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White Papers
Ten New Topics on Security+ 2011 (SY0-301) (Domain 1.0: Network Security)
Oct 2011
The CompTIA Security+ 2011 (SY0-301) exam has been significantly updated and covers 60 new topics not present in the previous version of the exam. The first topical domain: Network Security, is...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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White Papers
Best Practices of Spyware and Virus Removal
May 2007
This is the most streamlined document I can recommend to anyone who wants to improve their skills in cleaning an infected machine of spyware and viruses. I wrote it for junior technicians working...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
Attack Prevention Technology White Paper
Apr 2008
This paper introduces the common network attacks and the corresponding prevention measures, and describes the features and network applications of the H3C firewall attack prevention technology. It...
Provided by H3C Technologies
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White Papers
Network Security Policy: Best Practices White Paper
Nov 2000
Without a security policy, the availability of your network can be compromised. The policy begins with assessing the risk to the network and building a team to respond. Continuation of the policy...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
The Science of Intrusion Detection System: Attack Identification
Feb 2003
Among the many vendors of intrusion detection systems (IDS), there is marked variation on what constitutes a network intrusion. This has led to many confusing claims by vendors in the IDS market...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Implementing IDS Structures
Apr 2003
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) structures are often created arbitrarily, together without any consideration of why they are needed. An IDS structure comprises the technology, personnel and...
Provided by QinetiQ
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White Papers
Intrusion Prevention: Myths, Challenges, and Requirements
Sep 2003
Four commonly held misconceptions about intrusion prevention are dispelled in this white paper, which focuses on the realities of shielding an enterprise network from today's complex threats and...
Provided by Networks Associates Technology
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Webcasts
Spam, Botnets and Spyware - An Overview of the Current Threat Landscape
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast will discuss what to look out for next in terms of spam attacks against the network. With a consistently evolving threat landscape, it becomes imperative to stay...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop by Derek Melber, Microsoft MVP, MCSE, CISM
Aug 2011
Improving desktop security is a priority for nearly all companies. This is fueled by an increased recognition of the threat unsecured desktops pose, as well as a need to meet compliance...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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White Papers
Exploring Identity Management: Selecting Identity Management Tools
Sep 2003
This white paper offers guidelines on selecting identity management solutions. With vendors defining ‘identity management’ in many different ways, it can be confusing. In order to dispel the...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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Webcasts
The Future Starts Now: Symantec Endpoint Protection V11.0 Available Today
Sep 2007
The presenter, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Symantec, provides a discussion on how Symantec Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver...
Provided by Symantec
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Presentations
Firewall Basics for the Beginning User
Apr 2004
Designed for end-user training, this PowerPoint presentation offers a detailed, yet easy-to-understand explanation of how personal firewall software works, what it can and cannot protect against,...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
Antivirus Product Comparison: A Real-World 'Does It Work' Test
Nov 2004
After an extensive internal test of nearly every antivirus product on the market for higher education, the author concluded that NOD32 is the best antivirus product on the market. Kaspkersky is...
Provided by Colby-Sawyer College
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White Papers
Goldie Locks and the Three Least Privileged Desktops eBook by Derek Melber
Aug 2011
Curious about how least privilege applies to you and your organization? Let Goldie Locks show you in this new eBook written by Microsoft MVP Derek Melber. In the story, Goldie Locks plays the role...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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Case Studies
East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
Jan 2009
East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system....
Provided by 3Com
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White Papers
Panda Managed Office Protection: Switching From AV to SaaS
Mar 2008
SMBs know they are exposed to the same risks and subject to the same regulations as large organizations. And with more threats in circulation, their protection requirements are increasingly...
Provided by Panda Security
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White Papers
Enhancing Interoperability and Stateful Analysis of Cooperative Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Dec 2007
A traditional Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is based on a centralized architecture that does not satisfy the needs of most modern network infrastructures characterized by high traffic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Experiences With Specification-Based Intrusion Detection
Jan 2009
Specification-based intrusion detection, where manually specified program behavioral specifications are used as a basis to detect attacks, have been proposed as a promising alternative that...
Provided by State University of New York, Stony Brook
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White Papers
Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors
Jun 2008
The constant increase in link speeds and number of threats poses challenges to Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), which must cope with higher traffic throughput and perform even more...
Provided by Foundation for Research and Technology - FORTH
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White Papers
Intrusion Detection Using Open Source Tools
Jan 2008
The traditional form of securing the network, the firewall proved to be insufficient. Given the nature and the complexity of the attacks, new ways of protecting the network had to be developed....
Provided by Academy of Economic Studies
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White Papers
A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Jun 2008
An automated system for detecting network traffic anomalies caused by Denial-of-Service attacks is proposed. The system is designed as a two-stage architecture incorporating the change-point...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Utility of Anonymized Network Traces for Intrusion Detection
Sep 2008
To intelligently create policies governing the anonymization of network logs, one must analyze the effects of anonymization on both the security and utility of sanitized data. This paper focuses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Detection of Slow Malicious Worms Using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Jan 2009
Detection of slow worms is particularly challenging due to the stealthy nature of their propagation techniques and their ability to blend with normal traffic patterns. This paper, proposes a...
Provided by Carleton University
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White Papers
SMM Rootkits: A New Breed of OS Independent Malware
Sep 2008
The emergence of hardware virtualization technology has led to the development of OS independent malware such as the Virtual Machine Based Rootkits (VMBRs). This paper draws attention to a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
How Spamhaus Cost-Effectively Eliminates Spam
Mar 2008
If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that...
Provided by Osterman Research
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White Papers
A Dose by Any Other Name
Oct 2008
Years ago, when alt.comp.virus was still useful, 'Name that virus' was a popular virtual party game, and virus names were, if not standardized, at least easy to cross-reference with tools like...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
EAD Technology White Paper
Sep 2008
EAD is a solution to network endpoint access control. By cooperation of the security clients, access devices, security policy server, and third-party server, it enhances the active defense ability...
Provided by H3C Technologies
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White Papers
Designing a Hardware-Accelerated Firewall With Two 10 Gbps Ports
Dec 2008
High-speed packet filtering should be one of the first steps in securing any modern computer network. However, solutions over 1 Gbps are practically impossible to implement in software, and must...
Provided by CESNET
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White Papers
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
Jan 2009
Spam has become a problem of global impact. Most spam messages are currently sent out by captured machines organized in bot networks, which are infected with malicious software and are therefore...
Provided by Seewald Solutions
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White Papers
Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-Based Malware
Apr 2008
While the web provides information and services that enrich their lives in many ways, it has also become the primary vehicle for delivering malware. Once infected with web-based malware, an...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Impeding Malware Analysis Using Conditional Code Obfuscation
Dec 2007
Malware programs that incorporate trigger-based behavior initiate malicious activities based on conditions satisfied only by specific inputs. State-of-the-art malware analyzers discover code...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
IT threats of today and tomorrow and how to stop them
Jun 2009
Keeping your IT infrastructure secure is a top priority for any business. But with so many threats to your systems, it's hard to know what to focus on first. This webcast will look at some of the...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
The End of Antivirus as You Know It: A First Look at VIPRE Enterprise
Jan 2009
This paper describes the rapidly evolving malware landscape facing enterprises today, as well as the next-generation software that addresses today's malware in the most comprehensive, highly...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
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White Papers
Access Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Securing networks against a wide range of threats - viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, and Trojans - is more challenging than ever. Whether it's a global enterprise or a small or medium-sized...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
An In-depth Analysis of Spam and Spammers
Apr 2008
Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant increase in spam...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
It's Time to Fix the Firewall: Re-Establishing the Firewall as the Cornerstone of Enterprise Network Security
Feb 2009
For the last 15 years, port-blocking firewalls have been the cornerstone of enterprise network security. But much like a stone, they've stood still in the face of rapidly evolving applications and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
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White Papers
Fast Algorithms for Local Inconsistency Detection in Firewall ACL Updates
Jun 2008
Filtering is a very important issue in next generation networks. These networks consist of a relatively high number of resource constrained devices with very special features, such as managing...
Provided by Universidad de Sevilla
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White Papers
Temporal Correlations Between Spam and Phishing Websites
Jan 2009
To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing's impact has studied either the spam being sent or...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Extracting Spam Blogs With Co-Citation Clusters
Apr 2008
This paper reports the estimated number of spam blogs in order to assess their current state in the blogosphere. To extract spam blogs, they developed a traversal method among co-citation clusters...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Flow-Level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
Aug 2008
Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
M2KMIX: Identifying the Type of High Rate Flooding Attacks using a Mixture of Expert Systems
Feb 2012
High rate flooding attacks such as SYN flood, UDP flood, and HTTP flood have been posing a perilous threat to Web servers, DNS servers, Mail servers, VoIP servers, etc. These high rate flooding...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Survey on Spam Filtering Techniques
Aug 2011
In the recent years spam became as a big problem of Internet and electronic communication. There developed a lot of techniques to fight them. In this paper the overview of existing e-mail spam...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
A Survey on Various Defense Mechanisms Against Application Layer Distributed Denial of Service Attack
Nov 2011
The severity of application layer Distributed Denial of Service attack has become a major threat to network operators nowadays. Application layer Distributed Denial of Service attack causes...
Provided by Engg Journals Publications
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White Papers
ANN Based Scheme to Predict Number of Zombies in a DDoS Attack
Mar 2012
A real time estimation of the number of zombies in DDoS attack scenario is helpful to suppress the effect of attack by choosing predicted number of most suspicious attack sources for either...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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White Papers
Comparative Analysis of Network Forensic Systems
Oct 2011
Network forensics is scientifically proven techniques to collect, detect, identify, examine, correlate, analyze, and document digital evidence from multiple systems for the purpose of uncovering...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
An Application Layer DDoS Real-Time Detection Method in Flash Crowd
Jan 2012
In recent years, real-time and effective DDoS attack detection system is desired since new application-layer-based DDoS attacks are more undetectable and frequent and the imperceptibility of the...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Sites: A Machine Learning Approach
Apr 2010
As online social networking sites become more and more popular, they have also attracted the attentions of the spammers. In this paper, Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, is studied as an...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
No More Middlebox: Integrate Processing Into Network
Sep 2010
Traditionally, in-network services like firewall, proxy, cache, and transcoders have been provided by dedicated hardware middleboxes. A recent trend has been to remove the middleboxes by deploying...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Authentication in Stealth Distributed Hash Tables
Jun 2006
Most existing DHT algorithms assume that all nodes have equal capabilities. This assumption has previously been shown to be untrue in real deployments, where the heterogeneity of nodes can...
Provided by Lancaster University
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White Papers
Approach of Data Security in Local Network Using Distributed Firewalls
Dec 2011
Firewall is a device or set of instruments designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and regulation is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access...
Provided by Ganpat University
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White Papers
Characterization of BitTorrent Swarms and Their Distribution in the Internet
Dec 2010
The optimization of overlay traffic resulting from applications such as BitTorrent is a challenge addressed by several recent research initiatives. However, the assessment of such optimization...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A New Detection Method for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Traffic Based on Statistical Test
Jan 2009
This paper has proposed a new detection method for DDoS attack traffic based on two-sample t-test. The authors first investigate the statistics of normal SYN Arrival Rate (SAR) and confirm it...
Provided by Journal of Universal Computer Science
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White Papers
Linear-Tree Rule Structure for Firewall Optimization
Apr 2007
Given a list of filtering rules with individual hitting probabilities, it is known that the average processing time of a linear-search based firewall can be minimized by searching rules in some...
Provided by Kyoto University
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White Papers
A Phishing Model and Its Applications to Evaluating Phishing Attacks
Nov 2011
Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. In this paper, the authors present a theoretical yet practical model to study this threat in a...
Provided by Sam Houston State University
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White Papers
Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish
Jul 2007
In this paper, the authors describe the design and evaluation of Anti-Phishing Phil, an online game that teaches users good habits to help them avoid phishing attacks. They used learning science...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Podcasts
Computer Malware
Feb 2008
In this podcast, the speaker explains about computers have become increasingly ubiquitous, so too has computer malware. How can the people protect their computers from this onslaught of viruses,...
Provided by Internet Archive
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White Papers
A Heuristic Process for Local Inconsistency Diagnosis in Firewall Rule Sets
Oct 2009
Writing and managing firewall ACLs are hard and error-prone tasks for a wide range of reasons. During these tasks, inconsistent rules can be introduced. An inconsistent firewall ACL implies in...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Fast Filtered Sampling
Jan 2010
Traffic sampled from the network backbone using uniform packet sampling is commonly utilized to detect heavy hitters, estimate flow level statistics, as well as identify anomalies like DDoS...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Measuring The Botnet Using The Second Character of Bots
Jan 2010
Botnets have become one of the most serious threats to the Internet. They are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), and the authors...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Lightweight Key Renewals for Clustered Sensor Networks
Mar 2010
In sensor networks, sensors are likely to be captured by attackers because they are usually deployed in an unprotected or even a hostile environment. If an adversarial compromises a sensor, he/she...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Cooperative Network Intrusion detection Based on Fuzzy SVMs
Apr 2010
As the network information includes a large number of noise data, in order to reduce or eliminate the noise impact on constructing the hyperplane of SVM, this paper firstly preprocesses the data....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Scalable Approach to Analyzing Network Security Using Compact Attack Graphs
May 2010
The compact attack graphs implicitly reveal the threat of sophisticated multi-step attacks by enumerating possible sequences of exploits leading to the compromising given critical resources in...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Impact of Packet Sampling on Anomaly Detection Metrics
Oct 2006
Packet sampling methods such as Cisco's NetFlow are widely employed by large networks to reduce the amount of traffic data measured. A key problem with packet sampling is that it is inherently a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Blocking Spam by Separating End-User Machines From Legitimate Mail Server Machines
Sep 2011
Spamming botnets present a critical challenge in the control of spam messages due to the sheer volume and wide spread of the botnet members. In this paper, the authors advocate the approach for...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Controlling IP Spoofing Through Inter-Domain Packet Filters
Jan 2012
The Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack is a serious threat to the legitimate use of the Internet. Prevention mechanisms are thwarted by the ability of attackers to forge, or spoof, the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Identifying High Cardinality Internet Hosts
Jan 2009
The Internet host cardinality, defined as the number of distinct peers that an Internet host communicates with, is an important metric for profiling Internet hosts. Some example applications...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
Web Spam Detection Using Different Features
Jul 2011
Spamming is any deliberate action solely in order to boost a web page's position in search engine results, incommensurate with page's real value. Web Spam is the Web pages that are the result of...
Provided by International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (IJSCE)
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White Papers
Cross-Domain Collaborative Anomaly Detection: So Far Yet so Close
Aug 2011
Web applications have emerged as the primary means of access to vital and sensitive services such as online payment systems and databases storing personally identifiable information....
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
From Prey to Hunter
Dec 2010
The authors' global communication infrastructures are powered by large numbers of legacy embedded devices. Recent advances in offensive technologies targeting embedded systems have shown that the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Improving DNS Cache to Alleviate the Impact of DNS DDoS Attack
Feb 2011
In recent years, adversaries have been launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks aimed at DNS (Domain Name System) servers in various levels, and since the DNS is a most critical...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Secure Protocol for Sharing Trust Data in Hybrid P2P Network
Apr 2011
The trust data is critical to the trust model of P2P system. In this paper, the authors present an efficient certificateless cryptography scheme and propose a protocol which provides the ability...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Traffic-Aware Frequent Elements Matching Algorithms for Deep Packet Inspection
May 2011
Deep packet inspection sometimes is called application level semantic detection, which is capable of examining the content of data packets in order to provide application-specific services and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Enhanced SYN Cookie Defence Method for TCP DDoS Attack
Aug 2011
With the development of network, the issues of network security are rapidly becoming a serious problem, and the Denial of Service (DoS) attack has already become the greatest threat to the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Automated Trust Negotiation With Time Behavior
Aug 2011
In Automated Trust Negotiation (ATN), strangers build trust relationship by disclosing attributes credentials alternately. In the recent study of ATN, there was no rigorous formal definition of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Blacklists
Jul 2009
In this paper, the authors study the effectiveness of phishing black-lists. They used 191 fresh phish that were less than 30 minutes old to conduct two tests on eight anti-phishing tool-bars. They...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Application of Singular Spectrum Analysis to the Noise Reduction of Intrusion Detection Alarms
Aug 2011
Intrusion detection systems typically create a large volume of alarms and most of them are false alarms that can be seen as background noises caused by normal system behaviors. Manual analysis of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Social Networks and Context-Aware Spam
Nov 2008
Social networks are popular for online communities. This paper evaluates the risk of sophisticated context-aware spam that could result from information sharing on social networks and discusses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Performance Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Network Firewalls
Mar 2011
Firewalls are no longer just perimeter devices for the data center, but should be weaved into the fabric of the network from edge to edge such as to offer security layered in-depth and ubiquitous....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Proxy Re-signature Schemes : Multi-use, Unidirectional & Translations
Aug 2011
In 1998, Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss proposed proxy re-signatures, in which a semi-trusted proxy acts as a translator between Alice and Bob to translate a signature from Alice into a signature...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Efficient Technique for Detection of Suspicious Malicious Web Site
Nov 2011
In today's web world web sites became attackers' main target. Since days before virus signatures had been used to detect malicious web pages. In this paper the malicious web pages will be detected...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Goldie Locks and the Three Least Privileged Desktops eBook by Derek Melber
Aug 2011
Curious about how least privilege applies to you and your organization? Let Goldie Locks show you in this new eBook written by Microsoft MVP Derek Melber. In the story, Goldie Locks plays the role...
Provided by BeyondTrust
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White Papers
Attack Prevention Technology White Paper
Apr 2008
This paper introduces the common network attacks and the corresponding prevention measures, and describes the features and network applications of the H3C firewall attack prevention technology. It...
Provided by H3C Technologies
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Case Studies
East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
Jan 2009
East Grand Rapids Public Schools is located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA with 350 employees and 2,800 students. School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system....
Provided by 3Com
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White Papers
Panda Managed Office Protection: Switching From AV to SaaS
Mar 2008
SMBs know they are exposed to the same risks and subject to the same regulations as large organizations. And with more threats in circulation, their protection requirements are increasingly...
Provided by Panda Security
-
White Papers
Enhancing Interoperability and Stateful Analysis of Cooperative Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Dec 2007
A traditional Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is based on a centralized architecture that does not satisfy the needs of most modern network infrastructures characterized by high traffic...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Experiences With Specification-Based Intrusion Detection
Jan 2009
Specification-based intrusion detection, where manually specified program behavioral specifications are used as a basis to detect attacks, have been proposed as a promising alternative that...
Provided by State University of New York, Stony Brook
-
White Papers
Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors
Jun 2008
The constant increase in link speeds and number of threats poses challenges to Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), which must cope with higher traffic throughput and perform even more...
Provided by Foundation for Research and Technology - FORTH
-
White Papers
Intrusion Detection Using Open Source Tools
Jan 2008
The traditional form of securing the network, the firewall proved to be insufficient. Given the nature and the complexity of the attacks, new ways of protecting the network had to be developed....
Provided by Academy of Economic Studies
-
White Papers
A Hybrid Approach to Efficient Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Jun 2008
An automated system for detecting network traffic anomalies caused by Denial-of-Service attacks is proposed. The system is designed as a two-stage architecture incorporating the change-point...
Provided by Colorado State University
-
White Papers
Evaluating the Utility of Anonymized Network Traces for Intrusion Detection
Sep 2008
To intelligently create policies governing the anonymization of network logs, one must analyze the effects of anonymization on both the security and utility of sanitized data. This paper focuses...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Detection of Slow Malicious Worms Using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Jan 2009
Detection of slow worms is particularly challenging due to the stealthy nature of their propagation techniques and their ability to blend with normal traffic patterns. This paper, proposes a...
Provided by Carleton University
-
White Papers
SMM Rootkits: A New Breed of OS Independent Malware
Sep 2008
The emergence of hardware virtualization technology has led to the development of OS independent malware such as the Virtual Machine Based Rootkits (VMBRs). This paper draws attention to a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
How Spamhaus Cost-Effectively Eliminates Spam
Mar 2008
If one uses email, one receives spam. While the problem is onerous for individual users, it is dramatically worse for companies, network operators, Internet service providers and other that...
Provided by Osterman Research
-
White Papers
A Dose by Any Other Name
Oct 2008
Years ago, when alt.comp.virus was still useful, 'Name that virus' was a popular virtual party game, and virus names were, if not standardized, at least easy to cross-reference with tools like...
Provided by Eset
-
White Papers
EAD Technology White Paper
Sep 2008
EAD is a solution to network endpoint access control. By cooperation of the security clients, access devices, security policy server, and third-party server, it enhances the active defense ability...
Provided by H3C Technologies
-
White Papers
Designing a Hardware-Accelerated Firewall With Two 10 Gbps Ports
Dec 2008
High-speed packet filtering should be one of the first steps in securing any modern computer network. However, solutions over 1 Gbps are practically impossible to implement in software, and must...
Provided by CESNET
-
White Papers
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
Jan 2009
Spam has become a problem of global impact. Most spam messages are currently sent out by captured machines organized in bot networks, which are infected with malicious software and are therefore...
Provided by Seewald Solutions
-
White Papers
Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-Based Malware
Apr 2008
While the web provides information and services that enrich their lives in many ways, it has also become the primary vehicle for delivering malware. Once infected with web-based malware, an...
Provided by Google
-
White Papers
Impeding Malware Analysis Using Conditional Code Obfuscation
Dec 2007
Malware programs that incorporate trigger-based behavior initiate malicious activities based on conditions satisfied only by specific inputs. State-of-the-art malware analyzers discover code...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
IT threats of today and tomorrow and how to stop them
Jun 2009
Keeping your IT infrastructure secure is a top priority for any business. But with so many threats to your systems, it's hard to know what to focus on first. This webcast will look at some of the...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
-
White Papers
The End of Antivirus as You Know It: A First Look at VIPRE Enterprise
Jan 2009
This paper describes the rapidly evolving malware landscape facing enterprises today, as well as the next-generation software that addresses today's malware in the most comprehensive, highly...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
-
White Papers
Access Protection in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Securing networks against a wide range of threats - viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, and Trojans - is more challenging than ever. Whether it's a global enterprise or a small or medium-sized...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
An In-depth Analysis of Spam and Spammers
Apr 2008
Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant increase in spam...
Provided by Hannam university
-
White Papers
It's Time to Fix the Firewall: Re-Establishing the Firewall as the Cornerstone of Enterprise Network Security
Feb 2009
For the last 15 years, port-blocking firewalls have been the cornerstone of enterprise network security. But much like a stone, they've stood still in the face of rapidly evolving applications and...
Provided by Palo Alto Networks
-
White Papers
Fast Algorithms for Local Inconsistency Detection in Firewall ACL Updates
Jun 2008
Filtering is a very important issue in next generation networks. These networks consist of a relatively high number of resource constrained devices with very special features, such as managing...
Provided by Universidad de Sevilla
-
White Papers
Temporal Correlations Between Spam and Phishing Websites
Jan 2009
To implement a phishing scam, attackers must create a fake website and send spam to attract visitors. To date, empirical research into phishing's impact has studied either the spam being sent or...
Provided by Harvard University
-
White Papers
Extracting Spam Blogs With Co-Citation Clusters
Apr 2008
This paper reports the estimated number of spam blogs in order to assess their current state in the blogosphere. To extract spam blogs, they developed a traversal method among co-citation clusters...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Flow-Level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
Aug 2008
Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Spam Filtering With Several Novel Bayesian Classifiers
Nov 2008
This paper presents spam filtering with three novel bayesian classification methods: Aggregating One-Dependence Estimators (AODE), Hidden Naïve Bayes (HNB), Locally Weighted learning with Naïve...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Spamicity Approach to Web Spam Detection
Jan 2008
Web spam which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance is one of the major obstacles for high quality information...
Provided by Simon Fraser University
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White Papers
Fighting Spam With the NeighborhoodWatch DHT
Jan 2009
This paper presents DHTBL, an anti-spam blacklist built upon a novel secure Distributed Hash Table (DHT). They show how DHTBL can be used to replace existing DNS-based Blacklists (DNSBLs) of IP...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Using Language Models for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
Aug 2008
This paper describes the approach to the spam detection task of the 2008 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge. Their approach focuses on the use of language models and is based on the intuitive notion...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study
Apr 2008
This paper studies the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, they make them...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Intrusion Defense Firewall: Network-Level HIPS at the Endpoint
Oct 2008
Mobile computers that connect directly to the Internet outside of a company's firewall can introduce risk into the corporate network and thus require a higher level of security to protect against...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Mail Defense Against Spam Via a Scheme of Distributed Merit Accumulation
Jan 2009
Infringement of privacy and denial of service attacks can take various forms. Coercing unsolicited emails upon an individual or an organisation is one of those not so obvious forms. Their approach...
Provided by University of Western Sydney
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White Papers
Denial of Service Attacks and the Emergence of Intrusion Prevention Systems
Nov 2007
In an age of political unrest and war, the internet is being used as a source of constant communication and even attack. Since 2000, Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service...
Provided by tylerAreber.com
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Webcasts
Spam, Botnets and Spyware - An Overview of the Current Threat Landscape
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast will discuss what to look out for next in terms of spam attacks against the network. With a consistently evolving threat landscape, it becomes imperative to stay...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Are Spyware and Phishing Secretly Compromising Your Network?
Jan 2009
Spyware and phishing are quickly becoming the most costly online threats for organizations across all industries. In fact, by 2010, 70% of all IT security incidents will be spyware-related. By...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Combat Spyware Effectively Before It Infiltrates Your Network
Jan 2009
While less visible to users than spam and virus attacks, Spyware constitutes a serious and increasing threat to enterprise networks. Silently installed Spyware can subject the company and...
Provided by Finjan
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Webcasts
How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
Aug 2009
Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to...
Provided by Symantec
