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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Bill C-28 and your inbox OPINION Will Ottawa's freshly passed antispam legislation have an impact? Or will it simply be a burden to business?
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
E-mail attacks on businesses rose in 2010: Symantec One of the most potentially damaging threats to corporations shows no signs of relenting, according to Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence 2010 security report. The indirect method hackers use to get at your intellectual property
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Tracking tornadoes, botnets and the solar system High-performance systems are striving for exascale computing -- a thousand-fold increase from the current petascale capacity -- but can we even use all that data? The future of exascale computing
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Canada well below global malware infection rate: Report Volume 8 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv8) shows Canada at a malware infection rate of 2.5 compared to the global average of 7.0. An Info-Tech Research analyst explains why cybercriminals mimic legitimate enterprise processes
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Conficker a year later is a ‘loaded gun’ There are still 6.5 million PCs infected with Conficker/Downadup a year after the worm hit. The botnet has never been used and it’s just a matter of time before someone decides to pull the trigger
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules The U.S. FBI and Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency have submitted a set of recommended rules for Internet registrars to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The move stems not only from trademark disputes and cybersquatting but also concern over phishing and botnets.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Attackers going after end users rather than servers The Web traffic study also finds issues with botnets, corporate policies, Adobe Systems Inc.’s Acrobat reader and JavaScript. ZScaler found significant use of Internet Explorer 6, which unlike later versions of Microsoft Corp.’s browser does not maintain malicious URL and phishing block lists. Just what exactly is a darknet?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
ISPs could cut spam easily, says expert A Trend Micro security executive explains two techniques ISPs should be implementing to reduce spam and botnets. Find out what they are
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Network security threats to watch in 2010 Good patching procedures and outbound firewall rules will go far in protecting your organization from botnets, but hackers are now targeting Adobe Acrobat, the Symbian mobile operating system and other software. How to protect yourself from the threats of 2010
Thursday, July 09, 2009
DDOS attacks against South Korean Web sites continue A massive volume of online traffic disables major Websites in South Korea for the third day in a row...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Online attack hits US government Web sites The powerful attack has knocked the FTC's Web site offline and caused many outages in South Korea...
Monday, April 20, 2009
Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly At the RSA Security conference, Botnet expert Joe Stewart says teams of security researchers, setup like police units, should be established to infiltrate and disrupt cybercriminal groups.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
FBI: Several nations eyeing U.S. cyber targets The chief of the FBI's Cyber Division says cyber threats have grown in sophistication in the past year.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Top cyber-crook targets for 2008 A look at five online security predictions for 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Security experts warn: Don’t get bitten by bots Vendors like Fortinet and CA are predicting bots be one of the biggest security threats in 2008. Meanwhile, Info-Tech has some tips on detecting illicit instant messaging traffic
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Web 2.0 brings barbarians inside the firewall The founder and CEO Mi5 Networks gives a guided tour of the emerging security threats behind Internet-based applications, and what enterprise technology executives should do to deal with them
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack A spree of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks against Web sites in Estonia appears to be subsiding, as the government calls for greater response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the European Union.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Botnets turning into spyware The security industry has had a hard time defining spyware, much less eliminating it. But according to many, there’s one type of spyware that’s among the most dangerous: the botnet.
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