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RSS wormWho's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News The news comes against a background of high-profile infections, with a number of public sector bodies being hit by the Conficker worm. Despite an ever-increasing amount of malware in the wild, almost four in ten... [05 Oct 2009]
Nortel IT Implementation Steps for New Access Enforcement Program
White Paper The paper recognized that inadequately-protected computers connecting remotely to the network could be a vector for virus and worm propagation. In a given month, 80 percent of Nortel employees access the network remotely... [04 Oct 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm continue to evolve and keep security professionals in an unending game of cat and mouse. The traditional security approach... [02 Oct 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Typically, the site hosting the rogue alerts has been compromised, or a worm, like Conficker, distributes the alerts directly to computers. Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers... [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo It was inspired by the inch worm and uses grippers and extenders to pull itself through the bowel. While the debate over the future of technology in the NHS rages on, the next generation of surgical tech is already on... [15 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News These vulnerabilities are the most likely to be exploited by malicious code and are two of the best worm candidates that we've seen since Conficker," Marcus said in a statement. Microsoft on Tuesday issued five critical... [09 Sep 2009]
WordPress blogs under spam, malware attack
News A worm is circulating that can post malware and spam to some WordPress blogs using outdated versions of the blogging software, according to a post by Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. The... [07 Sep 2009]
Wyeth Enlists McAfee to Protect Global IT Environment From Pervasive Threats
White Paper Wyeth's IT security team identifies desktop and laptop devices that exhibit behavior associated with worm, virus, or spyware activity. Wyeth, headquartered in Madison, New Jersey, is one of the largest research-based... [01 Sep 2009]
Iron Mountain Delivers File Archiving Service
White Paper In this whitepaper, ESG focuses on how Iron Mountain's Virtual File Store allows organizations to securely and cost-effectively offload data, set and enforce retention policies, and save information in Write Once Read Many... [24 Aug 2009]
Advanced File Sharing and Management
White Paper A variety of backup/restore options gives administrators flexible data protection, and optional WORM capability for files and directories can help meet industry and government data-retention regulations. [15 Aug 2009]
Worm Detection Using Local Networks
White Paper The need for a global monitoring system for Internet worm detection is clear. In this paper, it used a large data set to review some of the worm monitoring and detection strategies proposed for large... [30 Jun 2009]
Capturing and Analyzing Internet Worms
White Paper Based on experiences analyzing real worms that use this method of worm propagation it developed a model that divides this attack into three stages: the exploit vector where the machine being attacked is still running its... [30 Jun 2009]
Taking Security to the Next Level
White Paper The latest report builds on previously gathered data, but also includes new sections focused on issues of security breach notifications, spam and phishing, Internet safety enforcement, and the storm worm - a highly... [30 Jun 2009]
Detecting Novel Network Intrusions Using Bayes Estimators
White Paper From the first appearance of network attacks, the internet worm, to the most recent one in which the servers of several famous e-business companies were paralyzed for several hours, causing huge financial losses,... [20 Jun 2009]
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
White Paper Some bots have replicative mechanisms, so also meet the definition of a worm or mass mailer, whereas others rely for propagation on external mechanisms such as spamming. Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's... [20 Jun 2009]
