Microsoft Anti-Virus - Extortion, Expedience or the Extinction of the AV Industry?
White Papers Off late Microsoft released MSDOS 6.0, which included Microsoft Anti-Virus, a re-branded and ill-conceived entry into the anti-virus industry. It was obvious that Microsoft would become a player in the anti-virus industry at some level.
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Identification of Repeated Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Denial of Service attacks have become a formidable weapon of extortion, vandalism and ideological attacks, causing damages estimated in the millions of dollars to commercial, government and personal sites.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Major Online Stock Broker Turns to Verizon Business to Help Stop a Potentially Devastating DDoS Attack
White Papers And, as a major online stock broker found out, the threat of a DDoS attack can be the perfect tool for extortion. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are often the weapon of choice for would-be criminals who target Internet sites.
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Papers The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
E-CRIME & WEB THREATS
White Papers Their target is information - confidential corporate or personal data - that can be sold for profit or used for fraud or extortion. Businesses are now facing a new type of information security threat whose characteristics are less widespread in...
[April 25, 2006, 1:00]
Mob Rule
Downloads In Mob Rule there are a wide range of fun things to do, including shootings, extortion, exploitation, controlling, breweries, and brothels, attacking and stealing from rival mob headquarters, and causing general mayhem.
[September 24, 1999, 2:33]
