The study found that an average of almost 5,000 DoS attacks are taking place each week, but warned the figure is probably even greater as most companies will conceal such an attack, not wanting outsiders to know they have been hit.
They will also perhaps find time to do some work and then take their laptop to the office and plug straight into the network, sharing any malware they've picked up along the way. And that's not the only threat.
It could be easily used for spreading viruses or other malware," Pynnonen said in the email. The vulnerability can be used to attack systems running on Windows or Linux, for example, and using major browser software such as Microsoft's Internet...
Secure Computing, a provider of security services, said in a media alert on Tuesday: "A malicious person could potentially use this back channel to move around inside of an organisation unabated and remove confidential information undetected, or...
So it's not unreasonable to suspect that that's going to be the next attack vector, particularly as we depend more and more on mobile devices. He explained: "As SDKs became more available for PCs people wrote malware, viruses, worms and...
Andreassen said: "As security products add multiple layers of defence, cybercriminals are matching this with a multi-component offence approach. He said: "Most modern malware involves a series of attack stages, relying on and using a number of parts.
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