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'Stages' author denies malicious intent
News "Zulu" is an Argentine programmer in his 20s who writes viruses in his spare time. His "works" include the much-publicized Bubble Boy and Monopoly viruses. His latest creation, the virus Stages.Worm, has everyone talking about him again.
[June 23, 2000, 9:03]
Gates promotes isolation
News Gates added that people with malicious intent are not just focusing on Microsoft. Gates cited isolation as the most important solution, making sure that people with malicious intent can't arbitrarily send code to all the different systems.
[June 28, 2004, 11:45]
ActiveX flaw exposes Flash users to hackers
News Furthermore, said eEye, this issue was found in the wild, "and it is not safe to assume it could not be found by others with malicious intent. Nor do we believe it is safe to assume this has not been found by users with malicious intent.
[May 3, 2002, 15:56]
Antivirus firms consider protection against Sony DRM rootkit
News Due to what Cluley said is a lack of malicious intent on Sony's part, Sophos is not defining the rootkit itself as malware, preferring instead to refer to it as ineptware. Kaspersky uses the term riskware to define programs that behave like malware...
[November 4, 2005, 16:35]
Disaster recovery: Don't forget about tape
News Replication systems leave you open to the possibility that corrupted data on one server could easily be replicated to other servers before you detect the malicious intent of an intruder. While you could replicate the data to another site, that data...
[October 20, 2005, 15:25]
Oracle: 'Tonka toy' of the database market?
News According to security vendor Internet Security Systems (ISS), this vulnerability allowed users with malicious intent to view company site structures. Whilst a vulnerability was found, there was no case of it being used for malicious intent," said...
[December 13, 2001, 11:43]
Back to the Future: A Framework for Automatic Malware Removal and System Repair
White Papers Malware is software with malicious intent. Besides viruses and worms, spyware, adware, and other newer forms of malware have recently emerged as widely-spread threats to system security. It is difficult to detect malware reliably because new and...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers
Talkback Hmmm, did you mean that Spamhaus.org had malicious intent to harm your business, or did you mean that your corporate server was blacklisted for having sent spam.and your legitimate mail was caught in the middle.
[July 1, 2004, 17:22]
User Account Control Overview
White Papers As hackers and others with malicious intent evolve in the level of their security threats, it is imperative that developers work together with Microsoft to continue to create technology that minimizes the impact of this malware.
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
this article sums things up nicely I think
Talkback It is clear from the article that there was no malicious intent and some would see it as perfectly legitimate to seek data many people believe the US hides from the world and its own people - there is a belief that it was sensitivity around 9/11...
[November 17, 2009, 10:24]
Network- vs. Host-based Intrusion Detection: A Guide to Intrusion Detection Technology
White Papers In either case, these products look for attack signatures, specific patterns that usually indicate malicious or suspicious intent. The detection systems (IDS) take either a network-or a host-based approach to recognizing and deflecting attacks.
[August 21, 2003, 2:04]
Unified Threat Management Appliances and Identity-Based Security: The Next Level in Network Security
White Papers These insider threats lead to security loopholes created out of user ignorance and malicious intent with unauthorized access, leading to loss of data confidentiality, bandwidth abuse, and more. Enterprises, regardless of size, are increasingly...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
A Survey on MANET Intrusion Detection
White Papers As a result, attacks with malicious intent have been and will be devised to exploit these vulnerabilities and to cripple the MANET operation. In recent years, the security issues on MANET have become one of the primary concerns.
[September 11, 2009, 1:52]
The OneSign Guide to Thwarting Insider Threats
White Papers In both cases, the perpetrator is an outside party who breaches the data network of a company, institution, or government entity with malicious intent. When people think about IT saboteurs, most of them picture a professional cyber-criminal or...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Scanning Ajax for XSS Entry Points
White Papers Cross site scripting (XSS) can make browsers vulnerable to critical information hijacking if exploited with malicious intent. The continuous adoption of Web 2.0 architecture for web applications is instrumental in Ajax, Web services and Flash...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling
White Papers Malware, also known as malicious code and malicious software, refers to a program that is inserted into a system, usually covertly, with the intent of compromising the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the victim's data, applications...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
PeerGuardian
Downloads PeerGuardian for OS X uses a converted version of the Anti-P2P list from http://methlabs.org/sync/, and protects users from the unwanted entry of organizations of malicious intent such as BayTSP, the MPAA, and the RIAA.
[March 9, 2009, 14:42]
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
White Papers Here, the paper proposes using machine learning approaches to learn global (i.e.malware intent) and local (i.e.specific functionality) malware properties based on behavioral traces of malware recorded in virtual environments, and tests them on a...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Microsoft warns of Mac Office security flaw
News Microsoft issued a security warning on Wednesday saying that programmers with malicious intent could use Mac Office v. Companies using standard firewall procedures could prevent problems from the outside, although malicious code could still get...
[February 7, 2002, 16:38]
Web-borne security threats soar
News Four out of five infected sites had been compromised, with just one in five specifically created with malicious intent. This year has seen a "worrying" increase in the amount of malicious code on the internet, according to Graham Cluley, Sophos...
[July 25, 2007, 13:33]
