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IN FOCUS: Is ClamAV Vulnerable to a Corporate Attack?
Posted by SteveT on Thursday, February 07, 2008 :: Last Updated on Thursday, February 07, 2008:: Views 542 |
Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
Software vulnerabilities caused by faulty code pop up every day, and most of them are fixed in a reasonably quick fashion. But there's another type of software vulnerability that's going unpatched. That vulnerability has to do with intellectual property and patent claims.
As you might kno...
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IN FOCUS: Vendors' Lax Security is Our Problem
Posted by SteveT on Thursday, January 31, 2008 :: Last Updated on Thursday, January 31, 2008:: Views 573 |
by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
Last week, I blogged about a rather shocking incident. It's shocking both because it even happened and because it continues to happen. The incident I'm referring to is that Best Buy shipped digital picture frames that contained a virus that was installed during the manufacturing process...
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IN FOCUS: Malware Evolves to Bypass Common Controls
Posted by SteveT on Thursday, December 20, 2007 :: Last Updated on Sunday, January 20, 2008:: Views 264 |
by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
Botnets and Trojans are huge headaches. They're everywhere, and their numbers are growing exponentially. Sometimes that kind of malware is discovered by security scanning software. Other times it's discovered by unusual traffic patterns sent to specific IP addresses, sometimes on atypic...
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IN FOCUS: Spammers Adopt New Tactics
Posted by SteveT on Saturday, November 17, 2007 :: Last Updated on Sunday, January 20, 2008:: Views 379 |
by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
Got spam? Of course you do. For the life of me, I cannot understand the minds of spammers. They're simply not mentally healthy individuals, as evidenced by their escalating intrusions into our inboxes and Web browsers.
So how bad is the problem now? According to statistics published b...
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IN FOCUS: Symantec's New Internet Security Threat Report
Posted by SteveT on Thursday, March 29, 2007 :: Last Updated on Sunday, January 20, 2008:: Views 708 |
by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
Security vendors often release reports based on their perspective of current and future Internet-related security threats. The reports are useful in learning what the vendor sees, which in turn can lead you to your own widened perspective on potential problems.
Symantec recently...
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