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The Ongoing Evolution of Online Fraud | 2006-12-16 01:00:21 | Symantec |
| Understanding the current threat landscape is critical in helping to protect enterprise users' online interactions and ensure the availability of critical systems. Increasingly, attackers see end users as the weakest link in the security chain and are constantly targeting them in an effort to profit. As a result, they are now using a variety of techniques to escape detection and prolong their presence on systems in order to gain more time to steal information, hijack the computer for marketing purposes, or compromise confidential information. This paper draws on the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report to show that the new threat landscape is increasingly dominated by attacks and malicious code that are used to commit cybercrime. | |||
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Targeted Attacks: A Special Report | 2006-11-02 07:20:17 | Trend Micro |
| This story of a real-life attack illustrates that it's a lot easier than most people realize for a determined attacker to wreak havoc, especially when the targeted systems aren't fully prepared. | |||
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Spyware: The Latest Trends | 2006-11-01 06:26:19 | Trend Micro |
| This Trend Micro white paper discusses the latest trends in broadband, wireless, and network interconnectivity, and the progress of information exchange. It also highlights an example of emerging spyware that exposes users to the possibility of identity theft, data corruption, and personal profiling. | |||
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IE Zero Day and Web Attacker Kit: A special report | 2006-10-26 11:33:01 | Trend Micro |
| How can a user maintain computer security when bad guys sell anyone attack kits online that exploit the very latest vulnerabilities in Microsoft software? | |||
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Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Banking | 2006-09-26 01:00:16 | IBM |
| Community financial institutions, including retail and commercial banks, savings & loans, and credit unions, along with larger institutions and other commercial enterprises, continue to face increasing information security threats. Compounding these threats is an ever increasing regulatory burden and focus from initiatives like Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, U.S. Patriot Act, PCI, etc. However, IBM is helping community financial institutions proactively defend against and respond to these various threats. | |||
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Don't Dread that Network Audit - Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards | 2006-10-28 11:16:57 | Qualys |
| Digital crime incidents are rising rapidly as criminals become ever more sophisticated and ambitious. Organized crime is now taking an active role in electronic thefts. This leaves businesses with mounting financial losses and the additional cost of keeping perpetrators at bay. Security administrators need to be more proactive about preventing attacks, making vulnerability assessments a crucial tool in their portfolio. Learn more in part two of this four-part Podcast series.
Listen to these other parts: --There's a Hole in Your Network - Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery --How One Organization Conquered the Audit Challenge --On-demand Vulnerability Management |
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Technology: Transforming Our Industry! | 2006-08-09 01:00:11 | Disaster Resource Guide |
| In their youth many people watched, enthralled and captivated, as the crew of the Starship Enterprise caused time, space, and matter to transform instantly. The futuristic consoles where they worked were filled with keyboards that, when pressed, instantly provided information about anything in the galaxy. Who could have imagined that one would push those magic buttons himself or herself, and have instant access to information stored anywhere in the world? Yet, this new and amazing technology is transforming the industry as rapidly as any other. | |||
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Data Breach Notification Laws Highlight the Need for Spyware Detection Capability | 2006-07-31 16:33:45 | Webroot Software |
| Much has been written about the pressing need for today's businesses to comply with the corporate governance provisions that are outlined in laws like HIPAA, SOX, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Unfortunately, data breach notification laws have received far less attention, even though noncompliance with such laws can create dire financial consequences for your business. Download this informative white paper from Webroot Software to learn more about the growing body of data breach notification laws that are being passed in state legislatures throughout the U.S., the consequences of their reporting requirements, and how a dedicated anti-spyware solution can help you avoid reportable breaches all together. | |||
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Anti-Spam Effectiveness: Is Your Current Solution Up to Par? | 2006-09-22 01:00:14 | Proofpoint |
| Although the war on spam continues to intensify, many companies are losing the battle. As spamming tactics become more aggressive, many enterprises find themselves drowning - once again - in a rising flood of spam.
Spammers have grown in sophistication and use a wide variety of new techniques - such as highly variable language, quickly rotating URLs and obfuscated images - to thwart anti-spam filters. 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. Is your current anti-spam solution up to the task? Are your users receiving more spam in their inboxes? Are you, or your IT department, spending more and more time trying to stem the flow of spam? In this web seminar replay, Proofpoint product expert Rami Habal will discuss some of the newest techniques used by spammers, the latest email-borne threats, and what you can do to provide "zero-hour" protection against all these threats. View this webinar, "Anti-Spam Effectiveness: Is Your Current Solution Up to Par?" and learn about:
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What Works in Intrusion Prevention: "Eliminating Virus Outbreaks With Sara Lee" | 2006-06-16 01:00:27 | SANS Institute |
| The days of do-it-yourself security using free software have passed. There is broad understanding among CIOs and CISOs that an effective cyber security program cannot be implemented without commercial technology and services. SANS What Works initiative employs SANS research to illuminate a user story that brings to life the benefits (and problems) of an effective security tool. |