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  • 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

  • Anti-virus no defence against botnets, says vendor

    This runs 36 anti-virus programs - a representative sample of the security programs used by businesses and individuals - giving researchers access to data on get statistics on how many malware binaries have already been uploaded to the site by…
    27 November 2008
    Tags: Detection • Spread • Appliances • Blocking • Detect • Spot

  • Anti-virus software too inconsistent

    To address the sheer volume of malware and diversity of its behaviour, we provide a method for automatically categorising these profiles of malware into groups that reflect similar classes of behaviours and demonstrate how behaviour-based…
    08 June 2007
    Tags: Malware • Behaviour • Worms • Anti Virus • Researchers

  • Nanoscale researchers bid for hard drive replacement glory

    Instead of detecting magnetic changes magnetically, X-ray microscopy was used to look at the domain walls, areas as small as 15 nanometres in length, and almost visually detect the atom's orientation.Because there is, on the one hand, a nanoscale…
    17 May 2007
    Tags: Hard Drive • Chris Mellor • Hard Drives • Concept • Solid State • Oriented

  • Spammers use new technique to evade filters

    Every six months or so we see a new attack that is very successful, he said.As anti-spam systems adapted to popular techniques such as image spam, criminals were having to look further to engineer spam stealthiness.The easiest means of detecting…
    02 May 2007
    Tags: Technique • Provider • Password • Filtering • Encrypted • Attachment

  • RFID vendor gags researcher over card flaws

    Both cover methods of detecting RFID signals between a transponder embedded in a device and an "interrogator," according to a source familiar with HID's claims.Pennell and others doubted that such broad patent claims could be used to stifle free…
    28 February 2007
    Tags: Rfid • Presentation • Researcher • Speech • Talk • Intent

Latest Features

  • Is Cisco trying to choke Google?

    The extracted identifier may comprise not only a URL, but also any other suitable type of identifier, that is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).Various techniques for detecting requests and for extracting URLs from requests are known in the art…
    13 January 2010
    Tags: Queries • Cited • Disclosed • Requested • Carried • Additionally

  • Keeping your network on its best behaviour

    Network behaviour analysis is an increasingly popular tool for detecting unknown or hard-to-spot threats and anomalous traffic. Whether it's because of increased regulatory demands, the emergence of more-targeted attacks or the latest stealth…
    22 October 2007
    Tags: Firewalls • Events • Administrators • Spot • Agents • Hosts

  • The summer of spam

    PDF spam, the latest trick, is leading the charge and destined to become this year's version of image spam that fooled filters and clogged inboxes for a good part of 2006.As the spam barrage continues and spammers come up with one new trick after…
    17 August 2007
    Tags: Mcafee • Levels • Spammers • Stock • Techniques • Updated

  • Black Hat hackers party on security woe

    But we are here to say H.323 and IAX are just as bad.In case anyone doubts their revelations about how weak authentication and authorisation design in H.323 and IAX can let attackers compromise VOIP systems and launch denial-of-service (DoS…
    06 August 2007
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Viruses • Windows Mobile • Writers • Dos • Presentation

  • Why didn't more anti-virus programs spot Sony's rootkit?

    Maybe we should have been doing that.Security companies like McAfee are moving away from signature-based threat prevention, where security software is told how to spot and disable certain known types of malware, to "behavior" based techniques…
    06 December 2005
    Tags: Mcafee • Spyware • Windows Vista • Techniques • Spot • Trusted

  • Dealing with the IT extortionists

    Lastly, in order to maintain the security status quo we need to collectively manage our environment, detecting and eradicating potential ills. Developing secure techniques at code creation time and educating students within universities in these…
    15 November 2005
    Tags: Status • Techniques • Strategies • Health • Creation • Argued
 

How-Tos

  • Defend against and block spyware

    Only a few, such as Spybot Search Destroy try going beyond that to watch for unusual behaviour that might indicate the presence of new and unrecognised spyware - and even then they are rarely centrally managed, and a non-technical user may not…
    14 April 2005
    Tags: Viruses • Spyware • Antivirus • Keys • Detection • Method

Reviews

  • Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus review

    Its results of 52 percent and 43.8 percent, respectively, were second only to those of the top-ranked Avira Antivir Personal, our overall winner.Microsoft Security Essentials put up no false positives (flagging of benign software), and it got a…
    30 September 2009
    Tags: Signatures • Signature • Scans • Downloads • Behaviour • Actions

  • Panda Internet Security 2009 review

    You can opt to manage' this but ticking the box didn't seem to have much effect here.Panda Internet Security 2009's malware detecting capabilities remain good - according to the authoritative independent testing body, AV-Test.org, it bests the…
    16 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Spyware • Folders • Scanning • Filter • Outlook

  • RLX Control Tower 6G

    With the newest release, 6G, it gains new capabilities for detecting problems with an RLX server system and for using policies to automatically remediate those problems.Although Control Tower 6G is a worthy upgrade, the software remains narrower…
    12 November 2004
    Tags: Chain • Task • Cluster • Administration • Workload • Fails

White Papers

  • Sun Management Center

    Periodic health checks, scheduled and run in the background, help to maintain on-going availability by proactively detecting latent faults, allowing hardware to be fixed before it causes an unplanned outage.
    15 March 2007
    Tags: Downtime • Availability • System Administrators • Suite • Faults

  • Preventing, Detecting, and Repairing Data Corruption

    If not prevented or repaired, data corruptions can bring down the database and even result in loss of key business data.Oracle provides sophisticated techniques for detecting most block corruptions and recovering from them.
    28 February 2007
    Tags: Databases • Recovery • Techniques • Prevention • Block • Corruption

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