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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up According to an Associated Press report, workers at the conference centre disinfected surfaces including food preparation tables, escalator handrails, desks and bathrooms to reduce the risk of the virus spreading further.

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

The Impact of Network Topology on the Spread of Anti-Virus Countermeasures

whitepaper Is countermeasure spreading more effective through one network than through another? It simulates the spread of countermeasures based on the idea that computer viruses and countermeasures spread through two separate complex networks - the virus...

Tags: network security

[24 Apr 2008]

Security breaches down - but at what price?

News On the other hand, to pay for this relative success in spreading awareness, expenditure on information security has risen from two per cent to seven per cent of IT budget since 2002, according to the survey.

Tags: breach, data

[23 Apr 2008]

Symantec Antispyware Solutions

whitepaper And while viruses and fast-spreading worms continue to pose a significant threat, the risks to desktop and client systems from spyware and adware have steadily increased, becoming a major challenge for IT security managers.

Tags: anti-virus

[11 Apr 2008]

Successive Interference Cancellation Algorithms for Downlink W-CDMA Communications

whitepaper Three new interference cancellation techniques suitable for the downlink of any CDMA system with orthogonal spreading are proposed. No prior knowledge of users' spreading codes or even their spreading factors are required for interference...

Tags: tdma - cdma, interference, code, spreading

[10 Apr 2008]

System Performance Comparison of Optical CDMA and WDMA in a Broadcast Local Area Network

whitepaper The performance of optical code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with wavelength-hopping/time-spreading codes is compared to that of a wavelength-division multiple-access (WDMA) system. The multiple-access techniques are applied in a time...

Tags: local area networks (lan), division, delay, optical

[10 Apr 2008]

What Time Is It? It's CRM Time!

whitepaper The CRM phenomenon is spreading across multiple industries and is being employed by companies, large to small, all around the world. What is all this hype about CRM? Who really needs it? Well, the hype stems from the promises of greater customer...

Tags: crm, crm, tracking, industries

[10 Apr 2008]

Should the Federal Government Backstop Insurance Industry Terrorism Coverage?

whitepaper Beginning with a description of why insurers cannot currently provide such coverage, it then discusses: the impact on those left unprotected and on the economy; whether insurers will return to the market or other risk spreading mechanisms will...

Tags: network security, risk, federal, insurance

[10 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment There are already signs that spreading every minor detail about one's personal life across the internet may be on the wane as a lifestyle choice, at least among the over-25s. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Podcast: There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery

whitepaper The bad guys are using more sophisticated tools to create viruses, worms, rootkits and other attacks, and malware is spreading faster than ever. Open networks and supply chain integration create great business opportunities but also substantial...

Tags: monitoring systems, vulnerability, vulnerability management, attacks

[31 Mar 2008]

A Parallel Algorithm for Finding Small Sets of Genes That Are Enough to Distinguish Two Biological States

whitepaper The technique consists of the following: a spreading model defined in the space of small sets of genes studied and centered in each feature vector considered; the designing of optimal linear classifiers under this spreading model; and ranking the...

Tags: parallel processing

[19 Mar 2008]

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere

News She said: "It needs more awareness and in the year 2008 e-crime is not a specialist crime anymore, it is something that is spreading out to take in all of organised crime. The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), Sharon...

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

[19 Mar 2008]

Google not afraid of economic storm

News Google, the world's leading search engine, has said it was well positioned to weather any economic downturn as its advertisers were broad based. A-Zs… Security from A-Z… Biometrics from A-Z… Broadband from A-Z…

Tags: google, advertising, marketing, economic

[18 Mar 2008]

NAS Virtualization Solution Evaluation Criteria

whitepaper It also overcomes the limitations with the traditional NAS architecture and allows implementation of Global Namespace across NAS devices spreading across different data centers. NAS virtualization provides the capability to effectively manage the...

Tags: storage management

[29 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08

Round-Up You almost certainly didn't undergo years of academic study to end up strapping RFID chips to the backs of bumblebees but that's exactly the fate of a group of boffins at a London university who are literally buzzing with excitement about the...

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, robots, open source

[29 Feb 2008]

Email Worm Modeling and Defense

whitepaper Email worms spread over a logical network defined by email address relationship, which plays an important role in determining the spreading dynamics of an email worm. Email worms constitute one of the major Internet security problems.

Tags: email

[19 Feb 2008]

Defending Networks Against Rapidly Evolving Threats

whitepaper The challenge for organizations today is to stay ahead of the increasingly interconnected threat from rapidly spreading and evolving viruses and spam campaigns, phishing scams, spyware, and other threats.

Tags: viruses, spam, protection, campaigns

[18 Feb 2008]

Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live

News A gang that specialises in the theft of banking information through Trojans is attempting to protect its work by spreading a rootkit that veils malware. Until late in December 2007, the Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit had been a proof of concept...

Tags: rootkit, trojan, malware, record

[10 Jan 2008]

Issues in Performance Evaluation of New TCP Stacks in High Speed Networks

whitepaper With the spreading of high-speed and long-distance networks, the standard TCP congestion control algorithm showed some limitations in exploiting full bandwidth utilization. TCP congestion control has been designed to ensure Internet stability along...

Tags: bandwidth issues

[19 Dec 2007]

You've got mail - but is it safe?

whitepaper The challenge for organizations today is to stay ahead of the increasingly interconnected threat from rapidly spreading viruses and spam campaigns, phishing scams and spyware attacks. Learn more about the technologies that can provide pre-emptive...

Tags: spam, threat, email, viruses

[12 Dec 2007]

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