by Wayne Huang, Fyodor Yarochkin, NightCola Lin, Chris Hsiao of Armorize. Screenshot 1 The beginning of this year saw mass Web hosting compromises across numerous hosting providers; thousands of websites were compromised via vulnerabilities in shared hosting providers and as a result, were serving malware. We thought eventually everything would be cleaned up and [...]
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Comparing Email Management Systems that Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware & Phishing Attacks
Email is absolutely critical to the health and efficiency of business-critical applications. Proper management and protection from the growing array of threats that impact it is an increasingly vital initiative. Systems designed to protect email systems and users from spam, viruses, malware and other threats must be extremely effective. They must operate with virtually no [...]
Tek-Tips of the Week
Top Stories Battle for Open Source’s future got a well deserved nod from our industry’s leader in software integrity, Coverity: "Open source developers are actively improving software. In 2009, the number of Rung 1 certified projects increased 32 percent from 2008 and doubled on Rung 2 in the same time period. OpenPAM, Ruby, Samba and [...]
On 9/11 Cyber Attacks Have Become Almost Mundane
The news, search, social networks — on 9/11 where can you go online that is not under attack? Here’s a recap of just a few of the latest exploits. And this is just smidgen of what is happening. Attacks have become so frequent that they have become almost mundane, as boring as any other reporting of [...]
The Top 10 Malware Sites As Indexed By Google
Google has found more than 4,000 malware sites with more than 1,700 originating from China. Of those, Google created a top 10 list that counts the number of compromised web sites that reference it. According to the Google Online Security blog, “All domains on the top-10 list are suspected to have compromised more than 10,000 [...]
Twitter Users Victims of Two-Phase Attack: Screencast
It looks like Twitter users were hit by a two-phase attack over the past week, fueling expert claims that Twitter is in criminals sights as a ripe place to execute “for-profit,” attacks. Phase 1: >>Last week, about 13,000 Twitter users get fooled into giving up their user names and passwords. At first it appears to [...]
Kaspersky Labs Discovers Malware On Brand New Netbook
Kaspersky Labs is recommending that brand new netbooks be scanned for viruses before being connected to the Internet after discovering malware on a just out of the box machine loaded with Windows XP software. The discovery came after Kaspersky developers noticed something wrong with a new Netbook it had purchased. It was not running quite [...]
Blue Coat’s Real-Time Phishing Detection: White Board Demo
Mikko Valimaki is chief scientist at Blue Coat. At the RSA Conference last week, he gave us a “white board” demonstration of Blue Coat’s real-time phishing detection and showed how the “cloud,” plays in making the service possible. He also provides a startling example of how online fraudsters are proving their creativity. In his words, [...]
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May 2012 Patch Tuesday Overview
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Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) Scam Alerts 4/20/2012
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Leadership Mistakes of the Galatic Empire
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Google Brings Intelligence with Knowledge Graph
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VoIP 101: Phone Systems Buyers & Comparison Guides
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Cassandra Essentials Tutorials: What is DataStax Enterprise
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SEO – is it really THAT important?
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Which Top 8 Telephony Vendors Save You Money
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Some Basics of Cloud Computing in 10 Minutes
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Free Whitepaper on Cloud-Based Endpoint Security
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YouTube Comments Loaded With Malware Links
The Panda Labs blog details how malware is spreading on YouTube comments through the use of “Malspam,” that leads users to malware sites where users are duped into paying for bogus software. The trap is becoming increasingly common on social sites. According to Panda Labs, Rogue Antivirus, is one of the most prolific malware in [...]