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whitepaper The Botnet Threat: Targeting Your Business2008-07-07
  The objective of a robot network or "botnet" is simple: Enlist your computers into the armies of zombies that will, on command from some faraway place, bombard other computers with fraudulent spam and malware, turning those computers into zombies as well. In this whitepaper, you will learn more about the remarkable and serious threat posed by botnets. Understand their development from "Sobig" to "MayDay," and see how their creators continually upgrade them to evade traditional security defenses. Finally, understand how MessageLabs proprietary technology known as Skeptic provides a unique solution to protect your business.

Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper IronPort Web Security Helps Protect a Global Solutions Provider2008-07-01 Cisco Systems
  Based in India, with offices in the United States, Iteamic has ambitious growth plans. To ensure its progress, Iteamic realized it needed a solution to minimize the many risks associated with unrestricted access to the Internet - including a growing range of malware, phishing attacks and inappropriate material. Iteamic sought a solution that would provide comprehensive, single source Web security with easy manageability and monitoring. IronPort provided Iteamic with an easy-to-manage, single source security solution to provide a clear view into the most challenging threats without sacrificing speed and efficiency. Driven by IronPort's powerful AsyncOS operating system, the IronPort S-Series ensures maximum throughput.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Securing Virtual Worlds Against Real Attacks: The Challenges of Online Game Development2008-07-01 McAfee
  Most of the attacks that have been witnessed in real life will surface in virtual worlds unless the environment is built with security in mind. It needs to leverage knowledge and work together - security vendors and gaming vendors - to avoid falling into the same trap again. It is possible to make most attacks in virtual life impossible or uneconomical. There are no good reasons why virtual characters should suffer from the same troubles - spam, phishing, adware, spyware, Trojans, viruses, worms, and other malware - that currently plague real day-to-day lives.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers2008-06-16 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)is a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a means of identifying objects and carrying small amounts of data. With this increasing use, RFID security is also becoming an increasingly important issue. In this paper, the author looks at a non-convenient security issue; that of RFID malware, in particular RFID viruses. This malicious code can be spread through RFID tags, and deliver a payload to the soft-ware backend of the architecture. Next to the general principle, the author will also explain defensive measures against viruses, and examine the feasability of such attacks.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Mobile and Wireless		   
whitepaper Spyware: A Clear and Present Danger2008-06-11 Webroot Software
  Used to be, a virus would tear through computer systems worldwide and within days, trash hundreds of thousands of systems, garnering global headlines before an antidote was created and distributed with similar alacrity. Now, silent and potentially far more deadly code is in play, which if it's working right, will never be noticed, even as it siphons off critical information or quietly turns a computer into a bot or spamming node. The new malware is spyware, but it's not the mere annoyance that first appeared on the scene a decade ago and later became notorious as a system-slowing nuisance. In the past several years, spyware has morphed from an irritant into a powerful tool for serious cybercriminals.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper McAfee Total Protection Service Lets Growing Finance Company Keep IT Security Simple2008-06-05 McAfee
  Founded in 2007, Gemino Healthcare Finance is a specialty healthcare lender focused solely on providing financing to healthcare service providers throughout the U.S. With only one IT person supporting the entire company, their managing information security must be as simple and easy as possible. Gemino deployed McAfee Total Protection Service which protects their network from viruses, spyware, and other malware attacks. McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise, part of Total Protection Service, also protects users from visiting unsafe web sites.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Web 2.0 - The New Generation of Web Threats2008-06-01 ScanSafe
  Unfortunately, malicious software (malware) has also evolved. Just as technology has been replaced by users as the driving force behind websites, the computer is no longer the ultimate target of the malware. The user is the target. Today, malware possesses a single objective: to gain access to the user's private, financial, and confidential information. To gain that access, malware authors exploit the very thing that makes Web 2.0 so successful- the user's trust. This paper addresses the complex implications and interactions of Web 2.0, the malware that exploits it, and the challenges this poses to traditional security solutions.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration		   
whitepaper SWF and the Malware Tragedy: Detecting Malicious Adobe Flash Files2008-05-22 SektionEins
  Security of Adobe Flash based Rich Internet Applications (RIA) has become a subject for many concerns over the last year. Numerous tools for decompiling, disassembling and analysis are available, although most of them are not intended be used for security-related analysis. The recent attacks supplying malicious banner ads through high profile web sites are an example how easy it is to reach a large number of targets with relatively primitive techniques such as redirects from within a Flash banner. This paper is focused on the detection of malicious SWF files.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Traffic Aggregation for Malware Detection2008-05-21 Carnegie Mellon University
  Stealthy malware, such as botnets and spyware, are hard to detect because their activities are subtle and do not disrupt the network, in contrast to DoS attacks and aggressive worms. Stealthy malware, however, does communicate to exfiltrate data to the attacker, to receive the attacker's commands, or to carry out those commands. Since malware rarely infiltrates only a single host in a large enterprise, these communications should emerge from multiple hosts within coarse temporal proximity to one another. This paper describes a system called TAMD (pronounced "Tamed") with which an enterprise can identify candidate groups of infected computers within its network. TAMD accomplishes this by finding new communication "Aggregates" involving multiple internal hosts, i.e., communication flows that share common characteristics.

Tags: Security Administration, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper EMS Email Security: Spam and virus-free email without the need for constant IT administration2008-05-14 Dell MessageOne
  While most email filtering solutions have barely evolved over the last few years, Dell MessageOne has broken the mold with a completely new generation of email filtering technology that is more effective, easier for administrators and users to manage, and able to scale to meet the need of the largest global enterprises.

EMS Email Security leverages machine learning techniques to provide a revolutionary spam detection system that inspects every message for hundreds of thousands of threat attributes gleaned from billions of messages. Self-adjusting detection algorithms are then applied to identify even the newest spam attacks without manual tuning or administrator intervention. Unlike other services, EMS Email Security is fully integrated with Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory to eliminate manual administration. Real-time directory synchronization is leveraged to fully automate user management and to automatically add company employees and personal contacts to safe lists. These valid addresses are always let in while invalid addresses are blocked before they reach your servers.

Download this guide for more information on EMS Email Security and learn how to protect your organization with the best-in-class solution against spam, viruses, and unwanted content!

Tags: Security Administration, Security Administration, Internet and Web, Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering