Windows networks are vulnerable to attacks from malicious code, end users with greater-than-necessary privilege levels and unregulated software installation. Microsoft’s native privilege management requires an all-or-nothing approach when it comes to granting privileges to users. That inflexibility, coupled with the fact that some mission critical applications require administrative privileges to run, leaves many enterprises at [...]
Dealing with Malware Proactively and Preemptively
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Creating a Dual Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop
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Notebook computers are generally preloaded with Windows XP, but for those of us who do considerable work in the Linux environment, a Windows-only notebook is far from ideal. I worked with Unix on Windows packages such as Uwin and Cygwin for several years, but I finally decided I wanted a full Linux installation on my [...]
Hardening Windows Desktops: Protecting Users from Themselves
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While the ultimate goal of good network security implementation should be to educate users about threats, sometimes it is best to take some of their power away in order to decrease security exposures to the enterprise. This SearchWindowsSecurity.com checklist, by expert Jonathan Hassell, examines over 80 Windows XP features, describes their function and provides a [...]
IBM Technology Intrudes on Hacker Attacks
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IBM announced new intrusion detection capabilities to help detect, prevent, and analyze hacker attacks. The new tool, nicknamed “Billy Goat,” provides early detection of work attacks and, according to IBM, greatly reduces the false alarm rate. In essence, the tool portrays itself as a collection of servers on the network. Servers on the network do [...]
11 attacks made on public organizations’ websites in 2006, rights activists
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Rights organizations are concerned about an increasing number of hacker attacks on public organizations and parties’ Internet resources.
"Eleven Internet sites have been attacked by hackers this year, including the sites of Jewish organizations, and of regional branches of the Union of Right Forces and communist youth organizations," Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy director of the Sova information-Analytical [...]
Unauthorised Applications Are Biggest Concern To IT Managers
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According to a poll by AppSense, most IT managers accept the limitations of existing security systems for want of a better way. 79% of IT managers admitted they live in fear of unknown IT threats (zero-day attacks) with no real proactive way to defend against them.
Despite the fact that IT professionals are clearly concerned about [...]
Strengthen Data Protection with Network Access Controls
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In today’s business information enterprise, a strong perimeter defense is not enough. Network access requirements for remote, wireless, and physically connected unmanaged systems result in solutions that bypass perimeter controls. New methods of preventing unauthorized access and malware infections are required.
As we’ll examine in this paper, the first step in meeting the challenges associated with [...]
Cryptanalysis of Bluetooth Encryption
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Encryption is the most important part in computer security mechanisms and protocols: he who can bypass cryptographic protection, gains total control over the security. Password management, secure network transmission protocol, wireless protocol (Wep, WPA, Bluetooth, GSM), integrity checking (e.g. in antivirus software), data protection, login authentication are well-known examples whose security heavily relies on cryptographic [...]
Reverse sandbox helps IE users surf safe
May 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Wintutis, a Victoria based startup is about to launch an addon for Internet Explorer that can not only stop the browser from being hijacked by spyware, it can protect users from keyloggers that have already infected the computer.
One of the biggest issues facing users of Windows is spyware infestation, which can make it risky using [...]
Trojans are the New Model Army
May 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Amateur virus writers are going the way of amateur athletes, morris dancing and the May Pole, according to a survey by Panda Software. Seventy per cent of malware detected by the developer’s scanning service in the first quarter had a cybercrime or financial motive.
Forty per cent of malware detected was spyware, the firm said, with [...]