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- Cloud computing security to grow in 2009
- As I mentioned the other day, I've just completed a report with Osterman Research on the messaging security market. Â What we found will be good news for cloud computing providers. While enterprise users continue to spend a large percentage of their workday involved with messaging activities, the...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Messaging, Messaging Security, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities
- New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...
- Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- 20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack code
- 20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack codeSo what are some of the sites?Somewhere there should be a list full or partial by popularity of the sites that were hit, shouldn't there? It doesn't do a whole lot of good to just read "20,000 sites hit..." without knowing what they are!...
- Tags: SECURITY, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-06-01
- 20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack code
- Hackers have broken into more than 20,000 legitimate Web sites to plant malicious code to be used in drive-by malware attacks. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious JavaScript, obfuscated code that leads to an active...
- Tags: Malware, Attack, Exploit Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Spammers break Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA...again
- The latest version of Microsoft Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken, reports InfoWorld via security company Websense. According to a detailed analysis of the latest hack by Websense, spammers have come up with a new scheme to fool the...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Spammer, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Purewire snaps up online reputation management vendor
- Less than six months after banking a $2 million funding round, Atlanta-based security-as-a-service startup Purewire has made its first acquisition -- online reputation management vendor Opinity. Financial terms were not released. The deal gives Purewire software and intellectual property to add to its Purewire Web Security Service,...
- Tags: Web, Monitor, Channel Management, Monitors & Displays, Blogging, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- News to know: IE 8; TI; VMware; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Convertible Classmate, take 2 Jason Perlow: Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey! ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Cloud Computing, Phone, Texas Instruments Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, E-mail, Wiki, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Cyberoam Provides CIPA Compliance and Security to VCA - US School
- Valley Christian Academy VCA has been educating the children at Aurora, Ohio, USA since 1979. The Chief IT Administrator at VCA and Mr. Dan Lavely from XL Systems were in the process of testing WebSense - a leading Content Filtering solution. They needed a simple solution to their content filtering...
- Tags: Security, Content Filtering, Elitecore Technologies, Cyberoam, Valley Christian Academy, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-12-17
- Google sponsored links spreading (scareware) rogue AV
- Malware hunters at Websense Security Labs have discovered legitimate Google sponsored links being used to plant scareware programs (rogue anti-virus applications) on the computers of Windows users. In a blow-by-blow description of the rogueware attack, Websense researcher Elad Sharf shows how an innocent Google search for the...
- Tags: Google Inc., WinRar, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Bloxx Awarded Top Marks for Anonymous Proxy Blocking
- With 1,100 pupils, The High School of Glasgow caters for children of all ages, from kindergarten up to the age of 18 years. The High School of Glasgow previously used SurfControl's web filtering solution - acquired by Websense in a multi-million dollar deal - to monitor its pupil's and staff's...
- Tags: Web, Bloxx Inc., Channel Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-11-25
- Koobface Facebook worm still spreading
- Originally spreading since July, the Koobface worm remains active according to a recent security alert issued by Websense : "The email reveals that infected user accounts are being used to post messages to Facebook friends lists. The content was an enticing message with a link that used a Facebook...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Malware, Worm, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Lotto Sport Italia Selects Finjan to Secure Its Networks From Crimeware Attacks
- Lotto Sport Italia S.p.A. is a leading Italian sportswear company. Lotto Sport Italia needed to secure all its locations from malicious Web threats entering its networks. Lotto also wanted to minimize the downtime of its networks caused by Crimeware threats - more specifically spyware attacks and Crimeware that exploits operating...
- Tags: Network, Finjan Software Inc., Attack, Lotto Sport Italia S.p.A., Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking
- Case studies 2008-11-03
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Spammer, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoning
- Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoninginteresting!Can I translate this article to korean in my blog? (http://carly1000.blogspot.com/2008/08/websense-reports-china-netcom-dns-cache.html)If you don't want to this, please add a comment on my blog.
- Tags: Blogging, China Netcom DNS cache poisoning, China Netcom, Websense Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoning
- The DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom CNC and are using a malicious...
- Tags: China Netcom, DNS, DNS Server, Internet Service Provider, Websense Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Domain Names, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits
- Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors through a well known vulnerability in Adobe Flash's player. Websense's alert : "Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered...
- Tags: adobe systems inc., cnet networks inc., javascript, blog, websense inc., malware, scripting languages, security, viruses and worms, software/web development, web development, dancho danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Rise of the 'legit' malware sites
- About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense. This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in 'good' sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware...
- Tags: Web, Vulnerability, Websense Inc., Malware, Spam, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Channel Management, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken
- UPDATE: Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers. Jeff Yan and Ahmad Salah El Ahmad, at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, England recently published a research paper entitled "A Low-cost Attack on a Microsoft CAPTCHA", demonstrating how they've managed to attack the Microsoft's CAPTCHA used on...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp., Vladuz, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- South Australian Council Goes Live With Complete Hosted Web and e-Mail Security Solution From Websense
- Previously, the District Council of Grant had implemented the Websense Hosted email security on demand solution which had efficiently halted viruses, malware and spam from entering the council's network. However the council had not yet addressed security and content issues associated with Web browsing such as staff or members of...
- Tags: Web, Council, E-mail Security, Websense Inc., Cyberthreats, Channel Management, E-mail, Security, Marketing, Online Communications
- Case studies 2008-05-01
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