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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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White Papers
The Vertical Risk: Web-Delivered Malware Impact by Industry
Oct 2008
The type and frequency of Web-delivered malware changed dramatically in 2008. Chief among the causative factors was the marriage of profit-motivated attackers to automated tools that streamline...
Provided by ScanSafe
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White Papers
Web 2.0 - The New Generation of Web Threats
Jun 2008
Unfortunately, malicious software (malware) has also evolved. Just as technology has been replaced by users as the driving force behind websites, the computer is no longer the ultimate target of...
Provided by ScanSafe
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White Papers
Stealthy Video Capturer: A New Video-Based Spyware in 3G Smartphones
Mar 2009
This paper investigates video-based vulnerabilities in 3G Smartphones. Particularly, it designed a new video-based spyware, called Stealthy Video Capturer (SVC). SVC can secretly record video...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Case Studies
Richmond Ambulance Authority Turns to Webroot to Protect Mobile Devices
Mar 2009
Richmond Ambulance Authority (RAA) provides Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to more than 200,000 people across Richmond, Va., making it one of the busiest per-capita systems in the nation. RAA...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Case Studies
Texas' Largest Undergraduate Institution Finds e-Mail Security With Webroot SaaS
Sep 2008
With seven colleges that have served more than 1.5 million students since 1965, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) is the largest undergraduate institution in the state of Texas. The...
Provided by Webroot Software
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Case Studies
Purdue University Protects 25,000 Systems in Highly Distributed Environment With McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
Apr 2009
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the flagship university of the five campuses within the Purdue University System, and one of the largest university systems in the United...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Georgia Department of Human Resources Relies on McAfee to Protect Against Incoming Spam and Malware
Apr 2009
The Georgia Department of Human Resources is the state's largest agency with 19,000 employees in 159 counties. It provides health and social services to the state's citizens. It needed to manage...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Abtran Meets Its Clients' Increasing Security Requirements With McAfee Security Risk Management Solutions
Feb 2009
Abtran is a market leader in delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Its focus is on strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships with major corporate and government clients in domestic and...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint - Advanced Simplifies Security Risk Management at Ellis Hospital
Feb 2009
Ellis Hospital, based in Schenectady, New York, includes a 360-bed, full-service health care facility, a School of Nursing, a mental health clinic, the 40-bed Bellevue Women's Center, and three...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Wyeth Enlists McAfee to Protect Global IT Environment From Pervasive Threats
Mar 2009
Wyeth, headquartered in Madison, New Jersey, is one of the largest research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare-product companies in the world, dedicated to solving the world's most critical...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee Vulnerability Manager Remediates System Vulnerabilities and Mitigates Risks at CSU, Chico
Feb 2009
At California State University, Chico, (CSU, Chico), popularly known as "Chico State," the Information Security Office (ISEC) is tasked with protecting the university's more than 500 servers,...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee Total Protection Service Protects Chamber of Commerce PCs With Less Effort and Expense
Mar 2009
Located in East Texas, not far from the Louisiana border, the county of Nacogdoches (pronounced nack-a-doe-chus), is home of Stephen F. Austin State University, "Texas Forest Country," and just...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee Helps ARC Stay PCI-Compliant While Processing $80 Million 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
Citrix Systems Reduces Risk by Standardizing on McAfee 's Integrated Security Risk Management Platform
Feb 2009
Citrix Systems is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 215,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver applications of any kind...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee EPO 4.0 Minimizes Time Spent on Threat Protection at University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Feb 2009
University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC) is a division of University Health Care - a large healthcare network and medical training institution that consists of a number of hospitals,...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Editorial Preface: Special Issue on Intrusion and Malware Detection
Jul 2009
Welcome to the special issue of Intrusion and Malware detection. Detection of Intrusions and Malware remains a serious problem in the realm of computer and communications security. These include...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Case Studies
Stopping Spyware at the Border
Jan 2009
Keeping out the bad guys can be hard work, even when one has a dedicated IT team. This has certainly been the experience of Chris Christiansen of CeloNova BioSciences, Inc. Based in Georgia,...
Provided by Untangle
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White Papers
Considerations for Anti-Spyware Product Testing
Apr 2008
This paper outlines some of the considerations that should be taken into account when tests on anti-spyware products are conducted and reviewed. Tests conforming to the suggestions in this paper...
Provided by ANTI-SPYWARE COALITION
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White Papers
Anti-Spyware Coalition Risk Model Description
Nov 2007
The anti-spyware industry offers a robust selection of tools to consumers in the marketplace. As is to be expected in such an environment, the rating systems used to classify Spyware and other...
Provided by ANTI-SPYWARE COALITION
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White Papers
Anti-Spyware Coalition Definitions Document
Nov 2007
Spyware has quickly evolved from an online nuisance to one of the most direct threats facing the Internet. As users struggle to maintain control over their computers, many find themselves trapped...
Provided by ANTI-SPYWARE COALITION
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White Papers
Maximum Damage Malware Attack in Mobile Wireless Networks
Aug 2009
Malware attacks constitute a serious security risk that threatens to slow down the large scale proliferation of wireless applications. As a first step towards thwarting this security threat, one...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
Resource Guide: High Performance Workstations
Dec 2009
High performance workstations are specifically designed to meet the rising challenges of specialized applications for a growing number of industries including engineering, entertainment, finance,...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Resource Guide: Workstation Productivity
Dec 2009
Desktop computers have come a long way in terms of value and performance for the average user but many of today's more demanding applications require more advanced workstations with even more in...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cell Phone Malware
Jan 2009
The authors present recent research they have conducted to determine the simplicity of constructing malicious code for cell phones. The results are quite surprising, due to the straightforwardness...
Provided by University of Nebraska at Omaha
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White Papers
Malware Fuzzy Ontology for Semantic Web
Jul 2008
The term malware, in the area related to computer science, is used to define malicious code which is designed and written to execute attacks on software systems. In this paper, after a quick...
Provided by Iran Telecommunication Research Center
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Webcasts
Moving Beyond AV to Ensure Secure and Compliant Endpoints
Dec 2009
In today's Web 2.0 world, software is more distributed than ever before. Employees download a variety of Internet applications on a regular basis, with each new download altering system...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Comparing Antivirus Scanning Performance and System Resource Utilization
Jan 2010
IT system administrators need to balance the security requirements of the enterprise with usability of PCs. As the threat landscape evolves, PC security solutions have become resource hungry to...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
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White Papers
Defending Mobile Phones From Proximity Malware
Jan 2009
As mobile phones increasingly become the target of propagating malware, their use of direct pair-wise communication mechanisms, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, pose considerable challenges to malware...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Blue Coat Acceleration Edition ProxySG 9000
Jan 2009
As the foundation of Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network (ADN), Blue Coat ProxySG appliances accelerate and secure business applications for users across the distributed enterprise. ProxySG...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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White Papers
Three Ways to Seamlessly Prevent Insider Risk within your SCCM Environment
Jan 2010
With great advantages come great responsibilities. As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users' workday processes, they have also exposed organizations to three...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
May 2008
Like malware nomenclature and the alleged total reliance of anti-virus software on signature detection, detection performance testing of anti-malware programs, especially comparative testing,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Getting Ahead of Malware
Dec 2009
To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Using Spatio-Temporal Information in API Calls With Machine Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection
Nov 2009
Run-time monitoring of program execution behavior is widely used to discriminate between benign and malicious processes running on an end-host. Towards this end, most of the existing run-time...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Automatic Analysis of Malware Behavior Using Machine Learning
Dec 2009
Malicious software - so called malware - poses a major threat to the security of computer systems. The amount and diversity of its variants render classic security defenses ineffective, such that...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
Efficient Detection of Split Personalities in Malware
Dec 2009
Malware is the root cause of many security threats on the Internet. To cope with the thousands of new malware samples that are discovered every day, security companies and analysts rely on...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
The User Is Not the Enemy: Fighting Malware by Tracking User Intentions
Sep 2008
Current access control policies provide no mechanisms for incorporating user behavior in access control decisions, even though the way a user interacts with a program often indicates what the user...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Three Ways to Prevent USB Insecurity in Your Enterprise
Jan 2010
As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users' workday processes, they have also exposed their organizations to three enormous risks: data loss, data theft and...
Provided by Lumension
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Whitepapers
The drivers for web security in the cloud
Feb 2010
With cost-cutting a reality for the majority of organisations over the past couple of years, new delivery options such as software-as-a-service and cloud-based computing models can not only allow...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Whitepapers
What the ideal cloud-based web security service should provide
Feb 2010
The components required of an effective web security solution are many and varied, including a range of tools that guard against specific types of threats. This document provides an outline of the...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Case Studies
One of Nation's Most "Unwired" Campuses Blocks Malware for Wireless Users
Aug 2009
Trinity University wanted to reduce malware and virus infections and enforce security policies for wireless users. The challenge was to strengthen security without impeding academic freedom....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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LogMeIn Central.Aug 2010
Sit back at your command center and take control of your IT universe. From one powerful web-based console, you can deploy unlimited amounts of remote access software to computers you support, then...
Provided by LogMeIn
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White Papers
Eight threats your anti-virus won't stop: Why you need endpoint security
Jul 2010
News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data leakage are on the rise. High-profile incidents that make big news might seem out of the ordinary. Yet businesses of every size...
Provided by Sophos
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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
Against Spyware Using CAPTCHA in Graphical Password Scheme
Jan 2010
With the aim of introducing new schemes with graphical passwords, this paper proposes CAPTCHA that is a text-based scheme. Text-based password schemes are provided with in-built security and...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Malware Today and Mail Server Security
Jan 2008
The deal of this paper is to talk about highly effective mail server security with an aim to create awareness among all IT users. It discusses various threats that are included in the emails in...
Provided by Trend Micro
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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
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
pBMDS: A Behavior-Based Malware Detection System for Cellphone Devices
Mar 2010
Computing environments on cellphones, especially smartphones, are becoming more open and general-purpose, thus they also become attractive targets of malware. Cellphone malware not only causes...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Server-Side Detection of Malware Infection
Sep 2009
The paper reviews the intertwined problems of malware and online fraud, and argues that the fact that service providers often are financially responsible for fraud causes a relative lack of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Concurrent Architecture for Automated Malware Classification
Nov 2009
This paper introduces a new architecture for automating the generalization of program structure and the recognition of common patterns in the area of malware analysis. By using massively parallel...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Hitman Pro 3: Real-World Malware Statistics
Nov 2009
Hitman Pro 3 is a solution to counter malicious software such as viruses, spyware, Trojans, worms, adware, bots and rootkits, also known as malware (malicious software). Hitman Pro 3 catches more...
Provided by SurfRight
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Whitepapers
Malware and the Enterprise: Understanding the Potential Impact of a Trojan Infection
Apr 2010
The rise of malware in the enterprise creates many challenges and risks to security professionals. Trojans, in particular Zeus/Zbot, Limbo, Torpig/Mebroot/Sinowal and SilentBanker, are silently...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
On the Potential of Limitation-Oriented Malware Detection and Prevention Techniques on Mobile Phones
Jan 2010
The malware threat for mobile phones is expected to increase with the functionality enhancement of mobile phones. This threat is exacerbated with the surge in population of smart phones instilled...
Provided by Singapore Management University
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White Papers
Behavioral Clustering of HTTP-Based Malware and Signature Generation Using Malicious Network Traces
Feb 2010
This paper presents a novel network-level behavioral malware clustering system. The paper focuses on the analysis of structural similarities among malicious HTTP traffic traces generated by...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Malware: It's everywhere
Jul 2009
The proliferation of malware designed to infiltrate computer systems without the owners informed consent has become one of the most challenging security issues facing users today. But who owns...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Maintaining trust: protecting your website users from malware
Nov 2009
The proliferation of malware designed to infiltrate computer systems without the owners' informed consent has become one of the most challenging security issues facing users today. Hackers are...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Pay-Per-Install: The New Malware Distribution Network
Mar 2010
Malware authoring and distribution has become very profitable over the years. Earlier, malware was written mainly for fame and notoriety. However, it has now become a very profitable enterprise,...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
7 Engaging Tactics and 7 Essentials Tools for Virtual Classrooms
Aug 2009
In this recorded webinar, learn how to utilize virtual classrooms to deliver online training that is better than in-person training. Discover seven easy and interactive tactics you can implement...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Whitepapers
Increasing Performance in Enterprise Anti-Malware Software
Mar 2010
As the Internet continues to grow in scope and sophistication over time, so does the intelligence built into malicious software. Today's malware has evolved from its origins of viruses as a mostly...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
SpyWare: A Change-Aware Development Toolset
May 2008
The research is driven by the motivation that change must be put in the center, if one wants to understand the complex processes of software evolution. The paper built a toolset named SpyWare...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Automated Spyware Collection and Analysis
Aug 2009
Various online studies on the prevalence of spyware attest overwhelming numbers (up to 80%) of infected home computers. How-ever, the term spyware is ambiguous and can refer to anything from...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Guideline for Prevention of Spyware and Other Potentially Unwanted Software
Sep 2008
Most users are aware of the impact of virus/worm and therefore they have taken measures to protect their computers, e.g. using Anti-Virus program. However, spyware and other potentially unwanted...
Provided by Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT)
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White Papers
Optimal Quarantining of Wireless Malware Through Power Control
Feb 2009
The topic of malware propagation in mobile wireless networks is gaining momentum among the research community, as actual vulnerabilities are revealed through recent outbreaks of worms. The paper...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
Automatic Static Unpacking of Malware Binaries
Aug 2009
Current malware is often transmitted in packed or encrypted form to prevent examination by anti-virus software. To analyze new malware, researchers typically resort to dynamic code analysis...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
BotTracer: Execution-Based Bot-Like Malware Detection
Jun 2008
Bot-like malware has posed an immense threat to computer security. Bot detection is still a challenging task since bot developers are continuously adopting advanced techniques to make bots more...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
HIVE: An Open Infrastructure for Malware Collection and Analysis
Jul 2008
Honeynets have become an important tool for researchers and network operators. However, the lack of a unified honeynet data model has impeded their effectiveness, resulting in multiple unrelated...
Provided by University of Pavia
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White Papers
Optimal Malware Attack and Defense in Mobile Wireless Networks
Jan 2010
Malicious self-replicating codes, known as malware, pose substantial threat to the wireless computing infrastructure. Malware can be used to launch attacks that vary from the less intrusive...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
Graphs, Entropy and Grid Computing: Automatic Comparison of Malware
Oct 2008
Nowadays AV laboratories are saturated with huge collections of malware which are received daily. It's a fact that the industry needs better methods to automatically identify, analyse and classify...
Provided by Panda Security
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White Papers
Malware: Protecting and Eliminating the Emanate Threat
Jan 2009
The goal is to research and analyze the issues relating to malware, including how it infects computer and preventions that can be taken to reduce the risk of these forms of attacks. The paper will...
Provided by Oakland University
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White Papers
Emulating Emulation-Resistant Malware
Nov 2009
The authors of malware attempt to frustrate reverse engineering and analysis by creating programs that crash or otherwise behave differently when executed on an emulated platform than when...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Dynamic Malware Attack in Energy-Constrained Mobile Wireless Networks
Jan 2010
Large scale proliferation of wireless technologies are dependent on developing reliable security measures against outbreaks of malware. The first step toward this goal is investigating the...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
Smartphone Malware Evolution Revisited: Android Next Target?
Aug 2009
Smartphones started being targets for malware in June 2004 while malware count increased steadily until the introduction of a mandatory application signing mechanism for Symbian OS in 2006. From...
Provided by Technical University of Berlin
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White Papers
Detecting Energy-Greedy Anomalies and Mobile Malware Variants
Jun 2008
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the limited...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
An Information-Theoretic View of Network-Aware Malware Attacks
May 2009
This work provides an information-theoretic view to better understand the relationships between aggregated vulnerability information viewed by attackers and a class of randomized epidemic scanning...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Effective and Efficient Malware Detection at the End Host
Jun 2009
Malware is one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. In fact, most Internet problems such as spam e-mails and denial of service attacks have malware as their underlying...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Applications of Genetic Algorithms to Malware Detection and Creation
Dec 2009
This paper explores the application of genetic algorithms to a real-life issue, specifically malware. Malware, or "Malicious" software such as viruses, worms, Trojans, denial-of-service tools,...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Practical Proactive Integrity Preservation: A Basis for Malware Defense
Jan 2010
Unlike today's reactive approaches, information flow based approaches can provide positive assurances about overall system integrity, and hence can defend against sophisticated malware. However,...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
A Cryptographic Provenance Verification Approach for Host-Based Malware Detection
Apr 2009
This paper presents a malware detection approach by focusing on the characteristic behaviors of human users. The paper explores the human-malware differences and utilizes them to aid the detection...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
New Directions in Peer-to-Peer Malware
Apr 2008
Intruders are constantly changing, improving, and extending the capabilities of their malicious software (malware). Not only have their tools evolved from single-purpose programs run manually to...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Malware Fuzzy Ontology for Semantic Web
Jul 2008
The term malware, in the area related to computer science, is used to define malicious code which is designed and written to execute attacks on software systems. In this paper, after a quick...
Provided by Iran Telecommunication Research Center
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Webcasts
Moving Beyond AV to Ensure Secure and Compliant Endpoints
Dec 2009
In today's Web 2.0 world, software is more distributed than ever before. Employees download a variety of Internet applications on a regular basis, with each new download altering system...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Comparing Antivirus Scanning Performance and System Resource Utilization
Jan 2010
IT system administrators need to balance the security requirements of the enterprise with usability of PCs. As the threat landscape evolves, PC security solutions have become resource hungry to...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
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White Papers
Defending Mobile Phones From Proximity Malware
Jan 2009
As mobile phones increasingly become the target of propagating malware, their use of direct pair-wise communication mechanisms, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, pose considerable challenges to malware...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Antivirus Software and Disk Defragmentation
Feb 2005
Want to speed up your antivirus scans? After years of anecdotal data from Diskeeper customers about the reduction in virus-scan times attributed to defragmentation, Diskeeper Corporation decided...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Blue Coat Acceleration Edition ProxySG 9000
Jan 2009
As the foundation of Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network (ADN), Blue Coat ProxySG appliances accelerate and secure business applications for users across the distributed enterprise. ProxySG...
Provided by Blue Coat Systems
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White Papers
Three Ways to Seamlessly Prevent Insider Risk within your SCCM Environment
Jan 2010
With great advantages come great responsibilities. As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users' workday processes, they have also exposed organizations to three...
Provided by Lumension
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White Papers
Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
May 2008
Like malware nomenclature and the alleged total reliance of anti-virus software on signature detection, detection performance testing of anti-malware programs, especially comparative testing,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Getting Ahead of Malware
Dec 2009
To minimize the threat posed by malicious software, or malware, making its way into the enterprise, Intel IT has established a process that actively seeks to identify and take action against the...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Using Spatio-Temporal Information in API Calls With Machine Learning Algorithms for Malware Detection
Nov 2009
Run-time monitoring of program execution behavior is widely used to discriminate between benign and malicious processes running on an end-host. Towards this end, most of the existing run-time...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Automatic Analysis of Malware Behavior Using Machine Learning
Dec 2009
Malicious software - so called malware - poses a major threat to the security of computer systems. The amount and diversity of its variants render classic security defenses ineffective, such that...
Provided by University of Mannheim
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White Papers
Efficient Detection of Split Personalities in Malware
Dec 2009
Malware is the root cause of many security threats on the Internet. To cope with the thousands of new malware samples that are discovered every day, security companies and analysts rely on...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
The User Is Not the Enemy: Fighting Malware by Tracking User Intentions
Sep 2008
Current access control policies provide no mechanisms for incorporating user behavior in access control decisions, even though the way a user interacts with a program often indicates what the user...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Three Ways to Prevent USB Insecurity in Your Enterprise
Jan 2010
As the advances in USB devices have made them invaluable to most business users' workday processes, they have also exposed their organizations to three enormous risks: data loss, data theft and...
Provided by Lumension
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Whitepapers
The drivers for web security in the cloud
Feb 2010
With cost-cutting a reality for the majority of organisations over the past couple of years, new delivery options such as software-as-a-service and cloud-based computing models can not only allow...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Whitepapers
What the ideal cloud-based web security service should provide
Feb 2010
The components required of an effective web security solution are many and varied, including a range of tools that guard against specific types of threats. This document provides an outline of the...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Whitepapers
The benefits of a cloud-based service for web security
Feb 2010
The use of a web security service based in the cloud can be of great value to any organisation, from the smallest to the very large, and can also allow it to shave costs off the investment and to...
Provided by Bloor Research
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Forefront Client Security and the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (Level 200)
Feb 2010
The attendee of this webcast learns how Microsoft Forefront Client Security and Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) work together to provide industry-leading detection and response times...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Websense Security Labs State of Internet Security 2H09
Mar 2009
Do you know just how adept Web adversaries have become in using the Internet to spread malware in their attacks? Understand where the true threats lie with this report which summarizes the...
Provided by Websense
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Whitepapers
Why security is best served in the cloud
Mar 2010
With the web becoming the prime method of attack as other vectors are closed through security solutions, organisations are increasingly looking to beef up their security controls for web threats....
Provided by Webroot Software
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White Papers
Why Traditional Anti-Malware Solutions Are No Longer Enough
Oct 2009
Security used to be a straightforward matter. Email was the primary attack vector and simply installing an anti-virus product and exercising caution when opening attachments mitigated the majority...
Provided by AVG Technologies
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White Papers
Malware Detection Using Adaptive Data Compression
Oct 2008
A popular approach in current commercial anti-malware software detects malicious programs by searching in the code of programs for scan strings that are byte sequences indicative of malicious...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Scalable, Behavior-Based Malware Clustering
Dec 2008
Anti-malware companies receive thousands of malware samples every day. To process this large quantity, a number of automated analysis tools were developed. These tools execute a malicious program...
Provided by Vienna University of Technology
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White Papers
Ether: Malware Analysis Via Hardware Virtualization Extensions
Oct 2008
Malware has become the centerpiece of most security threats on the Internet. Malware analysis is an essential technology that extracts the runtime behavior of malware, and supplies signatures to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Opcodes as Predictor for Malware
Jan 2008
This paper discusses a detection mechanism for malicious code through statistical analysis of opcode distributions. A total of 67 malware executables were sampled statically disassembled and their...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
An Empirical Study of Malware Evolution
Dec 2008
The diversity, sophistication and availability of malicious software (malcode/malware) pose enormous challenges for securing networks and end hosts from attacks. This paper analyzes a large corpus...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
Searching for Malware in BitTorrent
Apr 2008
One of the most widely publicized aspects of computer security has been the presence and propagation of malware. Malware has adapted to many different changing technologies, including...
Provided by University of Iowa
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White Papers
New Directions in Peer-to-Peer Malware
Apr 2008
Intruders are constantly changing, improving, and extending the capabilities of their malicious software (malware). Not only have their tools evolved from single-purpose programs run manually to...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
A Cryptographic Provenance Verification Approach for Host-Based Malware Detection
Apr 2009
This paper presents a malware detection approach by focusing on the characteristic behaviors of human users. The paper explores the human-malware differences and utilizes them to aid the detection...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Practical Proactive Integrity Preservation: A Basis for Malware Defense
Jan 2010
Unlike today's reactive approaches, information flow based approaches can provide positive assurances about overall system integrity, and hence can defend against sophisticated malware. However,...
Provided by Stony Brook University
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White Papers
Applications of Genetic Algorithms to Malware Detection and Creation
Dec 2009
This paper explores the application of genetic algorithms to a real-life issue, specifically malware. Malware, or "Malicious" software such as viruses, worms, Trojans, denial-of-service tools,...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Effective and Efficient Malware Detection at the End Host
Jun 2009
Malware is one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. In fact, most Internet problems such as spam e-mails and denial of service attacks have malware as their underlying...
Provided by USENIX Association
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An Information-Theoretic View of Network-Aware Malware Attacks
May 2009
This work provides an information-theoretic view to better understand the relationships between aggregated vulnerability information viewed by attackers and a class of randomized epidemic scanning...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Detecting Energy-Greedy Anomalies and Mobile Malware Variants
Jun 2008
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the limited...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Smartphone Malware Evolution Revisited: Android Next Target?
Aug 2009
Smartphones started being targets for malware in June 2004 while malware count increased steadily until the introduction of a mandatory application signing mechanism for Symbian OS in 2006. From...
Provided by Technical University of Berlin
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Dynamic Malware Attack in Energy-Constrained Mobile Wireless Networks
Jan 2010
Large scale proliferation of wireless technologies are dependent on developing reliable security measures against outbreaks of malware. The first step toward this goal is investigating the...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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Emulating Emulation-Resistant Malware
Nov 2009
The authors of malware attempt to frustrate reverse engineering and analysis by creating programs that crash or otherwise behave differently when executed on an emulated platform than when...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Malware: Protecting and Eliminating the Emanate Threat
Jan 2009
The goal is to research and analyze the issues relating to malware, including how it infects computer and preventions that can be taken to reduce the risk of these forms of attacks. The paper will...
Provided by Oakland University
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Graphs, Entropy and Grid Computing: Automatic Comparison of Malware
Oct 2008
Nowadays AV laboratories are saturated with huge collections of malware which are received daily. It's a fact that the industry needs better methods to automatically identify, analyse and classify...
Provided by Panda Security
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Optimal Malware Attack and Defense in Mobile Wireless Networks
Jan 2010
Malicious self-replicating codes, known as malware, pose substantial threat to the wireless computing infrastructure. Malware can be used to launch attacks that vary from the less intrusive...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
