Need to Focus on Outbound Security
White Paper Clearly inbound email security - anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies - will continue to be very important. Email has become the most critical single application that individuals in the workplace use on a... [13 Nov 2009]
Converged Threats on the Security Landscape
White Paper The essence of a converged threat is the combination of viruses, spyware, phishing, spam and other attempts at attack or exploitation of vulnerabilities that can disrupt networks and/or lead to theft or unwanted... [13 Nov 2009]
Building a Better Spam Trap: Choosing the Best Defense for Tomorrow's Emerging Email Threats
White Paper SonicWALL Anti-Spam/Email Security solutions apply an integrated multi-layered approach to protect organizations from inbound spam, phishing and email-borne malware, as well as from outbound data leaks and botnet... [13 Nov 2009]
Malware in Email
White Paper Besides malicious programs attached to messages, email is linked to other threats such as phishing and messages containing links to infected web pages. Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. [12 Nov 2009]
Cybersecurity Review: Background, Threatscape, Best-Practices and Resources
White Paper To get an idea of the scale of the threat of cybercrime, it takes a look at the overall use of the Internet, theft or exposure of personal data through data breaches and the amount of money lost to a cybercrime called... [12 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper Other areas saw significant growth as well, from phishing attacks to crimeware, from vulnerabilities disclosed to zero-day exploits; 2007 was a big year for threats. As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect... [12 Nov 2009]
IronPort Email Authentication
White Paper The problems of spam, viruses, phishing and most email denial-of-service attacks can all be traced back to a single common cause - lack of authentication in the email protocol SMTP. This lack of authentication means that... [12 Nov 2009]
The Web Isn't Fun Anymore: How Websense Technology Protects Against Internet-Based Threats
White Paper Over the past several years, the Internet has become an increasingly dangerous place to work and to play, with viruses, Trojan downloaders, phishing, pharming, and malicious Web sites designed to take advantage of... [12 Nov 2009]
What Hackers Know That You Don't: Web 2.0 Weaknesses and Opportunities
White Paper While most enterprise users focus on the utility of these applications - how they can enhance their lives and work - profit-driven hackers are finding innovative ways to exploit these new technologies to spread their spyware, viruses,... [12 Nov 2009]
Astaro Security Gateway: Simplifying Email, Web and Network Protection
White Paper Anti-Spam & Phishing This brief yet highly informative interactive presentation discusses the Unified Threat Management Market, the fastest growing part of the security market in the U.S. A Unified Threat Management Box... [12 Nov 2009]
Remote Video Monitoring
White Paper While phishing, identity theft, malware and hackers are capturing the headlines, physical threats to Financial Institutions (FIs) are steadily rising, propelled by the economic downturn. Reducing risk through effective... [11 Nov 2009]
SWAP: Mitigating XSS Attacks Using a Reverse Proxy
White Paper Using cross-site scripting techniques, miscreants can hijack Web sessions, and craft credible phishing sites. Due to the increasing amount of Web sites offering features to contribute rich content, and the frequent... [11 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The new field provides valuable insights not just into 'Security' topics such as privacy, bugs, spam, and phishing, but into more general areas such as system dependability (the design of peer-to-peer systems and the... [11 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News In the early days a lot of the scareware was a smokescreen for a lot of phishing information - spyware that would look for your financial details - today they're really just designed to get that £15, £20, £30 out of you. [19 Oct 2009]
