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SANS Institute: Email Security
White Papers Email is well-established as a prime means of communication for business purposes that is quicker and cheaper than more traditional methods. Yet it brings with it the necessity to make one's corporate messaging system as secure as possible.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
StorageTek SANs Keep The Sanger Institute At The Forefront Of Genome Research
White Papers Every day about 100,000 sequence reactions are run at the Sanger Institute, generating approximately 50 million bases of raw sequence data. The Sanger Institute was finding it harder to manage its rapidly increasing data volumes, and also needed a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SANS Tool Talk Webcast: Desktop Security - A Multi-Layered Approach To Protecting Your Investment
White Papers This informative Webcast hosted by The SANS Institute explores the threat environment that host systems face and addresses the confusion surrounding desktop technology. SANS Institute's Tool Talks are opportunities for you to hear from Information...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Hackers' Favourite Security Holes Revealed
News On Thursday, the System Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute published a list of exploits most often used to gain illegal access to network servers. The SANS Institute started soliciting input from security experts in February...
[June 2, 2000, 8:53]
CIA: Cyberattack Caused Multi-city Blackout
News Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA's disclosure on Friday. CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue told a Sans Institute conference in New Orleans on Wednesday that the CIA had evidence of successful cyberattacks against various...
[January 21, 2008, 11:58]
Researchers Redefine The Internet Blacklist
News At next week's 17th Usenix Security Symposium, researchers from the Sans Institute and SRI International will present the results of their experiments with 'highly predictive blacklisting' (HPB), a service that tailors blacklists for particular...
[July 25, 2008, 16:03]
Storm Worm Resurfaces, Tries Love Angle Again
News After a hiatus, the gang behind the Storm worm is attempting to exploit people's curiosity about a fictional love interest to tempt users into downloading the malware, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
[June 3, 2008, 11:42]
FBI Aims To Patch Security Holes
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the SysAdmin, Audit, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute, a research and education organisation made up of government, corporate and academic experts, will unveil the initiatives on...
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
PHP Exploit Code Found On Image-hosting Site
News The exploit code slipped through the site's defences with the aid of a legitimate image at the beginning of the file, according to a blog post on the Sans Institute's Internet Storm Center. Once this type of malicious GIF is uploaded to a server...
[June 21, 2007, 14:10]
BP Hits Out At Security Standards
News Open source has a role to play, as well as academia," said Dorey, speaking at the launch of the latest SANS Institute security research on Tuesday. Today, application security is inadequate because it "relies on the good will and good citizenship...
[November 25, 2005, 15:10]
Schneier: Cyber-extortion On The Rise
News He wrote the blog post in response to a CIA statement, reported by security training body the Sans Institute, that a cyberattack had caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US.
[January 23, 2008, 16:28]
Linux/UNIX Threats: SANS Top 10
News For the past four years the SANS Institute has partnered with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre to compile and publish its list of the most commonly exploited IT security vulnerabilities for both Windows and UNIX systems.
[November 22, 2004, 12:10]
Hackers Steal One Million Credit Cards
News More than 40 e-banking and e-commerce sites have been targeted and compromised by teams of Russian and Ukrainian hackers, said experts at the FBI's SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute on Thursday.
[March 9, 2001, 11:53]
US Agencies Demand Tighter Software Security
News The government effort could lead to improvements in computer security for all consumers of information technology, said Alan Paller, research director at the Sans (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute.
[September 23, 2003, 11:14]
Hackers Focus Attacks Against Applications
News The SANS Institute, an independent research group, said that the IT industry has been "set back years", because software vendors have neglected security. We're in exactly the same position as six years ago - the user community just hasn't noticed...
[November 22, 2005, 14:00]
Automated Worm Attacks MS SQL Server
News The Incidentes.org (SANS Institute) report on this worm lists the following files as being enclosed in SQLSnake:drivers/services.exe -- Foundstone's fscan.exe (UPX packed) clemail.exe pwdump2.exe run.js samdump.dll sqldir.js sqlexec.js...
[June 5, 2002, 14:09]
Defend Against Patch-based Exploits, Warns Sans
News Security training organisation the Sans Institute claims centralised patch management can be used to counter the threat of automated, patch-based exploit generation. However, Sans contributor John Bambenek criticised this approach, saying that the...
[May 6, 2008, 16:51]
Cyber-espionage Hits Businesses
News Alan Paller, director of research for the Sans Institute, warns of the spread of cyber-espionage to the private sector.
[April 25, 2008, 16:02]
Don't Pay For Insecure Software, Says SANS
News While answering panel questions at the SANS Institute's Top 20 Vulnerabilities conference at the Department of Trade and Industry's offices in London on Friday, director of research for the organisation Alan Paller lashed out at vendors for...
[October 11, 2004, 10:55]
PC Survival Time 'down To 20 Minutes'
News According to the latest data from the Internet Storm Center at the US-based SANS Institute, which provides research and education on security issues, the historical trend is continuing its downward journey, and has now reached a point at which it...
[August 17, 2004, 17:35]
