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A good place for senior executives to start in trying to understand their companies' financial exposure to cyberthreats is by getting an overall assessment — not just from IT, but also from business units and corporate operations such as the human...
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Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated. One password stealer, called Taterf, alone...
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US-CERT has received reports of new phishing activity, some of which has been linked to Storm Worm. The latest activity is centered around messages related to the recent earthquake in China and the upcoming Olympic Games. This Trojan is spread via an...
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A variant of the Zlob virus has emerged that can tweak DNS entries on standard commercial routers from an infected Windows PC. It uses a built-in list of standard router usernames and passwords. Successful attacks have already been observed on Linksys...
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Many small- and medium-sized organizations use antivirus software, and yet new viruses, worms, and other forms of malicious software (malware) continue to infect large numbers of computers in these Organizations. Malware proliferates at alarming speed...
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Excerpt: The spread of wide-scale Internet surveillance has spurred interest in anonymity systems that protect users’ privacy by restricting unauthorized access to their identity. This requirement can be considered as a flow control policy in the well...
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Excerpt: This report, developed in collaboration with experts, aims to inform policy makers about malware impacts, growth and evolution, and countermeasures to combat malware. It seeks to analyze some of the main issues associated with malware and to...
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Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. Microsoft is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious Software...
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Actualmente las empresas están preocupadas por su información ya que de acuerdo a las estadísticas, actualmente circulan de manera diaria por el Internet cerca de 900 millones de virus, de los cuales el 85% es vía correo electrónico...
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The glitzy, interactive abilities of Web 2.0 have led to a profusion of new applications, but the technology also is bringing a new era of security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "Security was a challenge to begin with,...
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Beating the "botnets"–armies of infected computers used to attack websites–requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. A team at the University of Washington, US, wants to marshal swarms of good computers...
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Quantum cryptography, a new technology until now considered 100 per cent secure against attacks on sensitive data traffic, has a flaw after all, Swedish researchers say. "In computer terms, we've found a bug," said Jan-Aake Larsson, an associate...
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Microsoft Corp. today took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel. "They realized they were in our gun sights...
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A beta release of Windows Live OneCare 2.5, Microsoft's automated security suite for home users and small businesses, is available for testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site. Microsoft stated through its blog that there is little apparent difference...
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Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference...
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The USA's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Last week, the IC3 released its annual report for 2007. You can download a copy from here . From F-Secure: Malicious software...
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A new botnet twice the size of Storm has ballooned to an army of over 400,000 bots, including machines in the Fortune 500, according to botnet researchers at Damballa. The so-called Kraken botnet has been spotted in at least 50 Fortune 500 companies and...
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PGP Corp. has introduced an encryption application that lets enterprise users protect all the data they carry around in their smartphones. PGP Mobile encrypts Windows Mobile-based data automatically, but still allows mobile data to be shared securely...
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At the Black Hat Security Conference currently taking place in Amsterdam, researchers from the Zurich ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) have reported a new model for determining the security of operating systems. They don't just count the number...
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The start-up's rootkit detection technology will be added into Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare and Forefront security products. http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9899808-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Urs...( read more ) Share this...
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In addition to my previous blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/ms_schweiz_security_blog/archive/2008/03/29/black-hat-who-patches-security-holes-faster-microsoft-or-apple.aspx From IBM Internet Security Systems: http://blogs.iss.net/archive/AppleCrumble...
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Security researchers are cooking up tactics for beating phishing fraudsters at their own game. Phishers perennially set up fraudulent sites on servers they have compromised. But due to the sheer volume of sites that need to be set up to perform a successful...
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At a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher demonstrated a new technique to more easily identify phishing and other malicious Websites. Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research for Websense, showed...
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears...
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"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users...
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