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Whitepapers
Antivirus: The Hippest New Apple Accessory
Feb 2013
Remember the days when Macs users thought they were not targets of malicious behavior and would be relatively free of malware? For a while it was true, at least more than for PC users, for whom...
Provided by GFI Software
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Whitepapers
Security Brief: Evolving Threats Demand New Approaches To Security
May 2013
The threat environment we ae seeing today is radically different from what existed just six months ago. Six months from now, I expect to say the same thing. The actors behind the threats are...
Provided by Akamai
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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior
May 2008
Malicious software in form of Internet worms, computer viruses, and Trojan horses poses a major threat to the security of networked systems. The diversity and amount of its variants severely...
Provided by University of Tubingen
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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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Whitepapers
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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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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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
-
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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Whitepapers
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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Whitepapers
Classification of Web Application Vulnerabilities
Mar 2013
Web applications provide access to increasing amounts of information, some of which is confidential. From an application perspective, vulnerability identification is absolutely critical and often...
Provided by IJESIT
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Whitepapers
Secure Authentication With 3D Password
Mar 2013
Providing authentication to any system leads to provide more security to that system. There are many authentication techniques are available, Such as textual password, graphical password, etc. but...
Provided by IJESIT
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Whitepapers
Developed Secure Network Model Using Radius Server
Mar 2013
History of networks dates back to the early 1970's and due to the emerging ding demand placed on networks by administrators and users, securing the network becomes a necessity. In this paper, the...
Provided by IJESIT
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Whitepapers
Improving Efficiency and Security Based Data Sharing in Large Scale Network
Jan 2013
The Key Generation Center (KGC) could decrypt any messages addressed to specific users by generating their private keys. This is not suitable for data sharing scenarios where the data owner would...
Provided by IJESIT
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Whitepapers
Understanding and Improving App Installation Security Mechanisms Through Empirical Analysis of Android
Oct 2012
The authors provide a detailed analysis of two largely unexplored aspects of the security decisions made by the Android operating system during the app installation process: update integrity and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Characterizing Kernel Malware Behavior With Kernel Data Access Patterns
Mar 2011
Characterizing malware behavior using its control flow faces several challenges, such as obfuscations in static analysis and the behavior variations in dynamic analysis. This paper introduces a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
PRIVEXEC: Private Execution as an Operating System Service
Mar 2013
Privacy has become an issue of paramount importance for many users. As a result, encryption tools such as TrueCrypt, OS-based full-disk encryption such as FileVault, and privacy modes in all...
Provided by Northeastern University
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Whitepapers
Precise Enforcement of Progress-Sensitive Security
Oct 2012
Program progress (or termination) is a covert channel that may leak sensitive information. To control information leakage on this channel, semantic definitions of security should be progress...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
New Side Channels Targeted at Passwords
Sep 2008
Side channels are typically viewed as attacks that leak cryptographic keys during cryptographic algorithm processing, by observation of system side effects. In this paper, the authors present new...
Provided by Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
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Whitepapers
A Rose by Any Other Name or an Insane Root? Adventures in Namespace Resolution
Jul 2011
Namespaces are fundamental to computing systems. Each namespace maps the names that clients use to retrieve resources to the actual resources themselves. However, the indirection that namespaces...
Provided by Penn State CSE 121
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Whitepapers
Context-Centric Security
Jul 2012
Users today are unable to use the rich collection of third-party untrusted applications without risking significant privacy leaks. In this paper, the authors argue that current and proposed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Supervised Grid-of-Tries: A Novel Framework for Classifier Management
Jan 2010
Packet classification is the problem of identifying which one of a set of rules maintained in a database is best matched by an incoming packet at a router and taking the action specified by the...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Whitepapers
Transforming Commodity Security Policies to Enforce Clark-Wilson Integrity
Dec 2012
Modern distributed systems are composed from several off-the-shelf components, including operating systems, virtualization infrastructure, and application packages, upon which some custom...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Network Traffic Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Using WINPCAP Tool With JPCAP API
Nov 2012
Today's enterprise networks are composed of multiple types of interconnected networks. Operations and management staff must provide an efficient, reliable and secure operating environment to...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Transmission Network Expansion with Transmission Loading Relief
Apr 2013
Transmission planning should seek to maintain or improve system security over time and facilitate robust wholesale power markets by improving transmission capacity for bulk power transfers across...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Phishing & Anti-Phishing Techniques: Case Study
May 2013
Phishing is a con game that scammers use to collect personal information from unsuspecting users. The false e-mails often look surprisingly legitimate and even the Web pages where users are asked...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Data Management by Privacy Preserving in the Anonymous Database Using Suppression and Generalization Protocols
Nov 2012
Today there is an increased concern for privacy. The availability of huge numbers of databases recording a large variety of information about individuals makes it possible to discover information...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
Survey and Analysis of Client Side Detection of Content Sniffing Attack
Mar 2013
From the last few years, the attacks based on web portals have caused significant harm to users. Many of these attacks occur through the exploitations of common security vulnerabilities in...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
A Study on Firewall Policy Anomaly Representation Techniques
Apr 2013
A firewall is a system that acts as an interface between private network and a public network. It implements the security policy based on the rules defined by the network administrator; which...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey and Analysis of Classification Techniques
Apr 2013
Today it is very important to provide a high level security to protect highly sensitive and private information. Intrusion Detection System is an essential technology in Network Security. Nowadays...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
STRIDE: Sanctuary Trail - Refuge From Internet DDoS Entrapment
May 2013
The authors propose STRIDE, a new DDoS-resilient Internet architecture that isolates attack traffic through viable band-width allocation, preventing a botnet from crowding out legitimate flows....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Accountable Key Infrastructure (AKI): A Proposal for a Public-Key Validation Infrastructure
May 2013
Recent trends in public-key infrastructure research explore the tradeoff between decreased trust in Certificate Authorities (CAs), resilience against attacks, communication overhead (bandwidth and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Design, Implementation and Verification of an EXtensible and Modular Hypervisor Framework
Apr 2013
The authors present the design, implementation, and verification of XMHF - an eXtensible and Modular Hypervisor Framework. XMHF is designed to achieve three goals - modular extensibility,...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Whitepapers
A Leakage Resilient MAC
May 2013
The authors put forward a Message Authentication Code (MAC) for which they claim a high degree of resilience against a key-recovering attacker expoiting practical side channels. They achieve this...
Provided by University of Brighton
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Whitepapers
A Comparison of Statistical Techniques for Detecting Side-Channel Information Leakage in Cryptographic Devices
May 2013
The evaluation of the resilience of cryptographic devices against side-channel adversaries is an issue of increasing importance. The development of a standardized testing methodology for...
Provided by University of Brighton
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Whitepapers
Cryptanalysis of Grigoriev-Shpilrain Physical Asymmetric Scheme with Capacitors
May 2013
In a paper published few days ago, Grigoriev and Shpilrain propose to build a system for transmission of information without a shared secret, or essentially a sort of public key cryptosystem,...
Provided by University College Dublin
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Whitepapers
Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thwart Unwanted Communication
Feb 2008
Online communication media such as email, instant messaging, bulletin boards, voice-over-IP, and social networking sites allow any sender to reach potentially millions of users at near zero...
Provided by Rice Software Consulting
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Whitepapers
Malware Classification based on Clustering and classification
May 2013
Malware, short for malicious software, means a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code. Malware is a pervasive problem in distributed computer and network...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Website Hacking: SQL Injection Method and its Prevention
Apr 2013
In the Internet, the websites has an important role to fulfill user requirements. These websites are maintained to be secure. The third person may hack a website without knowledge of developer and...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
Intelligence Driven Computer Network Defence By Intrusion Kill Chain
Apr 2013
Conventional network defense tools such as intrusion detection systems and anti-virus focus on the vulnerability component of risk, and traditional incident response methodology presupposes a...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
Protection Method Against Unauthorised Issues in Network-Honeypots
Apr 2013
From common man to huge organization everyone uses network daily for data transfer or for business purpose based on their requirement. But there is no full security to the services provided by the...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
Prevention Proposals for Threats in Internet Services
Apr 2013
The explosion of the public Internet and e-commerce, private computers, and computer networks, if not adequately secured, are increasingly vulnerable to damaging attacks. Hackers, viruses,...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
SQLi Blocker
Apr 2013
In this paper, the authors SQLi Blocker (SQL Injection Blocker) presents the idea of blocking an SQL injection attack by using different agents at different layers each one works to block the SQL...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
SeDAX: A Scalable, Resilient, and Secure Platform for Smart Grid Communications
Jul 2012
Smart Grid applications are imposing challenging requirements of security and reliability on the N-way communication infrastructure being designed to support multiple grid applications. These...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Network-Aware Mitigation of Data Integrity Attacks on Power System State Estimation
Jul 2012
Critical power system applications like contingency analysis and optimal power flow calculation rely on the power system state estimator. Hence the security of the state estimator is essential for...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Cryptoviral Extortion: A virus based approach
May 2013
As the authors know that traditionally, "Cryptography" is used for information processing and communications, it helps people to store information securely and it is used very frequently for...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
Spectral Flatness Measurements for Detection of C-Worms
Mar 2013
Active Worms such as Morris (1988), CodeRed (2001), Nimda (2001), Slammer worm (2003),Blaster (2003) and Witty (2004) had always caused large parts of the Internet to be temporarily inaccessible,...
Provided by IJCTT-International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
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Whitepapers
Enhancing Koyama Scheme Using Selective Encryption Technique in RSA-Based Singular Cubic Curve with AVK
May 2012
In this paper, the authors analyze application of Selective Encryption with Automatic Variable Key (AVK) for text based documents in Koyama Public Key Cryptosystem (PKC). In this paper, a new...
Provided by International Journal of Network Security
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Whitepapers
Differential Epidemic Model of Virus and Worms in Computer Network
May 2012
A differential electronic Susceptible-Infectious-Removed-Susceptible (e-SIRS) epidemic model of virus and worms in a computer network has been formulated. Latent period, immune period and time for...
Provided by International Journal of Network Security
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Whitepapers
Parallel Misuse and Anomaly Detection Model
May 2012
In this paper, a novel hybrid model is being proposed for misuse and anomaly detection. C4.5 based binary decision trees are used for misuse and CBA (Classification Based Association) based...
Provided by International Journal of Network Security
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Whitepapers
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Whitepapers
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
-
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
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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
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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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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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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Whitepapers
Malware Detection Using Data Mining Techniques
Jun 2012
Anti-virus systems traditionally use signatures to detect malicious executables, but signatures are over fitted features that are of little use in machine learning. Other methods seek to utilize...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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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
