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Vulnerable medical devices: A clear and present danger

January 14, 2013 7:26am PST

Technology is helping to save lives, but vulnerable medical devices and computers are a real risk. Michael P. Kassner asks the experts about the state of healthcare security.

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Noisy Mean Eld Game Model for Malware Propagation in Opportunistic Networks

January 8, 2013 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors present analytical mean field techniques that can be used to better understand the behavior of malware propagation in opportunistic large networks. They develop a...

Provided by: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Towards Network Containment in Malware Analysis Systems

January 7, 2013 12:00am PST

This paper focuses on the containment and control of the network interaction generated by malware samples in dynamic analysis environments. A currently unsolved problem consists in the existing...

Provided by: Institut Eurecom

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Lines of Malicious Code: Insights Into the Malicious Software Industry

January 7, 2013 12:00am PST

Malicious software installed on infected computers is a fundamental component of online crime. Malware development thus plays an essential role in the underground economy of cyber-crime. Malware...

Provided by: Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Antivirus Management in the Cloud for Small Businesses

January 4, 2013 12:00am PST

Learn which malware defense is best for your small business. Thanks to cloud computing, centrally managed antivirus is now available to SMBs (businesses with 500 employees or less) and SMBs that...

Provided by: GFI Software

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GFI Case Study: Mitsubishi Polysilicon

January 4, 2013 12:00am PST

Learn how Mitsubishi Polysilicon solved their need for malware protection. Unhappy with their current antivirus product, Mitsubishi Polysilicon set out to find a malware solution that would not...

Provided by: GFI Software

Case Studies

GFI Case Study: Brevard Public Schools

January 4, 2013 12:00am PST

Learn how one school district achieved total endpoint security for its PCs and servers. After using an antivirus product for 6 years, Brevard Public Schools hit the point where they nearly had to...

Provided by: GFI Software

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Antivirus Evaluation Guide

January 4, 2013 12:00am PST

Selecting the right antivirus solution for your company is as simple as 1, 2, 3. IT administrators are now faced with a unique set of challenges keeping their organization as well as their user...

Provided by: GFI Software

Discussion Threads

Battling the Google Redirect virus

January 3, 2013 1:10am PST

Battling the Google Redirect virus article root In Firefox - add-on malware? Haven't met this myself, but on the Firefox help forum it was reported removing the add-on "Printing Helper 2.5" cured...

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Battling the Google Redirect virus

January 2, 2013 10:56am PST

Consultant Bob Eisenhardt recounts his frustrating experience trying to track down and get rid of a client's search-redirect virus. Here's how he finally ditched it.

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Classification of Malicious Domain Names Using Support Vector Machine and Bi-Gram Method

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Everyday there are millions of domains registered and some of them are related to malicious activities. Recently, domain names have been used to operate malicious networks such as botnet and other...

Provided by: Konkuk University

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A Study on the Live Forensic Techniques for Anomaly Detection in User Terminals

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Recently, Malware have been created in order to commit a theft user's permission via C&C botnet and stopover server. It makes information leakage by arbitrarily modifying or creation of system...

Provided by: Korea University

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Detection of Malware by using Sequence Alignment Strategy and Data Mining Techniques

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Malware is basically malicious software or programs which are a major challenge or major threats for the computer and different computer applications in the field of IT and cyber security....

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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Out-of-the-Box Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying...

Provided by: George Mason University

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Code Graph for Malware Detection

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

When an application program is executed for the first time, the results of its execution are not always predictable. Since the host will be damaged by a malware as soon as it is executed,...

Provided by: Korea University

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2013 Mobile Malware Report

January 1, 2013 12:00am PST

While mobile threats are still largely mischiefware and have not yet broken the device’s security model but instead more focused on for-pay texting scams or stealing personal information, the...

Provided by: Blue Coat Systems

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Reinventing Antivirus: How cloud architecture and behavior recognition are changing the security

December 31, 2012 12:00am PST

Have you seen a lot of articles and blog posts with titles like “Is Antivirus Dead”? If so, there is a good reason: Traditional signature-based antivirus technology is rapidly heading toward...

Provided by: Webroot Software Inc.

Blog Post

What businesses would like to see from Apple in 2013

December 27, 2012 9:00am PST

Erik Eckel drafts a holiday wish list of things businesses would like to see from Apple in 2013. What would you add?

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Systematic Treatment of Remote Attestation

December 20, 2012 12:00am PST

Embedded computing devices (such as actuators, controllers and sensors of various sizes) increasingly permeate many aspects of modern life: from medical to automotive, from building and factory...

Provided by: University of Calgary