According to Richard Parkinson, UK MD of security specialist Network Associates (NAI), the security community has known about this type of vulnerability for over a year. As long as there's technology out there being developed and changed it's...
In particular the buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) software - exploited by both Nimda and Code Red - became infamous, from the server room right up to the boardroom.
When small and medium-sized firms are added into the equation, 68 per cent overall had a malicious incident in the past year. Two-thirds of large firms and half of all those surveyed suffered a virus infection last year, compared to 41 per cent in...
Perry said the threat of a "zombie or slave machine" being created by this backdoor vulnerability, in line with a number of other attacks in recent months which have enable denial of service attacks and the sending of spam, encouraged the company...
Financial services firms are facing more internal security breaches than external hacking and virus attacks, according to consultancy firm Deloitte. Although finance companies have seen fewer external attacks, internal breaches more than doubled...
Almost 40 per cent of Trojan attacks and 30 per cent of hacker scans were focused on banks and financial firms, according to a report from security companies Counterpane and MessageLabs. Financial companies suffered more Trojan horse attacks last...