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whitepaper Securing and Managing the Endpoints: The Case for Convergence2008-09-01 Symantec
  Best practices of IT organizations require you to efficiently secure all your endpoints and gain confidence that corporate assets and business operations are protected—all while controlling costs. After all, the most secure endpoint is a well-managed endpoint. This Aberdeen Group whitepaper identifies specific strategies to mitigate risk, manage complexity, control costs, and improve IT process operations and automation with tremendous efficiency and cost savings.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration, Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper F-Secure DeepGuard 2.02008-09-01 F-Secure
  Today's Internet threat landscape is dominated by criminals. A few years ago, they were only just beginning to adopt the use of malicious software (malware). Since then, it has seen extraordinary growth in "Crimeware" and other malware for profit. Criminal computer networks have rapidly developed and are entrenched upon the Internet. The enemy now possesses advanced expertise and controls massive numbers of infected computers. The threat faced by consumers is growing and it is ever more complex and sinister. It says about F-Secure, has utilized multiple scanning engines in its products since 1998, when F-Secure CounterSign was introduced. CounterSign technology enabled multiple scanning engines to work side-by-side without the issues that usually arise when running two or more different antivirus products.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Unraveling Web Malware2008-09-01 FireEye
  Security researchers and IT administrators have recently witnessed a rapid rise in the use of Web-based blended threats-for example, dangerous (and potentially obfuscated) JavaScript and ActiveX code-to exploit client browsers and operating systems. The rise coincides with the increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies that allow for user-contributed content, syndicated content, iframes, third-party widgets (or applets), and advertising into which malicious software ("Malware") can be injected. These exploits can lead to infection by bots, which run on local computers and can be controlled remotely. In a paper presented at USENIX 2007, Provoset al determined that approximately 9% of all suspicious web sites launched drive-by downloads of malware binaries.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Revealing Packed Malware2008-09-01 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  The past few years have witnessed a significant increase in malware threats to computer users, threats that also pose a serious risk to the Internet's integrity. Malware exploits software vulnerabilities to compromise computers and help attackers steal users' private data. To evade malicious content detection, malware authors use packers, binary tools that instigate code obfuscation. By using executable packers, modern malware can completely bypass personal firewalls and AntiVirus (AV) scanners. Thus, security researchers are facing a great challenge in overcoming malware's complexity. Security researchers and AV products must be able to unpack and inspect the payloads hidden within the packed programs using Reverse Engineering (RE) tools.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Texas' Largest Undergraduate Institution Finds e-Mail Security With Webroot SaaS2008-09-01 Webroot Software
  With seven colleges that have served more than 1.5 million students since 1965, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) is the largest undergraduate institution in the state of Texas. The DCCCD needed a more effective, more manageable e-mail security solution to cut down on spam, which would not only increase productivity and security, but also free up significant bandwidth and storage space on the network. The DCCCD was a long-time user of Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition, a desktop security solution that protects against the threats of spyware. Based on the successful performance of that product, the DCCCD decided to evaluate Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS (Software as a Service). This managed e-mail security solution delivers multi-layered protection when combined with Webroot's desktop security solution.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware2008-09-01 Sunbelt Software
  Managing and protecting against endpoint security threats is becoming increasingly difficult for most organizations regardless of their size. Malware of all types are becoming more virulent, their authors are becoming more adept at getting around current defenses, and the profits generated by malware are funding new and more dangerous threats.

This free white paper examines why older, traditional antivirus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your network against the new wave of malware. Learn the strategies and solutions that will keep your company's assets secure.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  This paper presents SpySaver - a novel anti-spyware approach that reduces the incentive to deploy spyware. The approach does not prevent spyware installations, nor does it recover from them. Instead, SpySaver decreases the value of the information spyware collects by creating counterfeit information. Goal is to generate enough counterfeit information to devalue the information gathered by spyware to the point that eliminates the incentive to collect it in the first place. This paper, presents approach and an initial design of a tool that produces realistic counterfeit information about the browsing patterns of Web users.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper State University Decreases Call Escalation by 80% Using Appliance-Based Remote Desktop Support Solution2008-08-20 Bomgar
  Texas State University's IT team deals with support issues ranging from Microsoft Word issues to viruses and spyware. Up until the end of 2005, helpdesk technicians had to walk end-users through troubleshooting processes over the phone due the size of the campus and dispersion of faculty, staff, and students. This was incredibly time-intensive, even when the required fix was simple. When problems could not be fixed over the phone, techs had to travel on-site, taking several hours out of the work day. In January of 2006, after conducting a thorough evaluation of various remote support solutions, Texas State purchased the Bomgar Box remote desktop support appliance.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Client System Hardware		   
whitepaper ScanSafe Case Study: Halcrow2008-08-15 ScanSafe
  Halcrow specializes in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide. With interests in transportation, water, maritime and property, the company is undertaking commissions in over 70 countries from a network of more than 70 offices. To protect its network from the growing number of increasingly sophisticated Web threats, Halcrow needed a solution that provided real-time protection from the malware and unwanted content, could be easily and rapidly deployed, and would eliminate the burden of Web security from IT staff. Halcrow conducted a fairly extensive research exercise and looked all around the industry until it came to ScanSafe, which is providing Halcrow with both Web Malware Scanning and Web Filtering.

Tags: Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper GetCodec Multimedia Trojan Analysis2008-08-01 HISPASEC SYSTEMS
  A new trojan was spotted spreading in the wild, infecting multi-media files on end-user PCs with malicious content. The interesting detail about the malware is that its code embedding functionality is based on the ASF (Advanced Systems Format) format. ASF is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework. The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Intrusion - Tampering