botnets in white papers
Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-Based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm
White Paper Botnets, i.e.networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to the central server and wait for commands. [04 Aug 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast... [13 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]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats
White Paper This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights how even organizations with reliable gateway and endpoint protection are vulnerable. [08 Apr 2008]
Stock Spam: A Classic Scam
White Paper Today, however, after a series of fumbles by amateurs, serious Internet criminals are taking this scam to new levels, deploying it through images, PDFs, botnets and more. The "pump 'n' dump" stock scam has been around since the inception of stock... [02 Apr 2008]
Botnet Threats and Solutions: Phishing
White Paper As a result of phishing via botnets, businesses and consumers are adversely impacted by tremendous financial losses, identity theft, and other damages. Off late malicious attacks involving tens of thousands of virus-infected PCs worldwide have... [29 Mar 2008]
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
White Paper This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on demand from Cisco will show you how botnets work, how attackers hide in plain sight, and how to flush them out. Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and phishing attacks get the headlines, but invisible... [30 Jan 2008]
Killing Botnets: A View From the Trenches
White Paper IntruShield is critical to pinpointing and disrupting botnet controlers and interrupts several phases of botnet infection in the ongoing war against botnets. McAfee IntruShield IPS protects telcos, Internet service providers (ISPs), enterprises... [08 Jan 2008]
Webcast: Why Today's SMBs Need Web Security
White Paper Exposure to malware like botnets, spyware, and other potentially harmful or unproductive Web applications can impact both your organization's security and performance. The most exploited Web protocol is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and... [13 Dec 2007]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper Download this paper to learn about Symantec's approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats. Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six... [13 Dec 2007]
Stopping Spam and Other E-Mail Threats
White Paper Find out about the newest schemes you face, including botnets and image spam. Spam, spyware, phishing, and other e-mail scams are wasting your valuable IT resources. And, despite industry predictions, the situation is getting worse. [26 Nov 2007]
What You Need to Know About Botnets!
White Paper Botnet controllers can be linked together to form even larger botnets and to replace another controller that is taken off line. Botnets controlling tens of thousands compromised hosts are not uncommon. [01 Aug 2007]
Arbor Peakflow X Provides Cost-Effective Security for Investment Bank Thomas Weisel
White Paper TWP's IT staff was spending too much time in often unsuccessful attempts to identify and block a growing number of worms, viruses, Botnets and other malware, including zero day attacks. Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) is an investment bank... [20 Jun 2007]
Detection and blocking techniques for combating spam
White Paper With these methods it is possible to respond to shifting tactics such as botnets that rapidly shift the source of spam messages to minimize the impact of spam on your business and eliminate the wasted time and resources spent combating the spam... [16 May 2007]
Detection and blocking techniques for combating spam
White Paper With these methods it is possible to respond to shifting tactics such as botnets that rapidly shift the source of spam messages to minimize the impact of spam on your business and eliminate the wasted time and resources spent combating the spam... [16 Apr 2007]
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