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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 761 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: avar in seoul comments Discuss  
This year's gathering of the Association of Anti Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR 2007) was held in Seoul at the end of November, from the 28th to the 30th. Approximately 220 researchers from around the world attended the conference. The hot topics at the conference included security in online games; botnet tracking and mitigation; packers; and generic and heuristic detection. Vincent Weafer from Symantec gave an impressive keynote speech, and Eugene Kaspersky from Kaspersky Lab highlighted the rise of cybercr read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 760 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: second half of in review comments Discuss  
As another year comes to close, let's look back at the lessons we have learned and extrapolate what we can expect to see this year. As the philosopher George Santayana would say, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ThreatSeeker Technology Q3-Q4 2007 Results* 51% of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised, rather than sites specifically commissioned by hackers18% of malicious Web sites were created using a toolkit87% of email messages are sp read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 760 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: google services increasingly used in spam runs comments Discuss  
Welcome to SPAM 2.0.Websense Security Labs has been constantly monitoring the recent spammer tactics that use Google services for spamming purposes. Through the last two months we have seen increases in these services being utilized, the collected data is from our Threatseeker detection capabilities within a combination of our On Demand Services  (ODS) service and our web classification.In these spammer tactics, which first started during Christmas last year, Google Page Creator and Blogger services a read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 760 days ago
Via: http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com | Tags: second half of in review comments Discuss  
As another year comes to close, let's look back at the lessons we have learned and extrapolate what we can expect to see this year. As the philosopher George Santayana would say, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ThreatSeeker Technology Q3-Q4 2007 Results* 51% of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised, rather than sites specifically commissioned by hackers18% of malicious Web sites were created using a toolkit87% of email messages are sp read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 760 days ago
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This year's gathering of the Association of Anti Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR 2007) was held in Seoul at the end of November, from the 28th to the 30th. Approximately 220 researchers from around the world attended the conference. The hot topics at the conference included security in online games; botnet tracking and mitigation; packers; and generic and heuristic detection. Vincent Weafer from Symantec gave an impressive keynote speech, and Eugene Kaspersky from Kaspersky Lab highlighted the rise of cybercr read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 588 days ago
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It's no longer possible to stay secure on the Web using best practices; eWEEK Labs' Andrew Garcia tests a variety of Web security technology solutions and finds that most come up short. - Security companies have been getting more creative with offerings designed to shore up the Web browser, introducing a variety of solutions for the consumer market aimed at helping Web surfers make more intelligent and informed decisions about the sites they visit and the code they download. The s... read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 579 days ago
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On the opening day of BlackHat 2008, Symantec commissioned an anonymous survey among the attendees to learn about contemporary views on security related topics, such as vulnerability research, future threats and trends, and what types of challenges we as security professionals will collectively face in the coming year. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 484 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:02:01 -0600 (CST)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stmBBC News10 November 2008Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.The analysis suggests that such a tiny response rate means a big spam operation can turn over millions of pounds in profit eve read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 419 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: drupal internationalization in translation module security bypass comments Discuss  
A vulnerability has been reported in the Internationalization (i18n) Translation module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.http://secunia.com/Advisories/33549/NOTE: This RSS feed does not include information about updated Secunia advisories. You should note that Secunia on average issues more than 20 updated advisories per day, containing information about exploit and patch availability, new and in depth research, and all other details that are rel read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 390 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: in obama era routing change too comments Discuss  
If you're looking for the really serious security issues to address, ones that might need government help, securing BGP should be on the short list. - If you were in charge of the nation's cyber-security what would youfocus on? One really scary problem that doesn't get enough attention isthe insecurities in BGP, the router protocol of the Internet. BGP hasbeen getting some attention as of late from Homeland Security, but it'sstill way down... read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 370 days ago
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Security experts provide perspective on the insider threat and strategies for mitigating it, including automation, acceptable-use policies, traffic inspection, security training and auditing. The goal: to make it easy for users to do the right thing and difficult or impossible to do the wrong thing. - ... read more »
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