The data is spread everywhere. That is much more of an information-based threat, it is a far more sophisticated attack and because they can exploit data for profit it's worth their while. The other issue is on the topic of insider attack, in an...
The US election was a popular subject as was an apparent 'bling bling' subculture which fuelled a massive explosion in emails selling counterfeit Rolex watches. Over the course of the year human behaviour became an ever more important 'infection...
Day said: "Now it's more about manual infection or self infection and pretty slow spread rates. It seems incredible to think companies could fail to protect themselves against some of the biggest threats on their network, yet in such a complex...
This most recent Trojan horse differs from the attack software used in last week's website compromises but could be paired with that technique to spread spyware. An attack that had used a vulnerability to turn some websites into points of digital...
From there, the infection can spread to millions in an hour or two. Because you can only protect what you know exists and uncontrolled machines quickly become easy targets for attack. They are then able to launch the attack hitting all of the...
Although there are several worms that exploit the Windows plug-and-play flaw, the spread remains limited, Cole said. The security issue exploited by the worm also affects the newer Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but only PCs running Windows...