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whitepaper Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam26/03/08 Symantec
  Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses Symantec’s approach to solving the problem of image spam, botnets and other threats.  sponsored by
whitepaper What Is Phishing, and How to Avoid These Kinds of Attacks on Companies2006-04-27 08:25:37
  Identity theft, i.e. the theft of someone's credentials to access financial facilities and information, has become the most popular crime in the United States. One of the fastest growing methods of identity theft is phishing, a form of electronic fraud which consists in fooling the victim into providing confidential information either of a financial or personal nature. The most common mechanism used by criminals to achieve their objectives is spoofing an email to make customers think that it comes from a reputable source.   
whitepaper Zombies: The Digital Undead2006-01-31 14:13:53
  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. These zombies strike fear into the hearts of IT personnel responsible for maintenance of corporate networks, and particularly those charged with protecting and ensuring the availability of vital corporate e-mail systems. Today's hackers (the "zombie masters") have become so sophisticated that they have begun creating coordinated networks of zombie computers that can launch a full-scale attack at a moment's notice. Like the living dead, armies of "zombie" computers are disrupting corporate networks and sucking the life out of business-critical systems around the world.

Some basic tenets of security should be followed at all times, whether you want to protect your enterprise network from spam, viruses and DDoS attacks spewed forth by zombie networks, or protect your home computer from joining the ranks of the undead. Download CipherTrust's free white paper, "Zombies: The Digital Undead" to learn how we've zeroed in on zombies, and your organization could reap the benefits. 		  
whitepaper Symantec Australia/New Zealand Submission to DCITA Spyware Discussion Paper2006-04-13 03:50:48
  Adware/Spyware related security risks comprise nearly 20% of submissions made to Symantec Security Response research labs. Nine of the top ten reported spyware programs were bundled with other software. A recent AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online Safety Study in the USA found that 80 percent of scanned computers actually had some form of spyware or adware present and Earthlink reports that a scan of 3 million computers systems over nine months found 83 million instances of spyware. Spyware/adware also needs to be seen in the larger context of overall cyber-security crime (including phishing, spam, virus, etc) and security threats, as these are increasingly inter-related. For example, spyware can be delivered through spam.   
whitepaper Real-World Strategies for Overcoming Spam and Phishing Attacks2006-06-13 01:00:28 Secure Computing
  The constant barrage of spam and the steady increase in the number of Phishing attempts is a vexing problem for corporations. Despite recent legislation and increased penalties for sending spam, attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and threaten the viability of email for organizations without an effective solution. This paper presents an overview of the threats posed by spam and Phishing, discusses why traditional technologies fail, and focuses on the requirements for an effective solution.   
whitepaper The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets2006-06-09 01:00:26 University of Michigan
  Global Internet threats are undergoing a profound transformation from attacks designed solely to disable infrastructure to those that also target people and organizations. Behind these new attacks is a large pool of compromised hosts sitting in homes, schools, businesses, and governments around the world. These systems are infected with a bot that communicates with a bot controller and other bots to form what is commonly referred to as a zombie army or botnet. Botnets are a very real and quickly evolving problem that is still not well understood or studied. This paper outlines the origins and structure of bots and botnets and use data from the operator community, the Internet Motion Sensor project, and a honeypot experiment to illustrate the botnet problem.   
whitepaper Are Your Secrets Safe? Ensuring Outbound E-mail Security2007-05-16 08:17:19 Proofpoint
  E-mail has revolutionized how businesses communicate. But e-mail also makes it easy to send confidential information and valuable intellectual property outside your organization — without anyone knowing until it's too late.

This report from Ziff Davis and Proofpoint discusses the risks posed by outbound e-mail as a conduit for "leakage" of proprietary and confidential information. It also describes the steps organizations can take to develop e-mail security policies and then help enforce and monitor them with technology.

Read this report to learn:
  • Why you should be concerned about intellectual property and confidential information leakage via e-mail.
  • The regulatory, financial, and legal risks associated with outbound e-mail.
  • A step-by-step process for designing e-mail security policies that can help reduce your risks.
  • The top 10 questions to ask when developing e-mail security policies.
   
whitepaper The Symantec Mail Security 8160 Appliance: A Technical White Paper on Antispam Defenses at the TCP/IP2005-09-29 03:00:02 Symantec
  Unsolicited bulk email (spam) is now a major concern of IT managers. Having defended users' PCs against email-borne viruses, managers now have to protect user mailboxes from being swamped under a barrage of, at best unwanted, and often offensive (pornographic) or fraudulent (phishing), email messages. The Symantec Mail Security 8160 appliance implements a comprehensive set of antispam defenses at the TCP/IP level. Their objective is to significantly reduce the transfer capacity available to spammers, while continuing to maintain it for legitimate sources of email.   
whitepaper Fighting Spam in an ISP Environment: Challenges, Solutions and Best Practices2006-06-08 01:00:27 Roaring Penguin Software
  An ISP presents one of the most complex environments for managing spam due to the volume of e-mail, wide variety of users and high level of service demanded by customers. This white paper reviews the most common approaches to spam management in an ISP environment and details how a suitable solution must address particular challenges for ISP administrators. The paper provides comprehensive best-practices for spam management in an ISP environment, including guidelines for evaluation, roll out and deployment of an anti-spam solution. Roaring Penguin has developed these best practices through extensive work with ISPs in resolving their spam challenges, and has developed the CanIt-PRO anti-spam solution in conjunction with ISPs across North America.   
whitepaper "Phishing in the Middle of the Stream" - Today's Threats to Online Banking2006-12-16 01:00:21 Symantec
  Malicious applications that steal financial account information have increased dramatically over the last year, potentially resulting in a direct loss of hard currency to affected victims. While the primary target continues to be online financial systems, the methods used to gather the sensitive information vary. Attacks spread from simply spamming e-mails with links to fake web sites, which is also known as phishing, to Trojans that monitor attempts to log on to online account web services and then begin recording the pressed key strokes, take screen shots, or even redirect the whole network traffic to a malicious site. This paper discusses the methods that are used by online banking malware and shows some of the defense techniques that have evolved to obviate their attacks.   
whitepaper SMS Spam and Fraud Prevention2005-10-06 03:00:01 Cisco Systems
  Short Message Service (SMS) messages account for approximately 10 percent of a mobile operator's revenue, according to research firm IDC. The growing volume of spam can threaten this revenue by provoking subscribers to churn. Furthermore, some of that spam is sent from fraudulent addresses, causing inaccurate billing for subscribers and revenue forfeiture for the mobile operator, which cannot bill the sender for the termination fee. To prevent subscriber churn and protect revenues, mobile operators need a flexible solution for identifying and dropping unwanted SMS messages. The Cisco SMS Spam and Fraud prevention solution improves subscriber satisfaction, helps prevent fraudulent billing, and protects the mobile service provider's signaling network from flooding.