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McAfee VirusScan Plus with SiteAdvisor (exe): McAfee VirusScan Plus offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, so you can protect what you value as well as surf, search, and download files online with confidence. McAfee SiteAdvisors Web safety ratings help you avoid unsafe Web sites. This service also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining...; Tags: Viruses and worms, McAfee Inc., McAfee VirusScan, malicious attack, anti-spyware, security, antivirus, firewall, PC, Web, performance, Web site, software; Software downloads 2007-11-02
World Series team: We're under attack! (but by whom?): On Monday at 10:00am, tickets for the World Series went on sale. At 10:15am, the server crashed. The ticketing web site, evenue.net, is still unavailable as I write this, although apparently it was up long enough Tuesday to sell out about 50,000 tickets. Evenue.net...; Tags: Team, Malicious Attack, Attack, Evenue.net, Team Management, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-10-23
Defend the network layer from malicious attack: The network layer is key to the operation of the stack. In this sample chapter from Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master the 8 Layers of an Insecure Network, begin by reviewing the protocols that reside here, such as Internet Protocol (IP), Internet Control...; Tags: Snort, Network, Malicious Attack, Chapter Coverage, Networking; Book chapters 2007-06-22
Protect your Windows system from malicious attack with these three essential steps: As personal computers become ever more powerful, complex, and connected, they also become more vulnerable to malicious attack. This sample chapter from Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out Deluxe, Second Edition examines in detail three essential steps that Windows users can take to secure their computers: using a firewall, getting updates,...; Tags: Chapter, Microsoft Press, Malicious Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Security, Software; Book chapters 2006-07-24
Unified Threat Management: How to Stop Spyware, Spam, Viruses, and Other malicious attacks: As networks become more complex and are expected to do more to support and drive business objectives, a simple firewall is not capable of providing the security one's network needs. This is where Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions can be the right solution. Unified Threat Management is the name for...; Tags: Network, WatchGuard Technologies, Threat Management, Malicious Attack, Virus, Unified Threat Management, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Firewalls, Security, Viruses And Worms, Intrusion Prevention, Networking; White papers 2006-01-01

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Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today: Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...; Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Gallery: Saving your data from nuke attack: Barbed wire, fences, guards, and guard dogs are just the first level of security for an English datacenter that claims to be safe from nuclear, chemical and biological attack. by Andy Smith; Tags: Attack, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Smith, datacenter, data, security; Image galleries 2008-05-13
A U.S military botnet in the works: Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...; Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-13
News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk "IT subversion": An internal Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation states that counterfeit Cisco routers imported from China may cause unexpected failures in American networks. The equipment could also leave secure systems open to attack through hidden backdoors. The scope of the problem is broad and results from a complicated supply chain originating...; Tags: Cisco Router, Router, Network, Information Technology, FBI, Cisco Systems Inc., Hardware, Federal Government, Routers & Switches, Networking, Government, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Call for military to operate botnet: Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...; Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The physics of flocking in 3-D: You might think that bird watchers are only amateurs armed with binoculars. But biologists have also been studying flocks of birds for a long time. And now, they're helped by physicists, according to this New Scientist article about how European researchers are capturing flocks in 3-D. With a couple of...; Tags: 3D, Animal, Physicist, Handbook, Analysis, STARFLAG, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...; Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Powerset's search: Does it deliver?: Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content (Techmeme). This effort...; Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Web, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojan: Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanRe: DDOShttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htmRE: Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanhttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htm; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, distributed denial of service, Spyware fighter, DollarRevenue, fighter, trojan horse, spyware; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Climate Counts tells climate-conscious buyers to avoid Apple: Non-profit environmental group Climate Counts publishes a report that puts Apple at the bottom of its environmental list. Apple scores 11 out of 100, while IBM, which enjoys the top spot on the list, scores 77. Climate Counts goes as...; Tags: Apple Inc., Climate Count, Climate Counts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka": INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has sucessfully created a proof of concept exploiting the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. Taking advantage of the way Gmail forwards messages, the team was able to send 4000 messages in a short period of time from a single account...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Vulnerability, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm: Can the price of crude--currently above $125 a barrel and the high gas prices that go with it--make telecommuting the norm? These questions come up typically with crises and natural disasters. For instance, if there was an avian flu outbreak workers across the U.S. would have to...; Tags: Information Technology, Worker, Telecommuting, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Microsoft shares more IE8 security details: Microsoft shares more IE8 security detailsDEP is a great ideaDEP is a great idea, as it prevents a large number of buffer overflow attacks - which happen to be the most common type of non-email attack, and a reason why we keep having to update all of the time.DEP isn't...; Tags: security, Microsoft Corp., data execution prevention; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Microsoft shares more IE8 security details: When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...; Tags: Security, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, Web Browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-08