By levelling a denial-of-service attack at such servers, an attacker can block customers of the assaulted ISP from connecting to websites. A new worm that attacks Linux web servers has compromised more than 3,500 machines over the weekend, creating...
Security best practice that applies to networks will also apply to converged networks, and companies will have to protect them against external attack in much the same way. Traffic on virtual private networks (VPNs) is commonly encrypted for...
In early 2003, it acquired Okena, a small maker of intrusion prevention software for desktops, in a deal valued at $154m. We've been highlighting prevention in several recent announcements. Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a...
But AOL said it would not be contacting consumers, as it put more emphasis on prevention of infection through email filtering and blocking links to certain websites. Jonathan Lambeth, director of communications for AOL UK, said: "We have on...
Additional tools that will help networks in case of any attack are intrusion detection and prevention systems, which scan for rogue incoming packets, and straightforward antivirus software which can help prevent any known threats from disrupting...
Gartner advises organisations to configure content management and data loss prevention tools to monitor and block the release of sensitive content over HTTP and peer-to-peer network traffic and also configure the web gateway to block any services...
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