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Where Online Hackers Are Headed in 2007: "Coming Soon" to a Website Near You (and Your Hard Drive)!

Overview With the advent of powerful anti-virus and anti-spam software protecting increasing numbers of computers and networks, hackers are turning their attention to new ways to deliver viruses, crash unsuspecting users' computers, and steal social security numbers, passwords, bank account numbers, etc.

To help keep your organization's name out of the headlines due to security breaches, download this white paper to learn more about the new security risks.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Perimeter eSecurity	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Firewalls, Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Best Practices

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