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Carefully crafted security attacks confirm the development of a malicious economy
F-Secure's Data Security Wrap-up for the first six months of 2007 looks at the top security threats witnessed by the anti-virus provider from January to June of this year. During this period, the F-Secure Lab saw a steady flow of reports on a vast variety of data security threats. The underlying trend to note was the spread of malicious activ...
FBI investigates cyber-criminals
The FBI has launched a series of arrests and investigations against so-called 'botherders' – alleged of committing computer fraud and abuse in violation of Title 18 USC 1030. The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber s...
Beware of slow and quick viruses
When the Internet had only barely begun, the only way of spreading viruses was via floppy disks. This is a very slow means of propagation, particularly in comparison to the speed at which viruses spread nowadays. To get an idea, the infamous ‘Friday 13’ virus (whose name originates from the day in which it deleted all .exe files on computers) took ...
Speaking Digipass card reader for blind and visually impaired Internet users
VASCO Data Security International, Inc. has announced that it has strengthened its Digipass product line with Digipass 840 Comfort Voice (CV). This "speaking" Digipass card reader is especially designed for blind and visually impaired Internet users. A person with reduced eyesight will now be able to have the same high level of Digipass sec...
Websense Content Protection integrates information leak prevention capabilities with Web categorisation and filtering
According to Forrester analysts Jonathan Penn and Thomas Raschke in the December 2006 report, "The Forrester Wave™: Information Leak Prevention, Q4 2006, “ILP [information leak prevention] solutions must be able to set policy and make enforcement decisions based on content or context... Context-based policy enforcement consists of understanding t...
GFI partners with St. Bernard to offer web-filtering solutions to the SMB market
GFI Software has announced that it will be entering the web-filtering market following the signing of an alliance with St. Bernard Software, Inc. This means that GFI will be able to offer web-filtering solutions to the SMB market in the next release of GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server later this year. Through this agreement, St. Bernard will be pro...
Microsoft IIS Web server are twice as likely to be hosting malware
According to Google, Web servers running Microsoft's IIS Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malware as other site servers. High profile cases such as computer hardware giant ASUStek who recently had their web site compromised, created a situation where visitors the website may have been attacked simply by accessing the site ...
GE deploys Sophos Security and Control solutions
Sophos has announced that GE will begin deploying Sophos's Security & Control solutions in 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, Sophos may be deployed on up to 350,000 endpoints (laptops, desktops and servers) throughout the world and within every division of the company. Seeking to improve manageability and reduce costs which arise from ma...
Incorrect configuration can open Web sites to application security attacks
Some of the most common and dangerous application security vulnerabilities that exist in ASP.NET Web-based applications come not from the C# or VB.NET code that make up its pages and service methods, but instead from the XML code that makes up its Web.config files. Incorrect configurations can open Web sites to application security holes such as se...
Hackers have created a new class of highly evasive attacks
Finjan's new Web Security Trends Report focuses on a new genre of highly sophisticated and evasive attacks designed to potentially bypass signature-based and database-reliant security technology. The report also describes the proliferation of affiliation networks based on a “hosted model” for malicious code, which utilize off-the-shelf malicious...
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