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Cisco Reputation Filtering: Providing New Levels of Network Security

Cisco Reputation Filtering: Providing New Levels of Network Security

Today's sophisticated, blended threats can exploit three or four different communications vehicles before they launch... Read more

10 September, 2010
Learn Why Proofpoint is the Email Security Solution of Choice

Learn Why Proofpoint is the Email Security Solution of Choice

...vulnerable to attack Why the latest trends in spam, malware, phishing and blended threats require new, more sophisticated approaches to email security The current technical... Read more

25 April, 2012
HitMalware 2.0

HitMalware 2.0

...respond more effectively than other products to today's increasingly complex and blended threats. HitMalware enhances your current anti-virus software by shielding your identity... Read more

28 July, 2011

Staff training is vital for security

IT departments must keep other employees aware of security, warns a leading chief information officer, as laziness can put businesses at risk Read more

20 June, 2002 by Vivienne Fisher
Today's <endeca_term>Blended Threats</endeca_term>: Identifying and Stopping the Growing Problem of Web-Based Attacks

Today's Blended Threats: Identifying and Stopping the Growing Problem of Web-Based Attacks

...zero-day attacks, targeted threats, use of mass variant attacks and now, blended threats delivered via email. These threats are designed to evade traditional signature... Read more

1 September, 2009
Using UTM Appliances to Stamp Out <endeca_term>Blended Threats</endeca_term>

Using UTM Appliances to Stamp Out Blended Threats

...security defenses. The presenter of this webcast speaks on how to battle blended threats in today's IT environment. The complexity of blended threats, with... Read more

1 January, 2009
Context Adaptive Scanning Engine: Protecting Against the Broadest Range of <endeca_term>Blended Threats</endeca_term>

Context Adaptive Scanning Engine: Protecting Against the Broadest Range of Blended Threats

...questions: Who, Where, What, and How - to weed out legitimate messages from blended threats Read more

1 February, 2008
Spy-Phishing - A New Breed of <endeca_term>Blended Threats</endeca_term>

Spy-Phishing - A New Breed of Blended Threats

In this age of broadband, wireless, and network interconnectivity, one enjoys the unprecedented power of information... Read more

3 September, 2006
No Summer Vacation From Spam

No Summer Vacation From Spam

...discuss the latest email threats-including new spam techniques, phishing scams and blended threats- and how one can protect the organization, email system and end... Read more

1 January, 2009
Strength and Simplicity: Integrated Multi-Threat Protection for Mid-Size Business

Strength and Simplicity: Integrated Multi-Threat Protection for Mid-Size Business

...for a mid-size business involves hard choices. With the proliferation of blended threats, spyware, phishing attacks, and pervasive web-based threats, it's no... Read more

1 November, 2008

Security players form alliance to tackle malware

...absentee — and so the ICSG represents progress on countering the so-called 'blended threats'," he told ZDNet Asia in an email. "However, it does not... Read more

18 August, 2009 by Vivian Yeo
Rootkits: What you should know

Rootkits: What you should know

...rootkits are just one component of what is called a blended threat. Blended threats typically consist of three snippets of code: dropper, loader and rootkit... Read more

21 October, 2008 by Michael Kassner

Businesses told: Beware multi-component malware

...that multi-component threats have existed for several years, but today's blended threats have many more components or functionalities "to maximise the opportunity for... Read more

1 July, 2008 by Vivian Yeo
Modern Network Security: The Migration to Deep Packet Inspection

Modern Network Security: The Migration to Deep Packet Inspection

...DoS attacks. Now, application-layer buffer overflow attacks, Spam, Spyware, Polymorphic Trojans, Blended Threats, Phishing and Pharming are causing unprecedented amounts of financial damage and... Read more

14 July, 2005

Three-stage Bagle variants alarm experts

...victims, then disarm them, and then finally exploit them. "We've seen blended threats before where a virus uses several methods to spread," said Computer... Read more

2 June, 2005 by Matt Loney

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