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Targeted Web attacks review
Reviews According to a June 16 2005 briefing by the NISCC (National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, in the United Kingdom), targeted email Trojan horse attacks have increased in sophistication within the last few months.
[July 13, 2005, 8:30]
Targeted hacking attacks tipped to rise
News The new breed of cybercriminals who develop sophisticated targeted attacks against specific businesses will continue to be a serious threat in 2006, MessageLabs warned this week. In its 2005 Global Security Report, MessageLabs reported that it saw...
[December 20, 2005, 12:15]
Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments
White Papers This paper develops end-to-end probing methods which can measure bottleneck bandwidth along arbitrary, targeted subpaths of a path in the network, including subpaths shared by a set of flows. Accurate measurement of network bandwidth is crucial for...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
Stopping the Targeted Attack: Why Comprehensive Malware Protection Is Superior to Anti Virus Signatures for Protecting Your Organization
White Papers This paper discusses the evolving nature of malware, and why enterprises continue to be highly vulnerable to targeted malware attacks despite deployment of common security solutions like anti-virus software and traditional firewalls.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Stopping the Targeted attack: Why comprehensive malware protection is superior to anti-virus signatures for protecting your organization
White Papers In this white paper, we discuss the evolving nature of malware, and why enterprises continue to be highly vulnerable to targeted malware attacks despite deployment of common security solutions like anti-virus software and traditional firewalls.
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
UK users targeted by banking Trojan
News Banks in the UK, Germany and Spain have been targeted by MetaFisher, otherwise known as Spy-Agent and PWS. Banks in the UK, Germany and Spain have been targeted by MetaFisher, otherwise known as Spy-Agent and PWS.
[March 27, 2006, 9:05]
Businesses targeted by small botnets
News The majority of botnets in enterprises are small and targeted, according to security firm Damballa. While most of the companies were likely to have become compromised through specially tailored, targeted attacks, Ollmann said that in some cases...
[September 30, 2009, 17:27]
PayPal users targeted by email scam
News PayPal subscribers are being targeted by a fraudulent email scheme designed to con them into handing over their personal information. Over the past week, users of eBay's online payments service have been receiving emails masquerading as official...
[March 10, 2003, 11:12]
Microsoft warns of targeted Word attacks
News Microsoft has warned of a potential vulnerability in Word that has reportedly been the subject of targeted attacks. According to Microsoft Security Advisory 953635, the software company is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft...
[July 9, 2008, 17:11]
Online gamblers targeted by scams
News Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be targeted by hackers looking to steal. Earlier this week, F-Secure said it detected a potentially malicious rootkit application targeted at users of CheckRaised.com.
[May 19, 2006, 11:05]
Insecure networks targeted by paedophiles
News Extortionists and fraudsters, drug dealers and malicious hackers -- such as those who perpetrate denial of service attacks -- are also targeted. The head of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has warned that UK companies with poor IT...
[December 10, 2002, 15:22]
Blogger targeted in Twitter, Facebook DoS
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to a site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a...
[August 7, 2009, 10:18]
Defense Against Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers Low-rate TCP-targeted Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks aim at the fact that most operating systems in use today have a common base TCP Retransmission Timeout (RTO) of 1 sec. An attacker injects periodic bursts of packets to fill the bottleneck queue...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Phishing attacks soar as more brands are targeted
News The number of brands targeted increased by nearly 50 percent over the course of 2005, from 64 to 93 in November. Google is increasingly being targeted because of its expansion into different business application models.
[January 18, 2006, 16:10]
Road-tax evaders targeted with new tech
Talkback Instead of wasting yet more tax payers money on another system that increases the public's sense of being constantly under observation by government agencies is it not time to take the more pragmatic approach of applying Road Tax to fuel.
[September 13, 2003, 21:17]
Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers
Talkback Does anyone have a link to the virus magazine mentioned ?
[August 5, 2005, 14:21]
UK users targeted by banking Trojan
Talkback This story was obviously so good it was worth putting it in twice, in case we missed it the first time :)
[July 1, 2006, 1:12]
Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers
Talkback A bit sensationalist don't you think? We're talking about an early beta command shell that isn't even included in a early beta of an operating system.
[August 5, 2005, 13:39]
Road-tax evaders targeted with new tech
Talkback WHEN YOU GO TO EUROPE YO PAY THE TAX IN THE FUEL YET THEY COME HERE WITH HUGE TRUCKS FOR FREE FURTHERMORE WHEN WE TRAVEL ABROAD WE NEED TRAVEL INS OR E111 WHY DO WE TREAT EVERYBODY WHO COMES HERE AND RECOUP NOTHING
[September 6, 2006, 19:01]
Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers
Talkback i'll stay with win xp till they force me to upgrade.i cant imagine how much more memory i need for windows vista.i'm already maxed on my motherboard
[August 5, 2005, 21:49]
