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White Papers
Why Should I Use Antivirus Software?
Jun 2006
Why should a person use antivirus software? The answer is really simple. To protect his or her own computer from damage, and to prevent the computer from being used to pass on infections to other...
Provided by Extreme Personal Finance.com
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White Papers
The Real Cost of Free Email
Jun 2010
Learn the risks associated with using the POP and free email systems and how a hosted Microsoft Exchange solution can provide guaranteed availability and make email users in even the smallest...
Provided by Verio
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White Papers
Social Networking: The Pros, the Cons and the Solution
Jun 2010
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Bebo have permeated society and the workplace over recent years. Organizations are right to embrace these sites as an extra weapon...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
Executive Guide to Internal Data Theft
Jun 2010
This whitepaper looks at an inescapable trend - the increasing threat of confidential data being removed from the network inside the organization through the use of removable media devices. It...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
Are Bots About to Bring Down Your Business?
Jun 2010
There's some good news these days on the IT security front: Cybercriminals don't want to knock your network offline. The bad news? They want to use it for launching attacks that are more...
Provided by M86 Security
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White Papers
M86 - Are Proxy Anonymizers Putting Your Enterprise in Peril?
Jun 2010
Chances are, your company deploys Web filters to fight off the threats lurking in cyberspace. And chances are, some of your employees have no trouble bypassing them. This whitepaper looks at how...
Provided by M86 Security
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Case Studies
Avg and Watchguard Partnership to Deliver a No-Compromise Gateway Anti-Virus Solution
Jan 2010
In computer systems worldwide, viruses and other forms of malware are among the leading causes of lost data, corrupted PCs, damaged applications, and loss of productivity. WatchGuard Technologies...
Provided by AVG Technologies
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Case Studies
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Protects Grupa Remontowa SA
Jan 2010
A leader among European ship repair yards, Grupa Remontowa SA is a capital group concentrated around Gdansk Shipyard. Grupa is a major player on the world market which specializes in ship repairs...
Provided by Kaspersky Lab
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Case Studies
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Safeguards Dutch Automobile Sales
Jan 2010
It was becoming difficult for Van Tilburg-Bastianen to find an antivirus solution that offered high detection rates, protection from spyware, as well as central administrative tools at no...
Provided by Kaspersky Lab
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Case Studies
I've Been Infected By An Auto-Dialer Virus
Jan 2010
Defending the Net receives hundreds of e-mails every day in relation to computer safety issues. This case study focuses on the Auto-Dialer virus and describes how defending the Net received an...
Provided by Defending The Net
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White Papers
Antivirus for Branch SRX Series and J Series
May 2010
An Anti-Virus is an established part of any Unified Threat Management (UTM) suite and has been available on firewalls for many years. Although the introduction of Web 2.0 has created new security...
Provided by Juniper Networks
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Downloads
Antivirus Software- VIPRE Enterprise Antivirus Download a Free Trial
Aug 2010
VIPRE Enterprise Premium combines high-performance antivirus, antispyware, and a client firewall into a single agent so you get comprehensive endpoint malware protection with low system resource...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
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White Papers
Using a Gateway Antivirus to Guard the Enterprise Protocol Spectrum
Jan 2010
Internet is omnipresent. It has shrunk the world and has been tremendously beneficial. However, on the flip side, this shrunken virtual world is not free of threats. New blended threats have...
Provided by Elitecore Technologies
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Case Studies
TeliaSonera AB Strengthens Anti-Virus Security Confidence With McAfee
Feb 2009
The largest telecommunications provider in Sweden and Finland, offering mobile and fixed network services to the Nordic and Baltic countries. The company was facing the problems like Computer...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Scania AB Strengthens Anti-Virus Protection for the Long Haul With McAfee
Feb 2009
Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. The company wanted to continue to keep the company's...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
The Nocebo Effect on the Web: An Analysis of Fake Anti-Virus Distribution
Apr 2010
The authors present a study of Fake Anti-Virus attacks on the web. Fake AV software masquerades as a legitimate security product with the goal of deceiving victims into paying registration fees to...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Improved Anti-Virus Defense Via Efficient Clustering Techniques
Jun 2010
With the exponential growth in the Internet and its applications, threats and vulnerabilities have increased in similar proportions. The most common way of defense used by organizations for system...
Provided by Towson University
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Case Studies
Leading Trailer Transportation Provider Uses StandGuard Anti-Virus to Eliminate Viruses at the Point of Entry and StandGuard Network Security to Enforce Policies
Jan 2010
Trailer Transit runs its operations on a System i model 810 servers that runs the company's primary applications and its e-mail server. Intel-based IBM blade servers run two Active Directory...
Provided by Bytware
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Case Studies
SSA Goes on the Offensive Against Viruses
Jan 2010
Today, the growth in computer interconnectivity brings a heightened risk of disruption or sabotage of critical operations. It is comforting to know that, while there are some who still don't fully...
Provided by Bytware
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Case Studies
CGI Installs World's First Native Anti-Virus Solution for the iSeries
Jan 2010
CGI Group Inc., an international corporation for which data integrity is of highest priority, has fortified its security by installing the world's first and only server-based virus detection...
Provided by Bytware
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Case Studies
Manheim Protects ISeries Systems With StandGuard Anti-Virus
Jan 2010
Manheim, the world's leading provider of automotive services to commercial sellers and automobile dealers, has turned to StandGuard Anti-Virus, the world's first and only native anti-virus...
Provided by Bytware
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Case Studies
Reactive Fast-Track Rollout of Kaspersky Antivirus
Jun 2009
SME in the printing industry is a fast paced company which is heavily reliant on their IT Infrastructure for sales, marketing, production and office management. They have 25 desktop computers and...
Provided by IT ServiceLink
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Case Studies
Case Study: McAfee Antivirus Causes the Internet Explorer Window to Crash When Logging in to Access Gateway Enterprise Edition
Feb 2010
A customer had installed NetScaler appliance in the network. The users were logging in to the network through Access Gateway Enterprise Edition. The customer reported that some of the users had...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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Case Studies
The Trinity School for Ministry Fights the Good Fight With Webroot
Mar 2010
The Trinity School for Ministry is a graduate school of religion located in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, about 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh. As the use of laptops and the Internet became more...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Case Studies
Webroot Software Case Study: Access IT
Mar 2008
Access IT is an established IT service reseller and has a long and successful history within the IT industry. Access IT was interested in adding E-Mail Security SaaS that offered unparalleled...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Case Studies
School City of Hammond Closes Door on Students' Web Workarounds With McAfee
Feb 2009
Public school Corporation in Indiana with 2,500 employees at 21 locations serving 14,000 students School City of Hammond faced two major challenges: spam, and student work-around. They wanted to...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
The Doe Run Company Taps McAfee Total Protection for Data to Protect Intellectual Property
Mar 2009
A natural resource company focused on metals mining, smelting, recycling, and fabrication. The company wanted to protect highly confidential intellectual property worth billions of dollars. The...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Cardnet Gets End-to-End Protection From End-to-End McAfee Solutions
Dec 2009
Cardnet is a major provider of credit card transaction processing services and ATM transaction management. The company is based in the Dominican Republic. Cardnet was besieged with viruses that...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee Helps ARC Stay PCI-Compliant While Processing $80 Billion in Travel Expenditures Annually
May 2009
Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) provides financial services, data products and services, ticket distribution, original travel solutions, and settlement services to the travel industry. To...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Scottrade and McAfee Partner to Provide Security for Customer Data
Mar 2009
Scottrade, a leading branch-supported online investment firm, uses a complete suite of McAfee security risk management solutions to safeguard customer data. The company wanted to overhaul its...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Community South Bank Protects Endpoints, Data, and Network With Minimal IT Resources Using McAfee Total Protection for Secure Business
Oct 2009
Community South Bank is a fast-growing community bank headquartered in Parsons, Tennessee. The Bank knew it needed more than endpoint protection but had limited IT resources to manage a wide range...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Unmasking FAKEAV
Jun 2010
This white paper aims to educate companies' IT department staff on how rogue antivirus or FAKEAV applications arrive on systems. It aims to arm them with the right Trend Micro solutions that can...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Expanded AV Product Testing to Include Blocking by Source Reputation
Mar 2010
An expanded method for testing AV products is described and demonstrated. The proposed method expands AV product protection scoring from malware file detection rates to include credit for blocking...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
The Business of Cybercrime: A Complex Business Model
Mar 2010
As online crime has grown more prevalent, consumer confidence has plummeted. Unlike the old days when hackers created viruses to be mischievous, modern-day malware authors create threats primarily...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Whitepapers
An Introduction to Computer Viruses (and Other Destructive Programs)
Jan 2010
A virus is a computer program that executes when an infected program is executed. Therefore only executable files can be infected. On MS-DOS systems, these files usually have the extensions .EXE,...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Microsoft Office 2000 and Security Against Macro Viruses
Jan 2010
This white paper discusses the new macro security features in Microsoft Office 2000. The first half of the paper provides information about the new features. The second half answers questions...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Symantec Case Study: Noel Leeming Group Limited
Apr 2010
With over 90 retail stores across New Zealand, Noel Leeming Group's success is built on its technology expertise and superior customer service. They wanted centralized IT team servicing...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Detection of Bot Infected PCs Using Destination-Based IP and Domain Whitelists During a Non-Operating Term
Oct 2008
Spam e-mails and Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks have now become critical issues to the Internet. These attacks are considered to be sent from bot infected PCs. As a bot communicates...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
W32.Stuxnet Dossier
Oct 2010
W32.Stuxnet has gained a lot of attention from researchers and media recently. There is good reason for this. Stuxnet is one of the most complex threats the author have analyzed. In this paper the...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Prevention a Proactive Approach to Network Security
Sep 2007
Although most organizations set up protective technologies such as firewalls, anti-virus software, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), attacks still manage to penetrate their lines of defense....
Provided by VeriSign
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White Papers
Using application control to reduce risk with endpoint security
Jun 2011
Unwanted applications, like games, result in productivity loss. This is often the primary consideration when applying application control. But unauthorized applications also increase your...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
GPU-Assisted Malware
Sep 2010
Malware writers constantly seek new methods to obfuscate their code so as to evade detection by virus scanners. Two code-armoring techniques that pose significant challenges to existing...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Synthesizing Near-Optimal Malware Specifications From Suspicious Behaviors
Apr 2010
Fueled by an emerging underground economy, malware authors are exploiting vulnerabilities at an alarming rate. To make matters worse, obfuscation tools are commonly available, and much of the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
NetGator: Malware Detection Through Program Interactive Proofs
Jun 2011
Exfiltration of data using internet-borne attacks has become a credible threat for organization and enterprises. History has shown that crafted targeted attacks and zero-day malware are capable of...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
VirusPKT: A Search Tool for Assimilating Assorted Acquaintance for Viruses
Nov 2009
Viruses utilize various means to circumvent the immune detection in the biological systems. Several mathematical models have been investigated for the description of viral dynamics in the...
Provided by Pondicherry University
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White Papers
Evolution of Computer Virus Concealment and Anti-Virus Techniques: A Short Survey
Jan 2011
This paper presents a general overview on evolution of concealment methods in computer viruses and defensive techniques employed by anti-virus products. In order to stay far from the anti-virus...
Provided by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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White Papers
Can You Infect Me Now? Malware Propagation in Mobile Phone Networks
Nov 2007
In this paper the authors evaluate the effects of malware propagating using communication services in mobile phone networks. Although self-propagating malware is well understood in the Internet,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Multi-Factor Approach to Securing Software on Client Computing Platforms
Sep 2010
Protecting the integrity of software platforms, especially in unmanaged consumer computing systems is a difficult problem. Attackers may attempt to execute buffer overflow attacks to gain access...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Detecting Worms Via Mining Dynamic Program Execution
Oct 2008
Worm attacks have been major security threats to the Internet. Detecting worms, especially new, unseen worms, is still a challenging problem. In this paper, the authors propose a new worm...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
Malicious Hubs: Detecting Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems
Jan 2011
While many attacks are distributed across botnets, investigators and network operators have recently targeted malicious networks through high profile Autonomous System (AS) de-peerings and network...
Provided by Indiana University
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Case Studies
Rapid Growth Compels Leading Antivirus Software Company to Identify and Streamline Operating Efficiencies
Oct 2009
Kaspersky Lab is the most popular in Russia company providing in anti-virus solutions. In order to keep up with the fast growth, it was necessary to revise the overall organization structure. The...
Provided by LUXOFT
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White Papers
Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems
Nov 2008
Securing access to files is an important and growing concern in corporate environments. Employees are increasingly accessing files from untrusted devices, including personal home computers and...
Provided by Rutgers University
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Webcasts
Defeating the Cyber Mutants: Protecting Your Business from Modern Malware
Apr 2011
Modern malware rarely strikes the same way twice. Today's malicious code rapidly mutates, bypassing traditional defences. This webcast will examine these threats and the new technology that...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Customer Success Story: The Battery Source
May 2011
The Battery Source has used Symantec security solutions for more than 10 years. Two-thirds of email is now blocked as spam, saving users 30 to 60 minutes a day. Read this customer success story to...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Poster: Practical Trusted Computing for MHealth Sensing
May 2011
Mobile sensing technologies present exciting opportunities for healthcare. Wireless sensors can automatically provide sensor data to care providers, dramatically improving their ability to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Exploiting Temporal Complex Network Metrics in Mobile Malware Containment
Dec 2010
Malicious mobile phone worms spread between devices via short-range Bluetooth contacts, similar to the propagation of human and other biological viruses. Recent work has employed models from...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
New Multi-Step Worm Attack Model
Jan 2010
The traditional worms such as Blaster, Code Red, Slammer and Sasser, are still infecting vulnerable machines on the internet. They will remain as significant threats due to their fast spreading...
Provided by Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
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White Papers
Pricing and Investments in Internet Security A Cyber-Insurance Perspective
Mar 2011
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, spams, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
The philosophy of security
Apr 2011
Many books have been written about security in regards to technology such as how to secure your networking equipment, how to test for vulnerabilities in technologies, how to deploy patches across...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
A Schematic Representation of User Model Transfer for Email Virus Detection
Apr 2010
Systems for learning to detect anomalous email behavior, such as worms and viruses, tend to build either per user models or a single global model. Global models leverage a larger training corpus...
Provided by GITAM UNIVERSITY
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White Papers
User-Behavior Based Detection of Infection Onset
Oct 2010
A major vector of computer infection is through exploiting software or design flaws in networked applications such as the browser. Malicious code can be fetched and executed on a victim's machine...
Provided by Virginia Tech
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White Papers
Analyzing Self-Defense Investments in Internet Security Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Mar 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet user...
Provided by University of Southern California
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Webcasts
The Rise of the Machines: Defending Your Company Against Botnets
Feb 2011
The goal of modern malware is to silently compromise PCs, recruit them to be part of a botnet controlled by malicious attackers, and use them to steal information. Listen to this informative...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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White Papers
Retrofitting Security in COTS Software With Binary Rewriting
Jan 2011
The authors present a practical tool for inserting security features against low-level software attacks into third-party, proprietary or otherwise binary-only software. They are motivated by the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
API Attacks
Feb 2008
Interfaces get richer, and dirtier, and nastier, over time. Interface design flaws are widespread, from the world of cryptoprocessors through sundry embedded systems right through to antivirus...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Encouraging Information Security Behaviors in Organizations: Role of Penalties, Pressures and Perceived Effectiveness
Feb 2009
Secure management of information systems is crucially important in information intensive organizations. Although most organizations have long been using security technologies, it is well known...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Exact Modeling of Propagation for Permutation-Scanning Worms
Jan 2008
Modeling worm propagation has been an important research subject in the Internet-worm research community. An accurate analytical propagation model allows studying the spreading speed and traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On the Appropriateness of Evolutionary Rule Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Are Evolutionary Rule Learning Algorithms Appropriate for Malware Detection?
Jun 2009
In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
ROMA-Miner: A Data Mining Framework for Malware Detection Using Byte-Level File Content
Apr 2009
Commercial-off-the-shelf antivirus software are unable to successfully protect against increasingly sophisticated malware specially on the day of launch known as "Zero Day" malware detection. In...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Malware Detection Using Statistical Analysis of Byte-Level File Content
Jun 2009
Commercial anti-virus software are unable to provide protection against newly launched (a.k.a "Zero-Day") malware. In this paper, the authors propose a novel malware detection technique which is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Noisy Defenses: Subverting Malware's OODA Loop
May 2008
Modern malware attempts to systematically thwart the hoped-for entropy reduction of the defense. The implementation characteristics of this design philosophy include generation of functionally...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A SelfLearning AV Scanner
Nov 2008
The nonzero "Response Time" of AV technologies offers a lacuna for hackers to exploit. By the time an AV company responds with a signature to detect a malicious sample, a hacker may release...
Provided by University of Louisiana
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White Papers
Vilo: A Shield in the Malware Variation Battle
Jul 2007
The number of variants in malware families appears to be on the rise and is turning into a veritable flood. New defences must be found to detect these variants and curtail the flood. The authors...
Provided by University of Louisiana
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White Papers
An Overview of Electronic Attacks
Nov 2007
This paper gives an overview of the major types of electronic attacks encountered today and likely to continue into the foreseeable future. A comprehensive understanding of attackers, their...
Provided by Idea Group
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White Papers
Network Worms
Nov 2007
Internet users are currently plagued by an assortment of malicious software (malware). The Internet provides not only connectivity for network services such as e-mail and Web browsing, but also an...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Malicious Software in Mobile Devices
Nov 2007
This chapter examines the scope of malicious software (malware) threats to mobile devices. The stakes for the wireless industry are high. While malware is rampant among 1 billion PCs,...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Malicious Software
Jun 2007
Malicious software (malware) allows an intruder to take over or damage a target host without the owner's consent and often without his or her knowledge. Over the past thirty years, malware has...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
An Analysis of Rogue AV Campaigns
Jun 2010
Rogue antivirus software has recently received extensive attention, justified by the diffusion and efficacy of its propagation. The authors present a longitudinal analysis of the rogue antivirus...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Posture of an End Point
Oct 2007
The security of the network and its resources is one of the primary concerns for organizations these days. With the world getting increasingly mobile and a growing threat from malicious codes like...
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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Case Studies
McAfee Helps ARC Stay PCI-Compliant While Processing $80 Billion in Travel Expenditures Annually
May 2009
Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) provides financial services, data products and services, ticket distribution, original travel solutions, and settlement services to the travel industry. To...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Scottrade and McAfee Partner to Provide Security for Customer Data
Mar 2009
Scottrade, a leading branch-supported online investment firm, uses a complete suite of McAfee security risk management solutions to safeguard customer data. The company wanted to overhaul its...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Community South Bank Protects Endpoints, Data, and Network With Minimal IT Resources Using McAfee Total Protection for Secure Business
Oct 2009
Community South Bank is a fast-growing community bank headquartered in Parsons, Tennessee. The Bank knew it needed more than endpoint protection but had limited IT resources to manage a wide range...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Unmasking FAKEAV
Jun 2010
This white paper aims to educate companies' IT department staff on how rogue antivirus or FAKEAV applications arrive on systems. It aims to arm them with the right Trend Micro solutions that can...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Expanded AV Product Testing to Include Blocking by Source Reputation
Mar 2010
An expanded method for testing AV products is described and demonstrated. The proposed method expands AV product protection scoring from malware file detection rates to include credit for blocking...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
The Business of Cybercrime: A Complex Business Model
Mar 2010
As online crime has grown more prevalent, consumer confidence has plummeted. Unlike the old days when hackers created viruses to be mischievous, modern-day malware authors create threats primarily...
Provided by Trend Micro
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Whitepapers
An Introduction to Computer Viruses (and Other Destructive Programs)
Jan 2010
A virus is a computer program that executes when an infected program is executed. Therefore only executable files can be infected. On MS-DOS systems, these files usually have the extensions .EXE,...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Microsoft Office 2000 and Security Against Macro Viruses
Jan 2010
This white paper discusses the new macro security features in Microsoft Office 2000. The first half of the paper provides information about the new features. The second half answers questions...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Symantec Case Study: Noel Leeming Group Limited
Apr 2010
With over 90 retail stores across New Zealand, Noel Leeming Group's success is built on its technology expertise and superior customer service. They wanted centralized IT team servicing...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Detection of Bot Infected PCs Using Destination-Based IP and Domain Whitelists During a Non-Operating Term
Oct 2008
Spam e-mails and Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks have now become critical issues to the Internet. These attacks are considered to be sent from bot infected PCs. As a bot communicates...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
W32.Stuxnet Dossier
Oct 2010
W32.Stuxnet has gained a lot of attention from researchers and media recently. There is good reason for this. Stuxnet is one of the most complex threats the author have analyzed. In this paper the...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Intrusion Prevention a Proactive Approach to Network Security
Sep 2007
Although most organizations set up protective technologies such as firewalls, anti-virus software, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), attacks still manage to penetrate their lines of defense....
Provided by VeriSign
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Whitepapers
A Randomized Defence of Virus Throttling
Oct 2008
This paper gives a simple example of a defence against a worm attack which is a randomized combination of pure strategies, and which is superior to all of the pure strategies that it combines....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
7 Tips and 2 Models: Find a MSSP that Fits Your Business
Nov 2010
Tune in with John Ramsey and hear about 2 models for handling network security and 7 tips on choosing a managed security services provider. You'll learn the benefits of working with an MSSP, and...
Provided by Megapath
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Whitepapers
Why Customers Love VIPRE Business
Jan 2011
Selecting an antivirus solution for your organization is an important decision. Read the results of a survey focused on enterprise antivirus users and discover why customers love VIPRE Antivirus...
Provided by GFI Software
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Webcasts
Protecting Your Network from Rogue Security Software
Jan 2011
In this webinar, Chris Boyd, GFI Software's Senior Threat Researcher will provide an in-depth look into rogue antivirus. He will detail the damage it can cause, including an exclusive look behind...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks
Jun 2007
Given a water distribution network, where should one place sensors to quickly detect contaminants? Or, which blogs should be read to avoid missing important stories? These seemingly different...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Exploiting an Antivirus Interface
Apr 2009
The author proposes a technique for defeating signature-based malware detectors by exploiting information disclosed by antivirus interfaces. This information is leveraged to reverse engineer...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
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White Papers
Posture of an End Point
Oct 2007
The security of the network and its resources is one of the primary concerns for organizations these days. With the world getting increasingly mobile and a growing threat from malicious codes like...
Provided by Helsinki University of Technology
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White Papers
An Analysis of Rogue AV Campaigns
Jun 2010
Rogue antivirus software has recently received extensive attention, justified by the diffusion and efficacy of its propagation. The authors present a longitudinal analysis of the rogue antivirus...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Malicious Software
Jun 2007
Malicious software (malware) allows an intruder to take over or damage a target host without the owner's consent and often without his or her knowledge. Over the past thirty years, malware has...
Provided by IGI Global
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White Papers
Malicious Software in Mobile Devices
Nov 2007
This chapter examines the scope of malicious software (malware) threats to mobile devices. The stakes for the wireless industry are high. While malware is rampant among 1 billion PCs,...
Provided by IGI Global
-
White Papers
Network Worms
Nov 2007
Internet users are currently plagued by an assortment of malicious software (malware). The Internet provides not only connectivity for network services such as e-mail and Web browsing, but also an...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
An Overview of Electronic Attacks
Nov 2007
This paper gives an overview of the major types of electronic attacks encountered today and likely to continue into the foreseeable future. A comprehensive understanding of attackers, their...
Provided by Idea Group
-
White Papers
Vilo: A Shield in the Malware Variation Battle
Jul 2007
The number of variants in malware families appears to be on the rise and is turning into a veritable flood. New defences must be found to detect these variants and curtail the flood. The authors...
Provided by University of Louisiana
-
White Papers
A SelfLearning AV Scanner
Nov 2008
The nonzero "Response Time" of AV technologies offers a lacuna for hackers to exploit. By the time an AV company responds with a signature to detect a malicious sample, a hacker may release...
Provided by University of Louisiana
-
White Papers
Noisy Defenses: Subverting Malware's OODA Loop
May 2008
Modern malware attempts to systematically thwart the hoped-for entropy reduction of the defense. The implementation characteristics of this design philosophy include generation of functionally...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Malware Detection Using Statistical Analysis of Byte-Level File Content
Jun 2009
Commercial anti-virus software are unable to provide protection against newly launched (a.k.a "Zero-Day") malware. In this paper, the authors propose a novel malware detection technique which is...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
ROMA-Miner: A Data Mining Framework for Malware Detection Using Byte-Level File Content
Apr 2009
Commercial-off-the-shelf antivirus software are unable to successfully protect against increasingly sophisticated malware specially on the day of launch known as "Zero Day" malware detection. In...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Are Evolutionary Rule Learning Algorithms Appropriate for Malware Detection?
Jun 2009
In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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On the Appropriateness of Evolutionary Rule Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Exact Modeling of Propagation for Permutation-Scanning Worms
Jan 2008
Modeling worm propagation has been an important research subject in the Internet-worm research community. An accurate analytical propagation model allows studying the spreading speed and traffic...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Encouraging Information Security Behaviors in Organizations: Role of Penalties, Pressures and Perceived Effectiveness
Feb 2009
Secure management of information systems is crucially important in information intensive organizations. Although most organizations have long been using security technologies, it is well known...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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API Attacks
Feb 2008
Interfaces get richer, and dirtier, and nastier, over time. Interface design flaws are widespread, from the world of cryptoprocessors through sundry embedded systems right through to antivirus...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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Retrofitting Security in COTS Software With Binary Rewriting
Jan 2011
The authors present a practical tool for inserting security features against low-level software attacks into third-party, proprietary or otherwise binary-only software. They are motivated by the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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Webcasts
The Rise of the Machines: Defending Your Company Against Botnets
Feb 2011
The goal of modern malware is to silently compromise PCs, recruit them to be part of a botnet controlled by malicious attackers, and use them to steal information. Listen to this informative...
Provided by Perimeter eSecurity
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Analyzing Self-Defense Investments in Internet Security Under Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Mar 2010
Internet users such as individuals and organizations are subject to different types of epidemic risks such as worms, viruses, and botnets. To reduce the probability of risk, an Internet user...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
User-Behavior Based Detection of Infection Onset
Oct 2010
A major vector of computer infection is through exploiting software or design flaws in networked applications such as the browser. Malicious code can be fetched and executed on a victim's machine...
Provided by Virginia Tech
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A Schematic Representation of User Model Transfer for Email Virus Detection
Apr 2010
Systems for learning to detect anomalous email behavior, such as worms and viruses, tend to build either per user models or a single global model. Global models leverage a larger training corpus...
Provided by GITAM UNIVERSITY
