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The Extraordinary Failure of Anti-Virus Technology

whitepaper Virus-infected computers become an exploitable resource for hackers, who assemble and control networks of thousands of "zombie" computers, which are used to mount "denial of service" attacks, distribute huge volumes of spam and distribute more...

Tags: anti-hacking

[11 Apr 2008]

Zombies: The Digital Undead

whitepaper A zombie is a computer that has been compromised by attackers, typically for the purpose of sending spam e-mail and viruses to literally millions of recipients. Today's hackers (the "zombie masters") have become so sophisticated that they have...

Tags: intrusion detection systems, spam, mail, corporate networks

[10 Apr 2008]

Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats

whitepaper 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.

Tags: spyware, threat, send, spam

[08 Apr 2008]

Stopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats

whitepaper 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.

Tags: protection, computers, spam, send

[08 Apr 2008]

Anti-Spam Effectiveness: Is Your Current Solution Up to Par?

whitepaper The use of massive networks of spam sending zombie machines has driven spam volumes through the roof while seriously impairing the effectiveness of blacklists and other reputation-based anti-spam solutions.

Tags: infrastructure management, spam, techniques, threats

[07 Apr 2008]

Managing Complexity with Integrated Message Management

whitepaper While the rapid and continued evolution of email threats such as directory harvesting, phishing and zombie attacks have been well publicized in the past year, the newest messaging threat stems from the widespread use of Instant Messaging (IM) by...

Tags: messaging, threats, instant messaging, regulations

[20 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up Now, most of the Round-Up's notifications are to do with challenges to reveal its inner chav, posts to its multimedia ultra-wall and invitations to become a zombie. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

Webcast: Zombies: The Digital Undead

whitepaper Like the living dead, armies of "zombie" computers are disrupting corporate networks and sucking the life out of business-critical systems around the world. Zombies strike fear into the hearts of IT personnel responsible for maintenance of...

Tags: corporate networks, zombies, techrepublic, personnel

[12 Dec 2007]

Webcast: Zombies: The Digital Undead

whitepaper Like the living dead, armies of "zombie" computers are disrupting corporate networks and sucking the life out of business-critical systems around the world. Zombies strike fear into the hearts of IT personnel responsible for maintenance of...

Tags: network security, corporate networks, zombies, life

[12 Dec 2007]

Solving the spyware problem

whitepaper The paper describes the various ways that hackers exploit the information they steal with spyware, as well as the damages that can result if one of your computers is hijacked and used as a spam relay during a zombie attack.

Tags: spyware, protection, spam, risks

[12 Dec 2007]

Solving the spyware problem

whitepaper The paper describes the various ways that hackers exploit the information they steal with spyware, as well as the damages that can result if one of your computers is hijacked and used as a spam relay during a zombie attack.

Tags: protection, spyware, threat, spam

[12 Dec 2007]

Webcast: Taking Control of E-mail Security: How to Stay Ahead of the Latest Threats

whitepaper How to deploy a multi-tiered defense against spam, viruses, and outbreaks originating from distributed "zombie" computers Is your organization being inundated with unwanted junk mail? Have you deployed an anti-spam solution but found that the...

Tags: mail, spam, anti, anti spam

[12 Dec 2007]

Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning

News David Vella, product manager for GFI Software, told silicon.com: "We think it is running through zombie botnet hijacked PCs which are sending this type of new spam. The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to 147KB in size, feature a poor...

Tags: bandwidth, spam, mp3

[19 Oct 2007]

Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets

News The zombie army can be controlled remotely with the botnet creators usually trying to build the largest possible botnet of compromised computers to rent out to gangs for as little as $100 for a couple of hours.

Tags: f-secure, malware, botnet

[28 Sep 2007]

TechNet Webcast: Network Forensics: Identifying Attack Signatures (Level 200)

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast begins by displaying numerous trace files indicating network reconnaissance is underway on a network (operating system fingerprinting, IP scans, zombie-based scans, blind UDP scans, application mapping sessions, and...

Tags: tcp - ip, traffic, signatures, scans

[31 Aug 2007]

Sophos Case Study: Everyone.net

whitepaper After three years experience with Sophos securing its customers against viruses, spyware, and other malware, the company chose Sophos solutions to improve spam and phishing protection for users, and to safeguard its network from zombie attacks.

Tags: security applications, email, .net, sophos

[11 Jul 2007]

In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs

News The move is an attempt to crack down on the number of zombie PCs at large in the world as such compromised machines - known en masse as botnets - are the major source of rogue and malicious email and the US is the worst affected country.

Tags: malware, eden project, nasa, rsa

[15 Jun 2007]

Windows has fewest security holes

News The latest Symantec threat report, which covers the six-month period from 1 July to 31 December 2006, also reveals the number of 'zombie' PCs hijacked by hackers and used to launch denial of service attacks or send out spam has risen by almost 30...

Tags: microsoft windows

[23 Mar 2007]

Zombies: The Digital Undead

whitepaper A zombie is a computer that has been compromised by attackers, typically for the purpose of sending spam e-mail and viruses to literally millions of recipients. Today's hackers (the "zombie masters") have become so sophisticated that they have...

Tags: spam, mail, corporate networks, zombie

[13 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07

Round-Up Talk of robotic-zombie-assassins-against-African-ninjas naturally leads one to the eternal and colourful conflict between Apple and Microsoft. Anyway back to Penguin's Elek for the final words: "I'll be happy so long as it manages to avoid becoming...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[09 Feb 2007]

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