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NewsHow to know if you've been breached
A recent survey found that more than 40 percent of organizations are unsure how often they are the target of advanced network attacks, and 50 percent take a month or more to detect these attacks. To Read more...
SOUND OFF: What keeps CIOs awake at night?
The ZeuS botnet (a.k.a. Zbot) remains on the loose, stealing usernames and passwords to break into bank accounts. The Stuxnet worm is haunting industrial control systems around the globe--rumored to Read more...
Cloud security service focuses on malware
The use of cloud services is growing and along with this growth has come both concerns about security and new ways to protect data. Webroot Software Inc., an Internet security company that provides Read more...
DDoS attacks get cheaper
Cybercrime may pay, but providing the tools for the criminals to operate in this netherworld have become so flooded with entrants that the prices for renting malicious software have dropped. Read more...
Twitter attack brings home new reality
Whether you're a big business or a small one, chances are you have embraced social networking such as Twitter and Facebook as a new way to connect with your customers and generate business. So, when Read more...
Botnet mastermind sentenced to four years
The mastermind of a botnet scheme has become the first person to be sentenced to four years in prison, for a crime involving stealing data under federal wiretap statutes. John Schiefer, a 27-year-old Read more...
Security software has gaps
Security systems certainly have improved over time, but it is estimated that only about 40 percent of the anti-virus software programs actually can detect binaries during the period of greatest Read more...
Dutch botnet masters arrested
Two brothers suspected of assembling a botnet of between 40,000 and 100,000 zombies have been arrested by the Dutch police. The younger brother was only a 16 years old, while the older brother is 19. Read more...
Watch out for Valentine's Day spam
The potential for email spam on Valentine's Day is so great that even the FBI is getting involved. "With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious Read more...
Is your VoIP network secure?
Got VoIP security? Well if you don't, this may be the year that you see the first serious attacks on your VoIP networks. It may also be the year that the forthcoming presidential election and Olympic Read more...
| Press ReleasesDamballa Senior Threat Researchers Present at Hacker Halted 2011ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, announced that Senior Threat Researchers Sean Bodmer and Christopher Elisan are speaking at Hacker Read more >> VSS Monitoring Partners with Netronome to Improve Network Monitoring Visibility and EfficiencyPartnership Removes Blind Spots from Network Monitoring ApplicationsSAN MATEO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VSS Monitoring, the world leader in Network Intelligence Read more >> New Damballa Labs Threat Report Analyzes Internet Crime Trends for First Half of 2011Damballa Unveils the Industry’s First Research on the Growth of Mobile Malware Criminal Command-and-Control Activity; Also Discloses List of the Most Abused Top Level Domains and Top 10 Botnets in Read more >> Imperva Research Details New Search Engine Hack InnovationHackers Bypass Google Security to Execute 80,000 Daily Queries For Cyber ReconnaissanceREDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data Read more >> Protect Your Computer Against Summer ThreatsVASCO aXsGUARD Survey indicates botnets, Trojan horses and worms as the main menaces on the world wide web; VASCO advises prudent internet hygieneOAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. and ZURICH, July 5, 2011 Read more >> |
