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The next Sober virus attack: CNET Senior Editor Robert Vamosi explains how and when the Sober virus is expected to strike again and what you can do to protect yourself against this mass-mailing worm.; Tags: Virus Attack, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Sober virus; Whiteboards 2005-12-14
Closing the zero-day window - Defending against virus attacks before the updates arrive: Viruses, worms and trojans are the bane of modern business. Every day, new breeds of malicious code are introduced onto the Internet where they propagate with alarming speed. Eventually, each new virus is identified and anti-virus software all over the world is updated to defend against it....; Tags: Clearswift Corp., Virus Attack, Antivirus, Window, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security; White papers 2005-10-14
New Solution Offers Protection from Serious Virus Attacks: Computer viruses can quickly wreak havoc in government agencies that rely on automated and Web-based systems. After all, the whole problem with emergent viruses is the fact that they do the bulk of their damage before a signature update becomes available. Fortunately, HP is working on an experimental solution that...; Tags: Virus Attack, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security; White papers 2005-03-01
OS X flaw may leave Macs open to virus attacks: OS X flaw may leave Macs open to virus attacksSo long asthe user is NOT logged in as root, damage will be minimal at best. If they are logged in as root, well shame on them! Overall if it's a standard user account, then the overall system will be...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Spyware, Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, virus attack, virus, Apple Macintosh, MP3, trojan horse, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, resource fork; Discussion threads 2004-04-09
Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dear: Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearblahits their own fault for using windows.One train, just switch to Linuxand all will be well. Then the virus writers can go back to . . . back to . . well, they can go.2000/05/28:Microsoft Applications Security And The InternetSee "Microsoft...; Tags: Cyberthreats, ROI/TCO, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus attack, Next IT, virus, TCO; Discussion threads 2004-03-19

U.S. creates cyberalert system: U.S. creates cyberalert systemKeep the gov out of itJust what I need the goverment informing my endusers about the latest virus threat. Then they forward it on to their friends telling them to forward on to their friends. Then I put in a filter to trap the fear inducing emails.If...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, e-mail, gonna, virus attack; Discussion threads 2004-01-28
Maintaining Productivity Through Network Virus Attacks: A Proactive Strategy: This webcast explains a proactive strategy of maintaining productivity through network virus attacks.; Tags: Strategy, Virus Attack, Network, Trend Micro Inc., Viruses And Worms, Security; Webcasts
Patch Management Web Seminar: Virus attacks are occurring with increasing frequency, disrupting thousands of IT networks, costing companies billions of dollars. Every unprotected enterprise is at risk, making automated patch management a must-have tool in your IT arsenal. Many of the world's largest companies use Marimba's patch solutions to avoid costly system outages caused...; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Virus Attack, Marimba, Patch Management, Virus, Patches, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, It Management, Security, It service Management; Webcasts
3Com, TippingPoint Free Palm Beach Atlantic University From Crippling Virus Attacks: Millions of malicious self-replicating packets flooded the campus network. Internet access and e-mail ground to a halt due to all the unwanted traffic. The congestion prevented most students and faculty from retrieving their applications and data. This grim scenario, the nightmare of network administrators worldwide, is precisely what the IT...; Tags: Virus Attack, Palm Inc., 3Com Corp., Virus, TippingPoint Technologies, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security; Case studies
Eliminating Virus Attacks and Saving One Technician a Year With Symantec Software and Acer Outsourcing Services: The expansion of city services to Internet channels, along with the increase in malicious code attacks, made information security a top priority for the government of Taiwan's Taipei County. However, the county's legacy antivirus solution from Trend Micro was failing to counter some threats and didn't fit into the county's...; Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Virus Attack, County, Outsourcing, Acer Inc., Virus, Security, Viruses And Worms; Case studies

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Internet abuse and Cloud Computing: A recent uproar in the right wing blogosphere about the shutdown of anti-Obama sites on blogger.com has some serious implications for those considering cloud computing. What seems to have happened there was a simple, if pernicious, denial of service attack carried out for political reasons - but there's not much...; Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-05
Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea: Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...; Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?: Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?AVG Freeware Ain't So Free After All...Man, am I shocked that AVG is doing this. Of course I don't use the product but have made recommendations in the past to folks who could not afford to purchase good...; Tags: Scanners, Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Badware, server log, AVG, AVG LinkScanner; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?: The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...; Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-03
On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IE: On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IEAm I correct that uninstalling Safari mitigates the problem?I realize it isn't a fix but am I correct in believing that for the time being, removing Safari effectively closes off the only known attack vector that can utilize this vulnerability?...; Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, patch management, flaw, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!: Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...; Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!: If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...; Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...; Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail; Discussion threads 2008-07-03
NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 Filters: NoScript plugin writer Giorgio Maone posted a commentary on IE 8's new filters, drawing comparisons to his own widely popular NoScript Firefox plugin. Maone writes: I'm happy to learn that IE8 is going to implement a less ambitious version of a feature which NoScript users have enjoyed for more than one...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Attack, Maone, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers: Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...; Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-03