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Featured White Paper: Creating an AUP: Common myths & mistakes

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is the bedrock of any organisation’s management of employee IT use. However, many organisations underestimate the importance of tailoring the AUP to their specific needs or place their business at risk by using outdated or inadequate policies. Click Here

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  • Google hack may have affected more companies

    The hackers then use a variety of techniques to acquire additional usernames and passwords and fan out across the targeted company's network, downloading sensitive data, which is then moved offshore.This type of targeted attack is not new, but it…
    28 February 2010
    Tags: Victim • Targeted • Hackers • Hacked • Hack • Compromised

  • Microsoft kills Waledac spam botnet

    The court has apparently ordered Verisign to remove the botnet's command-and-control domains from the Internet.This action has quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the '.com' or domain registry level, severing the connection…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Send • Operation • Judge • Federal • Domains • Command

  • Microsoft: Windows XP blue screen of death crash caused by malware

    If that still does not work, you may need to reload your computer.Because TDSS uses crafty techniques to hide itself on the operating system, many antivirus programs have a hard time detecting it, said Roel Schouwenberg, a Kaspersky antivirus…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Xp • Robert Mcmillan • Remove • Investigating • Hard Drive • Boot

  • Leading voice encryption programs hacked in minutes

    The author of this software, Ruben Unteregger, later went public on his work, even going as far as to publish the source code in an attempt to stop his software being used for eavesdropping again.Like most security breaches, Notrax went for the…
    27 January 2010
    Tags: Trojan • Programs • Record • Confirmed • John Dunn • Researcher

  • Vint Cerf calls for cloud computing standards

    The Obama Administration, for its part, has expressed a desire to use cloud-based computing techniques to make government more efficient and for inter-agency communication, he said.Commenting on other topics, Cerf predicted a growing role for…
    11 January 2010
    Tags: Protocols • Optical • San Francisco • Appearance • Ondemand

  • Researchers take aim at iPhone, BlackBerry security

    The researchers are developing remote repair techniques that would enable carriers to clean up devices with little or no involvement by the end user. Such methods might require temporarily disabling some of the phones functionality, such as the…
    12 November 2009
    Tags: Wireless Networks • Techniques • Researchers • Boost • Operating Systems • Tech

Latest Features

  • Hackers capture Hollywood imaginations

    In the film Ustinov plays a criminal who uses social engineering techniques to impersonate a computer programmer and steal money, using a variety of fake identities.Gordon nearly included Desk Set, a 1957 Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn movie…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: War • Skills • Science • Robert • Games • Criminal

  • 10 ways to hack into networks

    The sad fact is that at some point some bad guys will try to hack into your network, here are 10 of the techniques they could use - useful to stay ahead of the crims. The potential for this type of eavesdropping has been known for decades, and many…
    28 July 2009
    Tags: Technique • Cell • Enforcement • Hack • Techniques • Pick

  • Ransomware - frightening but thankfully rare

    If we take this variant as an example [Gpcode.ak], it's not trivial to implement such encryption techniques and it's certainly a lot easier to go for the low-hanging fruit' of more straightforward phishing attacks for example, comments Kaspersky's…
    16 June 2008
    Tags: Rsa • Small Business • Faced • Restore • Anti Virus • Writers

  • Networking's next revolution

    It would take quite a while to roll over the equipment to support these new techniques," Trott says. Network coding techniques also provide the ability to detect malicious "pollution" attacks in peer-to-peer interactions and correct them, she says.
    04 January 2008
    Tags: Stations • Infrastructures • Node • Evidence • Nodes • Destination

  • IPv6 migration tactics

    Dynamic tunnelling techniques simplify maintenance compared with statically configured tunnels, but static tunnels make traffic information available for each endpoint, providing extra security against injected traffic.There are, in fact, concerns…
    19 September 2007
    Tags: Technique • Edge • Migration • Techniques • Configured • Destination

  • Black Hat hackers party on security woe

    Barbour went on to describe in detail techniques for Live System Anti-Forensics, Windows hook injection mechanisms, Library Injections and more that he assured his listeners could take evasive malware to a new level.
    06 August 2007
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Viruses • Windows Mobile • Writers • Dos • Presentation
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    Clever social engineering techniques in their phishing e-mails get consumers to sign up. The malware used to initially gain access to accounts is often so well written that the connection comes from an authorised and authenticated computer—a…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • How to avoid joining a botnet

    As much as CSOs try to get folks to bone up on safe practices (both online and in the office), there are always going to be some who need reminding.Online, the biggest battle these days is against botnets: networks of infected computers which…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: House • Steve • Patching • Compromised • Banks • Attachment

  • How to DoS a federal wiretap

    These techniques would work on mobile phones or VoIP systems, but not on analog devices, Sherr said. Because the researchers weren't able to test their techniques on real-world systems they don't know for certain that they could thwart a wiretap.
    17 November 2009
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Law • Sms • University • Records • Tap

  • How to assess laptop encryption products

    That's trivial with full disc encryption but not so easy with partial encryption techniques, which depend on user education for safe operation.A key challenge for IT in deploying encryption on its laptops is the sheer number of encryption options…
    20 January 2009
    Tags: Enterprise Class • Third Party • Folder • Motherboard • Disc • Contents

  • Understanding malware attack techniques

    Understanding malware attack techniques Erik Larkin The top PC threats explained. If the term is being used to describe attacks against a software flaw, make sure that you have installed the application's latest patches.Remote code execution: This…
    08 September 2008
    Tags: Proof • Concept • Fix • Denial • Dangerous • Eyes

  • Case Study: BlueBag finds Bluetooth flaws

    The software, called Car Whisperer, took advantage of poor security programming techniques on the part of the car manufacturers. The researchers hid a Bluetooth-sniffing computer in a suitcase that was rolled through train stations, a shopping…
    22 June 2006
    Tags: Bluetooth • Enabled • Spread • Attackers • Targeted • Car

Reviews

  • Databases for social networks

    The open source nature of the code means you can revise and extend it even if you buy a commercial licence.The NoSQL field is attracting a great deal of interest, and the techniques used with Cassandra can easily be applied to any of the other…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Table • Questions • Queries • Nodes • Movie • Friends

  • BitDefender Total Security 2008

    It offers slightly reduced levels of protection, which is better than none - a common and very useful approach for gamers.BitDefender Total Security 2008 uses a range of techniques to keep the bane of the internet, spam, under control.
    01 November 2009
    Tags: Scans • Spyware • Modules • Alerts • Labs • Learning

  • Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus review

    It then launches a quick system scan that took under ten minutes on my system.Security Essentials uses a new feature called the Dynamic Signature Service, which employs a variety of techniques to check for malware even before that malware's…
    30 September 2009
    Tags: Signatures • Signature • Scans • Downloads • Behaviour • Actions

  • Microsoft Security Essentials review

    It then launches a quick system scan that took under ten minutes on my system.Security Essentials uses a new feature called the Dynamic Signature Service, which employs a variety of techniques to check for malware even before that malware's…
    25 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Antivirus • Scan • Signatures • Downloads • Actions

  • Panda Internet Security 2009 review

    This community-based approach to security isn't new - Sunbelt's IHateSpam relies on its members to identify spam emails to quickly build a herd immunity' to threats.As well as this new layer of security, Panda Internet Security 2009 still has a…
    16 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Spyware • Folders • Scanning • Filter • Outlook

  • A networking Swiss Army knife

    If you are a little braver, you can opt for "minimal" testing that uses non-aggressive techniques, such as connecting to one or two ports to determine the existence of services or attempting to "fingerprint" the host's operating system.The next…
    17 February 2006
    Tags: Cache • Domain • Analysis • Kit • Style • Ip Address

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