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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. In fact, after five years of dealing with spam and throwing significant resources at the problem, 54% of messaging decision-makers in mid-sized and large organizations still view spam as a serious or very serious problem according to a recent Osterman Research survey.  sponsored by
whitepaper PDF Spam: Spam Evolves, PDF becomes the Latest Threat2007-08-20 MessageLabs
  PDF spam, which accounts for 20% of all spam, is a relatively new phenomenon. Yet, it undergoes the same constant evolution as all other online threats. In this white paper, see the various ways that PDFs are manipulated to avoid detection, such as randomizing images, changing document sizes and files lengths, text "poison," partial file corruption, and more. See how various office applications and other tools are deployed to create new PDF spam. Finally, understand the risks to your business from PDF spam, and learn why a MessageLabs Anti-Spam solution avoids the pitfalls of traditional security solutions to stop PDF spam.

Tags: Email, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper Key Trends Shaping the Future of Email: Proactive Steps to Defend Your Email Network2007-11-01 Sendmail
  Email and other messaging technologies are evolving fast--and bringing new threats. Now, learn how you can head them off. This timely whitepaper reports on the shrinking "signal-to-noise" ratio in messaging.

Viruses, hacker attacks, harmful spam, and other threats continue to outpace legitimate email--affecting even text messaging, instant messaging, and Voice over IP (VoIP).

Learn how these new threats can overcome existing countermeasures, how your organization could be affected, and how a policy-driven solution can help. Your network's security is at stake--download this vital whitepaper now.

Tags: Best Practices, Network Security, Email, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing		   
whitepaper Towards More Effective Virus Detectors2007-10-20 Arizona State University
  Viruses (or malware) are a scourge, with potentially unlimited fraudulent uses. Smart viruses can hide, mutate and disable detection methods. Computers are an important part of everyday life to many people across the world. The Internet has revolutionized everyday life. The Internet has also brought an ugly side of computers: a plethora of malware. Home computers are most vulnerable to attacks by malicious programs and hackers. This is because many home users are less equipped to prevent or counter an infection. Even if the user possesses the required skills, a smart virus that appropriately hooks onto the system can hide its presence on the machine, and remain undetected.

Tags: Security Tools		   
whitepaper MessageLabs Intelligence: October 2007--"MP3 Stock Spam Is Up...More Spammers Sent Down"2007-11-01 MessageLabs
  Top line results of this report include:
  • Spam - 74.5% in October (an increase of 1% since September)
  • Viruses - One in 161.5 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 1.4% since September)
  • Phishing - One in 174.0 emails comprised a phishing attack (a decrease of 0.6% since September)
October was a busy month for spam, especially as the volume of spam from new and unknown bad sources has risen by a further 1%. Over recent months, stock spammers have been toying with different types of file attachments, including text, images, ZIP, RAR and PDF spam, the most notable spam type which consisted of an Adobe Acrobat PDF document containing the spam message. The PDF spam messages have largely died out now, as it is unlikely that the spammers were reaping significant gains in hyping penny stocks.

Tags: Security Management, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Best Practices, Spyware		   
whitepaper Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business2007-10-01 MessageLabs
  A close look at MessageLabs own data - derived from processing 1.5 billion emails a week - provides a clear picture of how spammers vary their tactics to overwhelm traditional corporate email defenses. See how changes in spam duration, frequency and intensity among others reveal the spammers' attempts to probe for weaknesses. Understand how "spikes" can overwhelm mail servers and render some defenses useless. By illustrating in detail the spammers' tactics, this whitepaper will help you better understand the threats to your business, and see how MessageLabs provides a unique solution that avoids the pitfalls of traditional hardware- and software-based defenses.

Tags: Security Management, Email, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Best Practices		   
whitepaper Leveraging Hosted Security in a Web 2.0 World2007-09-01 St. Bernard Software
  This paper takes a hard look at security in today's Web 2.0 world and discusses how the best defense against attackers is a "defense in depth" strategy. Defending your systems in layers helps ensure that, in the event of circumvention or failure of one defense, others will continue to help thwart the attack. Your network doesn't have to be an expensive and complex minefield to be reasonably secure. But careful steps must be taken. Some effective security controls considered in this paper include malware scanning, content filtering, and user education. This paper also examines the opportunity to outsource some of your security functions, which can be a boon for any organization that wants to obtain cost effective solutions that have enterprise-level features and performance. Ultimately, security is about deploying the right security solution for your environment. Download this important white paper and learn how you can effectively defend your organization in the most cost-effective and secure way.

Tags: Firewalls, Security Management, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Spyware		   
whitepaper Patching: Is It Always With the Best Intentions?2007-09-01 McAfee
  Over the years malicious software has attempted every trick in the book when it comes to hooking into an operating system not only to remain persistent at the time of execution but also beyond system reboots. This paper will describe how hooking into the operating system has changed over the years, including some examples of the most 'Interesting' methods from MS DOS, early Windows versions and present-day contemporary methods.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper Why Antivirus Solutions Do Not Protect From Spyware2007-08-31 Webroot Software
  Today's information environment is unlike any in the past. Businesses of all sizes rely heavily on both the Internet and technology systems as primary communication tools. While businesses have a growing dependence on the Internet for awareness, competitive advantage and ecommerce, this dependence comes with both rewards and risks. The advantages are the ability to communicate with and reach customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, while the risks include the vulnerabilities of exposing IT infrastructure to a surge of evolving threats. Successfully balancing the technology and the threats can make or break the business.

Tags: Network Security, Spyware		   
whitepaper Enhancing Desktop and Laptop Security Performance with Disk Defragmentation2007-09-18 Diskeeper
  Security is vital, and so is the performance of that security technology. Faster detection of new threats means faster elimination. Using real-world scenarios, this study presents the impact of fragmentation on the performance of security scans from the most popular anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions on the market today. Read this paper from Diskeeper Corporation to find out just how much faster you can realize full security on your systems.

Tags: Security Management, Hard Drives, 		  
whitepaper Interactive Wormhole Detection in Large Scale Wireless Networks2007-08-01 University of Kansas
  Wormhole attacks in wireless networks can severely deteriorate the network performance and compromise the security through spoiling the routing protocols and weakening the security enhancements. This paper develops an approach, Interactive Visualization of Wormholes (IVoW), to monitor and detect such attacks in large scale wireless networks in real time. The paper characterizes the topology features of a network under wormhole attacks through the node position changes and visualizes the information at dynamically adjusted scales. It integrates an automatic detection algorithm with appropriate user interactions to handle complicated scenarios that include a large number of moving nodes and multiple wormhole attackers.

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