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Close the Zero-Hour Gap: Protection from Emerging Virus Threats
White Paper Why the need for signature-independent outbreak protection is more important than ever. To exploit the "zero hour gap," or the time it takes to identify attacking malware and write signatures that detect and neutralize it, virus writers are using... [05 Aug 2008]
How to Protect Business From Malware at the Endpoint and the Perimeter
Financial motives are triggering a massive explosion of malware variants and spam designed to evade traditional signature-based detection mechanisms. Keyloggers, rootkits and Trojans are the fundamental building blocks of third generation malware... [12 Jun 2008]
How to Protect Business From Malware at the Endpoint and the Perimeter
White Paper Financial motives are triggering a massive explosion of malware variants and spam designed to evade traditional signature-based detection mechanisms. Keyloggers, rootkits and Trojans are the fundamental building blocks of third generation malware... [12 Jun 2008]
How to Defend Your Network from Sudden Zero-Day Attacks
White Paper Most worms and viruses do their damage while they're still new and unrecognized by antivirus signature files. How do you defend your network against emerging and unknown malware threats and zero-day attacks? [16 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products, increasingly purpose-designed by sophisticated criminal gangs, with product packers to defeat... [29 Apr 2008]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News It shows that signature based antivirus is not enough; you need more technology than that. C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as... [26 Sep 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The web at work
Comment And the IT department no longer has to worry about keeping signature files and other filters up to date nor about scalability. Meanwhile the volume of spam continues to increase - not just the number of messages but also their size as picture... [18 Dec 2006]
The A to Z of security
News When installed on a PC, antivirus software monitors and scans inbound, outbound and existing files to check for traces of infection - traditionally by using what is known as a 'signature database', a library of known malicious code used to... [14 Nov 2006]
CA antivirus deletes Windows component
News The problem for Windows 2003 and eTrust users occurred in a subsequent signature update from CA on Friday 1 September. Some Windows 2003 users have been experiencing problems with the operating system recently after antivirus software from CA... [04 Sep 2006]
Fileprint Analysis for Malware Detection
White Paper In the case of zero-day malicious exploit code, signature-based AV scanners would fail to detect such malcode even if the scanner knew where to look. Malcode can be easily hidden in document files and embedded in application executables. [09 Jun 2006]
What Mutating Spyware Reveals About the Future of Security
White Paper Most "mutating" malware in recent years has used these primitive techniques, which even basic signature-based solutions could handle with simple heuristics. Spyware is literally evolving - mutating in the wild to avoid detection. [28 Apr 2006]
Spyware Profiling: Technology Today for Tomorrow's Threats
White Paper Sophisticated spyware mutates, neatly sidestepping signature-based solutions; likewise, spyware is too complex to be ensnared by the behavior-based solutions that other malware-fighters utilize. Traditional malware-fighting methods do not provide... [14 Apr 2006]
Spyware Profiling
White Paper Sophisticated spyware mutates, neatly sidestepping signature-based solutions; likewise, spyware is too complex to be ensnared by the behavior-based solutions that other malware-fighters utilize. Traditional malware-fighting methods do not provide... [14 Apr 2006]
Preventing Malicious Spyware And Other Malware In the Extended Enterprise:Why Mobile and Remote Users Need New Threat Protection Software
White Paper No longer are signature-based technologies enough. Is your enterprise currently being affected by malicious spyware or other malware? Please join Neil MacDonald, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research, and Vlad Gorelik, CTO, Sana Security, for... [20 Jul 2005]
Phishing email targets Red Hat users
News According to the company's website: "All official updates for Red Hat products are digitally signed and should not be installed unless they are correctly signed and the signature is verified. Windows users have been successfully targeted a number... [25 Oct 2004]
