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Targeted E-mail Attacks: Window of Exploite Into Your Network
White Papers The webcast will provide guidance, share case studies and provide technical demonstrations for understanding targeted e-mail attacks and the associated risks. This webcast will discuss the new threats facing global businesses today and the most...
[June 10, 2009, 1:21]
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]
Final Report: Targeted Security Assessment of the Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance
White Papers This paper details a targeted assessment from Black Hat Consulting of the Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance and how it handles a comprehensive set of fundamental real-world attack methodologies, ranging from layer 2 to layer 7 attack methods as...
[June 13, 2006, 1:00]
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]
Targeted Business Strategy Beefs Up Customer Relationships
White Papers The challenge was to improve customer relationships, moving forward with a targeted e-business strategy. Kiwi Dairies is a $3.2 billion company with 4,500 employees across Australasia. It has the largest dairy factory in the world at Hawera, mid...
[November 29, 2004, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
An Entropy Approach to Unintrusive Targeted Advertising on the Web
White Papers This paper describes the formulation of a new model for unintrusive targeted advertising on the web, extending the linear programming approach taken by Langheinrich et al. A feature of our model is that it avoids unrealistic solutions of the type...
[April 1, 2004, 23:01]
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]
Market Software Using Highly Targeted Direct Messaging
White Papers This white paper from Macrovision introduces the concept of using highly targeted direct messaging as a vehicle for marketing your company's software products. Download the paper to learn why a highly targeted direct message that reaches the right...
[April 4, 2008, 3:57]
A Targeted, Top-Down Approach to Sarbanes-Oxley Data
White Papers This paper describes a top-down, targeted approach to achieving confidence in that data. In a perfect world, it would be easy for the CEO and CFO to attest to the controls for their data. But in the real world, just the flow charts for all the IT...
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
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]
Protection of Corporated Networks Against Targeted Attacks
White Papers In contrast to typical malicious code attacks, carried out indiscriminately in order to affect as many systems as possible, targeted attacks can be defined as those which look to affect a specific user.
[June 24, 2009, 14:59]
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]
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]
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]
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]
A Methodology Targeted at the Insertion of Data Warehouse Technology in Corporations
White Papers The paper presents a methodology targeted at the development of DW pilot projects, which aims at the smooth adoption of DW technology by corporations. A particular interest has been observed in the Data Warehouse (DW) technology by corporations...
[April 28, 2006, 0:00]
SpamHaus targeted by child-porn email attack
News Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus is the victim of a devious spam email doing the rounds, which makes it a target of floods of angry emails. Recipients are told that they have subscribed to a child pornography mail order service and that a set of CDs...
[December 2, 2003, 16:15]
