You’re doomed, says cheery security vendor. The latest research report from McAfee has painted a frightening picture for enterprise IT administrators, predicting a rapid maturation of cyber-crime and the technological being used to carry out attacks. n no particular order, McAfee Avert Labs’ top ten security threats for 2007 are:...

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) concludes that cyber criminals are increasingly becoming more professional – even commercial – in the development, distribution and use of malicious code and services. While cybercrime continues to be driven by financial gain, cyber criminals are now utilizing more professional attack methods, tools and strategies to ...

Signature-based detection: Signature-based engines are extremely effective at identifying and blocking known threats. Multiple signature-based engines form an important part of a multi-layered cocktail approach to real time scanning. However, signature-based malware detection only works for known malware. It is not useful for new threats. Additionally, in order to be ...

Counter to what the movies might say, hacking grades is not just cheating it’s a crime: An investigation showed the professor’s network account had been accessed without her permission and grades were assigned to nearly 300 students, prosecutor Robert Fratianne said. I bet they just guessed her password but still, there’s ...

In China, UTM (Unified Threats Management) has been rocketing in recent months, not only in the media, but also in the real market transactions. International vendors, such as Fortinet, Watchguard, Sonicwall, ZyXel, bomb the newspapers, journals and ...

BlackWorm Summary Published: 2006-01-26, Last Updated: 2006-01-27 02:01:42 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 3(click to highlight changes)) About BlackWorm Over the last week, “Blackworm” infected about 300,000 systems based on analysis of logs from the counter web site used by the worm to track ...