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cTrojan targets companies' top brass
News B is for Botnets The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, said the spokesman, but the greater concern is the social engineering technique used to spread the Trojan-harbouring email. [26 Sep 2007]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News B is for Botnets Those threats from things like botnets that once might have been a silly academic exercise have become a real issue. B is for Botnets A content-based approach looks at the data and recognises how it can be adequately protected... [15 Feb 2008]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News B is for Botnets An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. Email security company Email Systems said it detected a global outbreak of MP3 spam from late... [19 Oct 2007]
Online casinos 'failing customers'
News B is for Botnets Out of the 100 UK online gambling sites contacted by customer services company Talisma, only 60 per cent replied to email enquiries and 16 per cent of calls went unanswered. Four-fifths of websites had separate systems supporting... [27 Nov 2006]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News B is for Botnets The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by basic actions such as visiting a malicious website, watching a video file or opening an email attachment. [12 Jul 2007]
Google launches online security tools
News B is for Botnets The tech works with any email system, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise. Google has launched a range of web-based security applications for email filtering, encryption and archiving. [05 Feb 2008]
Who's been reading your emails?
News B is for Botnets Email might seem like a private conversation - but the reality is if you are sending messages from a work email account there are a number of people inside your organisation, and potentially many more outside, that are legally... [30 Nov 2007]
How to detect data leaks
Comment B is for Botnets DLP tools incorporate a wide range of modules to protect sensitive data across the corporate infrastructure, including monitoring and protecting network gateways, email, end points and storage. [19 Mar 2008]
Google Apps hosts one big team talk over the web
News B is for Botnets Google Apps Team Edition is a free service that lets people within the same email domain collaborate easily with Google Apps, a package that includes Calendar, Docs, Talk and Start Page. [07 Feb 2008]
Data theft scam targets CEOs
News B is for Botnets Senior execs such as CIOs and CEOs are being singled out by increasingly sophisticated email attacks which one expert predicts could drive a wave of corporate data theft. While most email users are familiar with high levels of very... [02 Jul 2007]
Beware the insider security threat
News B is for Botnets Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Mike Roberts, IT director at private Harley Street hospital The London Clinic... [17 Apr 2008]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader B is for Botnets It was a pretty scattergun approach and the returns were in no way guaranteed, especially as people wised up to the fact their bank - never mind a bank they don't even have an account with - would tend not to email them out of the... [14 Nov 2006]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News B is for Botnets But Barrett said other measures are needed such as email certification. PayPal has brought in a number of tech solutions including digital email signatures - something that the company now does with 100 per cent of its outbound... [11 Apr 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News B is for Botnets Threats circulated via email, on the other hand, appeared to have cooled off during the first quarter of this year. According to Sophos, only one in 2,500 email messages contained malware - 40 per cent fewer than 2007, where one in... [24 Apr 2008]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News B is for Botnets The information in the contact list included individuals' names, company names, email addresses, telephone numbers of Salesforce.com customers and "related administrative data belonging to Salesforce.com", said Harris. [08 Nov 2007]
