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White Papers

Can You Infect Me Now? Malware Propagation in Mobile Phone Networks

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

In this paper the authors evaluate the effects of malware propagating using communication services in mobile phone networks. Although self-propagating malware is well understood in the Internet,...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

On the Detection and Origin Identification of Mobile Worms

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

Mobility can be exploited to spread malware among wireless nodes moving across network domains. Because such mobile worms spread across domains by exploiting the physical movement of mobile nodes,...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Whitepapers

Stealthy Malware Detection Through VMM-Based "Out-of-the-Box" Semantic View Reconstruction

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

An alarming trend in malware attacks is that they are armed with stealthy techniques to detect, evade, and subvert malware detection facilities of the victim. On the defensive side, a fundamental...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Stealthy Malware Detection Through VMM-Based "Out-of-the-Box" Semantic View Reconstruction

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

An alarming trend in malware attacks is that they are armed with stealthy techniques to detect, evade, and subvert malware detection facilities of the victim. On the defensive side, a fundamental...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Renovo: A Hidden Code Extractor for Packed Executables

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

As reverse engineering becomes a prevalent technique to analyze malware, malware writers leverage various anti-reverse engineering techniques to hide their code. One technique commonly used is...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Panorama: Capturing System-Wide Information Flow for Malware Detection and Analysis

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

Malicious programs spy on users' behavior and compromise their privacy. Even software from reputable vendors, such as Google Desktop and Sony DRM media player, may perform undesirable actions....

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

Can You Infect Me Now?: Malware Propagation in Mobile Phone Networks

November 2, 2007 12:00am PDT

This paper evaluates the effects of malware propagating using communication services in mobile phone networks. Although self-propagating malware is well understood in the Internet, mobile phone...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Blog Post

Security news roundup: November 1

November 1, 2007 10:38pm PDT

Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which cover a vulnerability discovered in Novell's BorderManager 3.8 Client Trust, a memory corruption vulnerability in CUPS, and...

White Papers

Enterprise Mobile Security: Protecting Mobile Data and Increasing Productivity

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

This whitepaper discusses mobile security issues faced by organizations and provides IT executives with actionable mobile security best practices to mitigate those risks. Introduction Today's...

Provided by: Trend Micro

White Papers

MessageLabs Intelligence: October 2007--"MP3 Stock Spam Is Up...More Spammers Sent Down"

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Top line results of this report include: Spam - 74.5% in October (an increase of 1% since September) Viruses - One in 161.5 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 1.4% since...

Provided by: MessageLabs, now part of Symantec

Webcasts

IT Manager Webcast: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Latest Trends in Vulnerabilities and Malicious Software (Level 100)

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Data from hundreds of millions of Internet-connected systems and some of the Internet's busiest online services gives Microsoft a unique view of the security threats facing Internet users. This...

Provided by: Microsoft

Case Studies

Banque Misr Safeguards Profitability and Reputation With Improved Threat Management

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Banque Misr provides corporate, retail and Islamic banking services in Egypt. To help its corporate customers grow their businesses, the bank wants to be able to offer not only excellent financial...

Provided by: CA

Case Studies

Adena Health System Gets Total Protection and Support From McAfee

November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Adena Health System was founded in 1895 as a small hospital that served Chillicothe, Ohio. The company wanted to provide fast access to medical information, while maintaining security and...

Provided by: McAfee

Downloads

MalwareLog Tool 1.0.0.1 (Windows)

October 31, 2007 12:00am PDT

MalwareLog tool shows the running program modules (startup programs, BHOs, Toolbars, plug-ins, LSPs, hidden malwares) and separates them from Windows operating system modules/processes. User can...

Provided by: Malwarelog.com

Case Studies

EC Suite.com Adopts Lumension Security's Positive Security Model to Proactively Remediate Vulnerabilities, Prevent Malware, and Protect Against Data Threats

October 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

EC Suite.com is an e-commerce solutions provider based in Tempe, Ariz. The IT security staff at EC Suite.com is charged with protecting the company's proprietary information and systems. "The very...

Provided by: Lumension

Case Studies

Barracuda Networks Quashes Alarm Over Spyware at EMS

October 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

EMS provides state-of-the-art, wireless fire and security alarms. Re-occurring spyware infections across many user machines posed not only a potential data security threat, but was also slowing...

Provided by: Barracuda Networks

Discussion Threads

Is security software your best protection?

October 24, 2007 9:49pm PDT

Is security software your best protection? article root Have you successfully broken any bad habits? I don't have any magic bullets here. There are a lot of ways that we can shape behavior...

22 Started by williamjones  |  Latest comment by oneoar51

Blog Post

Is security software your best protection?

October 24, 2007 9:41pm PDT

There's a lot of software out there that promises to make our computers safer, and everyone has their favorites. Corporations need these utilities to protect their investment, but can we...

22 Latest comment by oneoar51

Blog Post

iPhone developments by third parties cause security concern

October 22, 2007 12:58pm PDT

Apple has announced that it will release a SDK for the iPhone to third-party developers by February 2008. This should dramatically increase the number of applications available for the device and...

Blog Post

Skype Trojan poses as the real McCoy to steal your password

October 19, 2007 9:51am PDT

A new password-stealing Trojan that targets Skype is on the loose. It poses as a security plug-in for the popular VoIP service but instead presents its own log-in screen to steal your user name...