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RSS system botnetsFirefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News B is for Botnets Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who... [27 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News B is for Botnets Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's reliance on the integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a "multi-factor problem" in light of the discovery of a fundamental flaw in DNS by... [14 Aug 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News B is for Botnets According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious code on... [23 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP addresses of the servers that command botnets, allowing it to spot attempts to connect to systems by botnet command servers. The centre immediately flag up attacks on its customers' systems... [21 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News B is for Botnets Barclays claims to have reduced online fraud to zero among users of its two-factor authentication system, PINsentry. Any user wishing to set up an online transfer to a new third-party account, other than a standard supplier such as... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News B is for Botnets Microsoft issued a security advisory on Monday warning about targeted attacks that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database-management system. [08 Jul 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News B is for Botnets West was unable to give guarantees of total security for data held on the National Identity Register and large NHS databases, saying he did not have the relevant information but added that "if a system is connected then there is a... [16 Jun 2008]
Cisco Protects Data Center Assets With Network-Based Intrusion Prevention System
White Paper To protect network availability and intellectual property, Cisco constantly monitors its network for a large assortment of threats, including insider threats, unauthorized access to data center assets, policy violations, such as privileged account... [12 Jun 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News B is for Botnets Every car is screened against a network of police and government databases, with the system able to instantly trigger alerts about everything from suspected terrorists and stolen vehicles, to banned drivers and tax dodgers. [05 Jun 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News B is for Botnets Thakur noted that third-party applications rather than operating-system vulnerabilities were being targeted but that "only time will allow the method employed in this wave of attacks to be confirmed". [07 May 2008]
Single-sign-on system makes sense for logistics firm
News B is for Botnets The system, called Onesign Single Sign On from Imprivata, provides a central repository for users to log into, where they can receive automatically generated passwords for the applications they need to access. [21 Apr 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News B is for Botnets Clayton found that part of Phorm's system involves mediating web page requests between users and ISPs. While Phorm could always just switch off its web server in the event of attack, said Clayton, he said the system makes browsing... [18 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News B is for Botnets And Hyper-V has the full attack surface of any operating system, which is not a good thing. He said: "We reduce the scope of threats because we reduce the attack surface of the operating system. [16 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment B is for Botnets ISO 27001 is a standard on how to set up a management system," Cole says. It tells you what is expected of an information security management system. Simply throwing a firewall at your system won't cut it, says Ross Anderson... [28 Mar 2008]
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 During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency... [15 Feb 2008]
