spyware, adware & malware

Whitepapers

The New Phishing Threat: Phishing Attacks

April 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

Learn about the Latest Email Security Threats. Phishing The threat of email borne attacks is greater than ever with malware volumes increasing drastically. One of the most common, and difficult...

Provided by: Proofpoint

Whitepapers

Learn Why Proofpoint is the Email Security Solution of Choice

April 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

Join the many Google Postini customers who have seamlessly migrated to Proofpoint's best-in-class email security solutions. Looking for alternatives to Google's Message Security (aka Postini)...

Provided by: Proofpoint

Whitepapers

Malware threat landscape 2012: How to defend your business

April 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

Every time you or one of your employees connects to the Internet, your organisation is at risk of infection by malware. Some methods of connection are safer than others, but the main vectors of a...

Provided by: Symantec

Blog Post

2012 Sophos security report: The threat landscape

April 24, 2012 7:29am PDT

Patrick Lambert breaks down the threat types that the Sophos 2012 security report identified in their annual survey. What's still around and what threats are on the rise?

1

White Papers

Malware Incident Handling

April 23, 2012 12:00am PDT

The paper will be a detailed introduction of malware handling for security professionals. This paper will also serve as a guideline for the reader to perform malware handling by providing...

Provided by: Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers

White Papers

Application of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Information Security

April 23, 2012 12:00am PDT

Computer networks are expanding at very fast rate and the number of network users is increasing day by day, for full utilization of networks it need to be secured against many threats including...

Provided by: Science Publications

Blog Post

Flashback infections declining, but Mac users urged to be more vigilant

April 20, 2012 12:08pm PDT

Even as the infections from the Flashback malware decline, researchers are calling for increased vigilance among Mac users. Details emerge on the role of Wordpress-powered blogs in the outbreak.

11 Latest comment by JamesRL

Q&A

A program on your computer has corrupted your default search provider setti

April 16, 2012 6:47am PDT

A program on your computer has corrupted your default search provider setti Error signal keeps on recurring after start up. How do I remove this error! Scan for malware... preferably in Safe...

3 Started by dougbell4422@...  |  Latest comment by shadtek@...

Discussion Threads

[Update] Apple preparing tool to detect and remove Flashback malware

April 13, 2012 4:05am PDT

[Update] Apple preparing tool to detect and remove Flashback malware article root Good step This is a pretty nice step by Apple. Apple is so far to speak to issues regarding a special product,...

3 Started by anjali189  |  Latest comment by Gisabun

Whitepapers

SmartTokens: Delegable Access Control with NFC-Enabled Smartphones

April 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

Today's smartphones and tablets offer compelling computing and storage capabilities enabling a variety of mobile applications with rich functionality. The integration of new interfaces, in...

Provided by: Technische Universitat Clausthal

Whitepapers

Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

April 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

Malware researchers rely on the observation of malicious code in execution to collect datasets for a wide array of experiments, including generation of detection models, study of longitudinal...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Whitepapers

Providing a Secure Interface Using Smart Phone Based Sensors Networks in Cloud Computing

April 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

The research on secure sensor networks in the context of a high-level cloud based brokering architecture and highlighted various research challenges going forward. The authors outline research...

Provided by: Coimbatore Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)

Blog Post

[Update] Apple preparing tool to detect and remove Flashback malware

April 12, 2012 2:05pm PDT

Apple is on the offensive against the Flashback botnet that struck last week. Here's what the counter-attack looks like.

3 Latest comment by Gisabun

Whitepapers

Duqu: Analysis, Detection, and Lessons Learned

April 10, 2012 12:00am PDT

A European company sought the authors' help to investigate a security incident that happened in their IT system. During the investigation, they discovered a new malware that was unknown to all...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Blog Post

Watch out for Flashback trojan on Macs: Reports of over 600K infected

April 5, 2012 11:06am PDT

A growing Mac botnet has resulted from the Flashback trojan, which targets Macs through Java vulnerabilties and is designed to steal personal information. Make sure you are patched.

Discussion Threads

ANALYSIS OF MALWARE SOLUTIONS AVAILABLE TO ENTERPRISE SECURITY

April 4, 2012 6:34am PDT

ANALYSIS OF MALWARE SOLUTIONS AVAILABLE TO ENTERPRISE SECURITY This may be something that the brains of the writers at Tech republic might want to look at: an overview of all the top Anti-Malware...

1 Started by boucaria@...  |  Latest comment by boucaria@...

Whitepapers

Implement Access Control Architecture to Enhance Security and Availability of Cloud Computing Systems

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing can improve utilization of powerful computer systems. However, security problems become an important challenge in the cloud systems. Implementation of antivirus software can cost a...

Provided by: Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)

Whitepapers

A VHDL Implementation of Low Power Virus Detection Processor

April 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Now-a-days, mobile handsets combine the functionality of mobile phones and PDAs. Unfortunately, mobile handsets development process has been driven by market demand, focusing on new features and...

Provided by: IOSR Journal of Engineering

Whitepapers

STOP: Socio-Temporal Opportunistic Patching of Short Range Mobile Malware

March 31, 2012 12:00am PDT

Mobile phones are integral to everyday life with emails, social networking, online banking and other applications; however, the wealth of private information accessible increases economic...

Provided by: University of Cambridge

Whitepapers

Threat Analysis of Incubation Period in Malware Epidemics

March 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

Epidemic malicious codes including Internet worms and botnets have continuously evolved to be more intelligent and complicated. In particular, the recent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers