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RSS spread maliciousWarning: The Storm still rages on
News It is also interesting to note the move from simply using social-engineering techniques to spread malware to actually exploiting vulnerabilities. The two possible avenues of attack are spam with links to the as-yet-unlinked-to fast-flux sites, or... [07 May 2008]
SmartSiren: Virus Detection and Alert for Smartphones
White Paper In fact, hundreds of smartphone viruses have emerged, which can quickly spread through various means such as SMS/MMS, Bluetooth and traditional IP-based applications. However, the flexibility of running third-party softwares also leaves the... [11 Apr 2008]
Fighting the Battle Against Zero-Day Virus Threats
White Paper New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is no longer good enough. Attacks from viruses and other malicious code can have serious consequences for your business. [10 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Scroggie said the spread of malicious code was expected to increase, with the growing use of portable data-storage devices. While the report found that most attacks continue to occur and originate in the US, China is becoming increasingly important... [09 Apr 2008]
Monitoring Network Traffic With Radial Traffic Analyzer
White Paper Extensive spread of malicious code on the Internet and also within intranets has risen the user's concern about what kind of data is transferred between her or his computer and other hosts on the network. [03 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Culture secretary Andy Burnham clearly thinks the spread of online piracy dangerously undermines the entertainment industries and dilutes the value of copyright law. Not all aspects of file-sharing are illegal and distinguishing the legitimate from... [22 Feb 2008]
Hardening the Network and Streamlining Security Administration With Symantec Enables City to Expand Web-Based Services
White Paper Turning to Symantec for comprehensive enterprise security solutions has enabled the city to end significant disruption from malicious code for all but the oldest systems, regain 41,000 hours in employee productivity lost to spam, and spot and... [17 Jan 2008]
Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News The MBR rootkit does not appear as a single file, which means the code can be spread across different sectors of a disk and therefore cannot be deleted as a usual file, according to research by GMER - a company that produces software that detects... [10 Jan 2008]
Passive and Accurate Traffic Load Estimation for Infrastructure-Mode Wireless LAN
White Paper How to effectively manage these WLAN networks and stop malicious intruders are the two main barriers for further spread of this technology. The exponential increase in the deployment of IEEE 802.11-based Wireless LAN (WLAN) technology has... [05 Dec 2007]
Trapping Worms in a Virtual Net
White Paper First, the speed at which a threat, such as an Internet worm, can spread, demands immediate information on just how dangerous it is and how it can be mitigated. While static disassembly of malicious code is the basis of understanding how it behaves... [15 Sep 2007]
Worst week for viruses in a year?
News Postini said two variations of the Storm Worm virus, which originally spread across the internet in January, have quickly driven global virus levels 60 times higher than their daily average. subject lines that contained a dot-zip file full of... [16 Apr 2007]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment Day said: "Now it's more about manual infection or self infection and pretty slow spread rates. While most IT departments are well aware of the risks posed by malicious code and spam, less well-publicised threats and practices are still finding... [28 Mar 2007]
Next-generation Skype Trojan hits web
News Miscreants have spread it via spam email, as well as Skype. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text "Check up this" and a link to a malicious executable called file_01.exe on a website, Websense said in an alert. [26 Mar 2007]
Fighting the Battle Against Zero-Day Virus Threats
White Paper New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is no longer good enough. Attacks from viruses and other malicious code can have serious consequences for your business. [13 Mar 2007]
Dot-gov safest domain around, says McAfee
News In contrast, one in 10 sites that end in dot-tk, the domain for the tiny island of Tokelau, either spread malicious software or warrant a warning because of pop-ups or other nuisances, McAfee said. A site with a red flag typically delivers... [13 Mar 2007]
