Using SurfControl’s Adaptive Threat Intelligence (ATI), SurfControl’s Global Threat Experts have compiled threat trend data for the first quarter of 2006.
In the first quarter of 2006, threat experts found that product and services-related spam has shown consistent growth of 16 percent month over month. The increase is partly attributable to Russian and Chinese coverage, where [...]
SurfControl: Key trends for spam in first quarter 2006
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Cross-Site Scripting Worms and Viruses: The Impending Threat and the Best Defense
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
On October 4, 2005, the "Samy Worm1" became the first major worm to use Cross-Site Scripting2 (“XSS”) for infection propagation. Overnight, the worm altered over one million personal user profiles on MySpace.com, the most popular social networking site in the world. The worm infected the site with JavaScript viral code and made Samy, the hacker, [...]
Web-borne Attacks: Security Audits Expose the Silent Threat to Corporate Networks
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
The growing number of targeted attacks, aimed at stealing the identity of your company’s employees or compromising the confidential information of your enterprise is nearly impossible to detect using traditional security tools. Hackers have become familiar with the workings of traditional security systems and have crafted malicious attacks aimed to outsmart your company’s traditional defense [...]
Voice over IP Security: What Are the Risks and Solutions?
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
To secure VoIP, both IP and VoIP-specific security procedures and best practices must be deployed at potential points of vulnerability, where the service or infrastructure may be susceptible to known or presumed attacks.
Threats to VoIP can be grouped into three primary areas:
* Denial of Service
* Fraud and [...]
Defend against Emerging and Targeted E-mail Attacks
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Regardless of the size of an organization e-mail infrastructures are under nonstop attack, in many ways and from many places. IT professionals know they simply can’t be concerned about handling inbound mail but need to know what sort of inbound attacks or inbound data leakage might be happening within their network. In this IT Briefing, [...]
Three rules for safer WiFi away from home
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Almost everyone has heard about wardriving, the geek sport in which you drive around and see what wireless access points (WAP) you can find and access. Because of the ink wardriving has received over the years, many home and business users have wised up and added security to their WAPs. But how about the busy [...]
Network security lacking, expert says
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
The public is aware of many attacks on the nation’s defense, but attacks they may not know about on information systems are growing even more prevalent. So says the chief systems engineer of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service. The goal of protecting the country’s vital telecommunications and computer systems information is becoming more difficult [...]
Spammer threatens anti-spam group
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
A company that’s promoted an anti-spam "Do Not Intrude Registry" and essentially spammed spammers said Monday that many of its members have received threatening emails from a major junk mailer.
Blue Security, debuted its registry and BlueFrog client last summer. The company’s researchers, who work out of Israel, analyse and vet the spam, trace the message [...]
Researchers Chart Sizable IM Threat Growth
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
New research indicates that hackers are increasingly turning their efforts toward IM-borne attacks, with experts saying that businesses and end users remain largely ignorant to the growing problem.
According to the latest report from anti-malware applications vendor Postini, the sheer volume of instant messaging threats it tracked during April 2006 increased by nearly 25 percent, compared [...]
Apple online store hacked
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Apple’s Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. The attack, carried out by someone working under the name ‘Dinam’, who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday. The defacement was removed from Apple’s website shortly after silicon.com alerted the company.
Apple has subsequently refused to [...]