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What makes for great security? Is it about keeping the bad guys out or letting the good guys in? About defending attacks or preventing them? When IDG Research Services queried...
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Need help eliminating risk in your IT environment? This ForwardView webshow describes how security appliances, which incorporate an array of security functions, can help you ward off security breaches without...
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Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...
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Organised ubiquity is a must for organisations to sucessfully "project" their users in any given landspace, at any given time, with secuirty policy. This White Paper covers issues surrounding secure...
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This white paper reviews the content security threat landscape and how it has evolved into a more dangerous and high risk environment. The paper discussed how conventional content security approaches...
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When companies talk about securing their enterprise, they tend to focus on external attacks, forgetting about the damage that insiders can cause. This chapter from Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise...
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This sample chapter, taken from Network Security Principles and Practices (CCIE Professional Development), discusses recommendations on how to secure a LAN environment.
In order to provide comprehensive security on a network,...
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This hack from Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites shows you how to use JavaScript to set up Microsoft's and the Mozilla-based browsers' different request objects.
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This sample chapter, taken from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Security, Spam, Spyware & Viruses, discusses common computer security products on the market.
This sample chapter, taken from Absolute Beginner's Guide to...
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This sample chapter, taken from Web Security Field Guide, will help you justify the need to implement security tools in your organization.
This sample chapter, taken from Web Security Field Guide,...
The worm has spread rapidly despite its reliance on an attachment that must be downloaded and launched by a user. Sobig is a mass-mailing worm incorporating its own SMTP engine, according to antivirus companies.
According to the company's initial analysis, Lovgate is a mass-mailing worm that incorporates an SMTP engine and a backdoor component. The file attachment is written in Microsoft Visual C/C++ and is compressed using ASPack and is 78,848 bytes in...
While a relative newcomer to the scene - Sober-C was only found in the wild on 21 December last year - a previous variant of the Sober worm made first place last month. December's statistics from antivirus company Sophos showed the most reported...
The latest Sober worm, which operates in a similar fashion to others of its kind, uses various email subject headers to try to entice people into opening its attachment. A variant of the Sober virus was discovered on Monday that attempts to fool...
The return of Sober (variant N) has seen it rocket to the top of the current threat list, heading the chart of most prolific viruses during the past month. Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, said: "Sober-N stormed to the top of the...
Last month, a variant of the Sober worm was spread as an attachment that claimed to be an old class photo sent by a schoolmate. There are at least three new variants of the Sober worm spreading across the internet via email messages.