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Introducing the New VMware Management Solution Portfolio
Check out this webcast to learn more about the New VMware Management Solution Portfolio.
Sponsored by VMware Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800
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Downloads
Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones
Nov 2011
With LogMeIn Rescue, you'll be able to instantly support more users on more of today's most popular platforms. From PCs to Macs to almost all smartphones, LogMeIn Rescue lets you offer complete...
Provided by LogMeIn
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White Papers
Is this pop-up rogue anti-malware?
Feb 2012
Preventing scareware scams from infecting your computer There are hundreds of rogue anti-malware products on the Internet that infect PCs rather than detect malware. Much of this scareware is...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
LogMeIn Central Free Trial
Oct 2010
Managing multiple computers and remote systems can seem like a never-ending battle. Now there's a way to win the war once and for all. With Central's web-based management console, you can: Keep...
Provided by LogMeIn
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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
Social Networking: Brave New World or Revolution from Hell? A look at the phenomenon of Social Networking and the implications for Businesses
Jan 2008
According to recent surveys, employee social networking is growing rapidly, on hot sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and more. Reactions among businesses vary widely, from outright bans on social...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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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
Five Tips to Reduce Risk from Modern Web Threats
Dec 2011
User education and awareness, preventive measures and a modern web security solution are all integral components of a comprehensive defense against today's web threats. This guide covers some...
Provided by Astaro
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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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Downloads
Manage more computers more efficiently with 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
Take control of your IT universe - remotely. 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
Cybercrime risk management helps protect the enterprise
Sep 2011
Organisations need solutions to help protect key business information, whether it's a USB drive full of company information or just being cautious. Today's enterprise needs tools to avoid...
Provided by HP
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White Papers
Misplaced Trust - RFID Tags as Malware Carriers
Jun 2008
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)is a technology that is becoming more and more prevalent as a means of identifying objects and carrying small amounts of data. With this increasing use, RFID...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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White Papers
Eight threats your antivirus won't stop: Why you need endpoint security
Oct 2011
News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data loss are on the rise. This paper outlines eight common threats that traditional antivirus alone won't stop, and explains how to...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Rethink Endpoint Security
Jun 2009
Watch this informative video on endpoint security solutions straight from Trend micro. Think your endpoints are secure? Think Again.
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Attack of the PDF Documents: How Adobe's PDF Format has become one of the top carriers of malware
Mar 2011
PDFs have become one of the most common methods for infecting systems with malware. The PDF standard now supports JavaScript, along with tighter connections into user systems from the Adobe Reader...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
Malware Security Report: Protecting Your Business, Customers, and the Bottom Line.
Jun 2010
Malware code is not easily detectable and may infect consumers' computers when they simply browse your web site. Protect your business and customers by understanding the threat from malware and...
Provided by VeriSign
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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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White Papers
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client Free Download
Jun 2009
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client is a software plug-in for popular email clients that deploys without modifying existing business processes and integrates seamlessly with the existing email...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Data Leak Assessment
Jun 2009
The Trend Micro Data Leak Assessment Practice, developed by Trend Micro-certified data leak prevention consultants, will provide you with a detailed, written analysis of your data leak risks. The...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Antivirus Product Comparison: A Real-World 'Does It Work' Test
Nov 2004
After an extensive internal test of nearly every antivirus product on the market for higher education, the author concluded that NOD32 is the best antivirus product on the market. Kaspkersky is...
Provided by Colby-Sawyer College
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White Papers
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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White Papers
Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011
Apr 2011
This guide features articles by industry experts, analysts and top executives on subjects including an outlook for the mobile enterprise, market projections and forecasts, real-world examples of...
Provided by Sybase Inc.
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White Papers
Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
Sep 2008
Learn why traditional antivirus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your company from malicious threats. Learn about the scope of the...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
The Dark Art of Spam
Dec 2008
The threat posed by unsolicited emails continues to evolve. Money laundering and malware delivery mean spam is no longer just an irritant and a time waster. The goals are now more destructive as...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Jun 2009
MessageLabs offers integrated web and email security services proven to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus protection,...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs Intelligence : 2009 security Predictions
Jun 2009
Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Securing Virtual Worlds Against Real Attacks: The Challenges of Online Game Development
Jul 2008
Most of the attacks that have been witnessed in real life will surface in virtual worlds unless the environment is built with security in mind. It needs to leverage knowledge and work together -...
Provided by McAfee
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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
CASCADIA LABS URL FILTERING AND WEB RESULTS
Jun 2009
More and more companies now rely on web security products to protect their most important business and network resources from explicit, violent and unwanted content. In many cases, these...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Toward Automatic Discovery of Malware Signature for Anti-Virus Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Security vendors are facing a serious problem of defeating the complexity of malwares. With the popularity and the variety of zero-day malware over the Internet, generating their signatures for...
Provided by Trend Micro
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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
Tangled Web: Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Apr 2008
The best-known example of an undercover threat is spyware, which first appeared around five years ago. Essentially, spyware is software that gets onto a computer's hard drive without the user's...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware
Aug 2008
This paper presents SpySaver - a novel anti-spyware approach that reduces the incentive to deploy spyware. The approach does not prevent spyware installations, nor does it recover from them....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
2008 Internet Security Outlook
Jan 2008
Malware is at an all-time high. The security industry is in an arms race with malware creators and distributors. If business or home computers were fortunate enough to have not been attacked...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
GuardedID
Jun 2009
Keyloggers are a serious security threat that can be extremely harmful to both businesses and consumers. Current mechanisms do not provide adequate protection to the user from these threats. It...
Provided by StrikeForce Technologies
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White Papers
Understanding and Teaching Heuristics
Apr 2009
This paper is designed to provide a basic understanding of what heuristics are and how they are used in the anti-malware industry. Topics covered include signature based detection, generic...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
Apr 2009
Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Testing Testing: Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
Apr 2009
Anti-malware software remains an essential defensive component for most enterprises, understandably anxious to get the right balance of affordability and effectiveness. Unfortunately, journalists,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
Jan 2009
While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures. DDoS...
Provided by Eset
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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
Is this pop-up rogue anti-malware?
Feb 2012
Preventing scareware scams from infecting your computer There are hundreds of rogue anti-malware products on the Internet that infect PCs rather than detect malware. Much of this scareware is...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
Archdiocese of New Orleans: A customer success story
Dec 2011
Archdiocese of New Orleans plays it safe. Sophos Astaro Security Gateway doubles bandwidth and reduces administration time tremendously.
Provided by Astaro
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White Papers
Eight threats your antivirus won't stop: Why you need endpoint security
Oct 2011
News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data loss are on the rise. This paper outlines eight common threats that traditional antivirus alone won't stop, and explains how to...
Provided by Sophos
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Webcasts
Lavasoft and the Antispyware Industry
Nov 2008
In this webcast, the speaker CEO Jason King offers a brief history of Lavasoft and its role in the antispyware industry, the growth of the company, the shift in the marketplace as well as details...
Provided by HELP NET SECURITY
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White Papers
Sharing Simplified - Consolidating Multiple File-sharing Technologies
Oct 2011
A primary reason for this dissatisfaction is that traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies are purchased and deployed to control business content, while most workers need to...
Provided by Box.net
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White Papers
Cybercrime risk management helps protect the enterprise
Sep 2011
Organisations need solutions to help protect key business information, whether it's a USB drive full of company information or just being cautious. Today's enterprise needs tools to avoid...
Provided by HP
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White Papers
Defeating spam in enterprise email
Sep 2011
Enterprises should expect the onslaught of spam to continue. Botnets aren't going away. Criminal syndicates won't abandon a profitable business. In 2011 and beyond, attacks will likely become more...
Provided by Proofpoint
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White Papers
Five Tips to Reduce Risk from Modern Web Threats
Dec 2011
User education and awareness, preventive measures and a modern web security solution are all integral components of a comprehensive defense against today's web threats. This guide covers some...
Provided by Astaro
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White Papers
Artificial Malware Immunization Based on Dynamically Assigned Sense of Self
Sep 2010
Computer malwares (e.g., botnets, rootkits and spyware) are one of the most serious threats to all computers and networks. Most malwares conduct their malicious actions via hijacking the control...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Malware Security Report: Protecting Your Business, Customers, and the Bottom Line.
Jun 2010
Malware code is not easily detectable and may infect consumers' computers when they simply browse your web site. Protect your business and customers by understanding the threat from malware and...
Provided by VeriSign
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Whitepapers - Video
Watch this 5-minute video to learn more about the benefits of VIPRE Antivirus Business
Jul 2011
Until now antivirus has been slow and hard to manage - but there is a fast and easy solution, VIPRE Antivirus Business! VIPRE Business offers - Fast endpoint protection - Easy deployment and...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
Using Low-Rate Flow Periodicities for Anomaly Detection: Extended
Aug 2009
As desktops and servers become more complicated, they employ an increasing amount of automatic, non-user initiated communication. Such communication can be good (OS updates, RSS feed readers, and...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
Cognitive Authentication Schemes for Unassisted Humans, Safe Against Spyware
Jan 2011
Can the authors secure user authentication against eavesdropping adversaries, relying on human cognitive functions alone, unassisted by any external computational device? To accomplish this goal,...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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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
Remotely Keyed Cryptographics Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) Untrusted Hardware - Extended Version
Jan 2011
Software that covertly monitors user actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and removing it. Such software may...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Consumer Motivations in Taking Action Against Spyware: An Empirical Investigation
Dec 2008
Proliferation of spyware offer new threats and challenges for the consumers and the online companies that endeavor to attract prospective consumers. Privacy concerns are expected to fuel the...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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White Papers
Empirical Study of Drive-By-Download Spyware
Dec 2007
The ability of spyware to circumvent common security practices, surreptitiously exporting confidential information to remote parties and illicitly consuming system resources, is a rising security...
Provided by Naval Postgraduate School
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White Papers
SpyShield: Preserving Privacy From Spy Add-ons
Jun 2007
Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users' privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing defense mechanisms,...
Provided by Indiana 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
Case Study on Social Engineering Techniques for Persuasion
Jun 2010
There are plenty of security software in market; each claiming the best, still the authors daily face problem of viruses and other malicious activities. If they know the basic working principal of...
Provided by BVM Engineering College
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White Papers
One-Time-Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
Sep 2009
To reduce the damage of phishing and spyware attacks, banks, governments, and other security-sensitive industries are deploying one-time password systems, where users have many passwords and use...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
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White Papers
Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011
Apr 2011
This guide features articles by industry experts, analysts and top executives on subjects including an outlook for the mobile enterprise, market projections and forecasts, real-world examples of...
Provided by Sybase Inc.
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White Papers
Attack of the PDF Documents: How Adobe's PDF Format has become one of the top carriers of malware
Mar 2011
PDFs have become one of the most common methods for infecting systems with malware. The PDF standard now supports JavaScript, along with tighter connections into user systems from the Adobe Reader...
Provided by Sophos
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White Papers
The Economics of Cybersecurity: Principles and Policy Options
Dec 2010
Economics puts the challenges facing cybersecurity into perspective better than a purely technical approach does. Systems often fail because the organizations that defend them do not bear the full...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
On Optimal AV System Strategies Against Obfuscated Malware
May 2009
Many Anti-Virus (AV) Systems are heterogeneous compositions of components, with each component specially tuned to work on a certain class of threat. Each component may have individually tunable...
Provided by University of Louisiana
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White Papers
Detecting and Identifying Malware: A New Signal Processing Goal
Sep 2006
The Internet is now an essential part of many people's daily lives, both at home and at work. Today, it reaches all countries of the world, nearly a billion people, and supports trillions of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
User-Assisted Host-Based Detection of Outbound Malware Traffic
Oct 2009
Conventional network security solutions are performed on network layer packets using statistical measures. These types of traffic analysis may not catch stealthy attacks carried out by today's...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Poster: CompareView - A Provenance Verification Framework for Detecting Rootkit-Based Malware
Apr 2009
Using rootkit mechanisms to hide malware presence is pervasive in today's computer attacks. This paper proposes the CompareView framework, a host-based solution to detect stealthy outbound traffic...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Knowing Where Your Input Is From: Kernel-Level Data-Provenance Verification
Apr 2010
This paper describes a cryptographic provenance verification approach for ensuring system properties and system-data integrity at kernel-level. Its two concrete applications are demonstrated in...
Provided by Virginia Tech
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White Papers
Gone Rogue: An Analysis of Rogue Security Software Campaigns
Nov 2009
In the past few years, Internet miscreants have developed a number of techniques to defraud and make a hefty profit out of their unsuspecting victims. A troubling, recent example of this trend is...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Automatic Generation of String Signatures for Malware Detection
Jun 2009
Scanning les for signatures is a proven technology, but exponential growth in unique malware programs has caused an explosion in signature database sizes. One solution to this problem is to use...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Large-Scale Malware Indexing Using Function-Call Graphs
Nov 2009
A major challenge of the Anti-Virus (AV) industry is how to effectively process the huge influx of malware samples they receive every day. One possible solution to this problem is to quickly...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluation of a Spyware Detection System Using Thin Client Computing
Nov 2010
In previous work, the authors introduced a bait injection system designed to delude and detect crimeware by forcing it to reveal itself during the exploitation of monitored information. Although...
Provided by Columbia University
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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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Case Studies
Leading Managed Services Provider Increases Profitability With Trend Micro SMB Solutions
Nov 2006
Intelligent Enterprise teaches other IT consulting firms how to rapidly ramp up a managed services business. Their technical recommendations include an exclusive endorsement of Trend Micro...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Transparent Detection of Computer Malware Using Virtualization
May 2010
In this paper, the author explores malware detection using a combination of virtualization- and storage-based intrusion detection techniques. By monitoring disk activity of a virtual machine and...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Studying Bluetooth Malware Propagation: The BlueBag Project
Apr 2007
Current Bluetooth worms pose relatively little danger compared to Internet scanning worms - but things might change soon. The authors' BlueBag project shows targeted attacks through Bluetooth...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Preliminary Investigation of Worm Infections in a Bluetooth Environment
Nov 2006
Over the past year, there have been several reports of malicious code exploiting vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol. While the research community has started to investigate a diverse set of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Cyberwar Threats: New Security Strategies for Governments
Nov 2010
Threats posed by cyberwar cannot be defended using the traditional all-or-nothing security that's aimed solely at keeping attackers out of the government enterprise. Learn why that's so, what's...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Managed Compliance: Streamlining Multiple Compliance Mandates with Visibility, Intelligence and Auto
Oct 2010
A perfect storm is brewing, with increasingly complex, persistent cyber threats and more numerous and prescriptive compliance mandates to protect against them. In this white paper, learn how to...
Provided by Tripwire
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Downloads
Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones
Nov 2011
With LogMeIn Rescue, you'll be able to instantly support more users on more of today's most popular platforms. From PCs to Macs to almost all smartphones, LogMeIn Rescue lets you offer complete...
Provided by LogMeIn
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White Papers
LogMeIn Central Free Trial
Oct 2010
Managing multiple computers and remote systems can seem like a never-ending battle. Now there's a way to win the war once and for all. With Central's web-based management console, you can: Keep...
Provided by LogMeIn
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White Papers
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Jun 2009
MessageLabs offers integrated web and email security services proven to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus protection,...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
MessageLabs Intelligence : 2009 security Predictions
Jun 2009
Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Securing Virtual Worlds Against Real Attacks: The Challenges of Online Game Development
Jul 2008
Most of the attacks that have been witnessed in real life will surface in virtual worlds unless the environment is built with security in mind. It needs to leverage knowledge and work together -...
Provided by McAfee
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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
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client Free Download
Jun 2009
Trend Micro Email Encryption Client is a software plug-in for popular email clients that deploys without modifying existing business processes and integrates seamlessly with the existing email...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Data Leak Assessment
Jun 2009
The Trend Micro Data Leak Assessment Practice, developed by Trend Micro-certified data leak prevention consultants, will provide you with a detailed, written analysis of your data leak risks. The...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Rethink Endpoint Security
Jun 2009
Watch this informative video on endpoint security solutions straight from Trend micro. Think your endpoints are secure? Think Again.
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
CASCADIA LABS URL FILTERING AND WEB RESULTS
Jun 2009
More and more companies now rely on web security products to protect their most important business and network resources from explicit, violent and unwanted content. In many cases, these...
Provided by Trend Micro
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White Papers
Toward Automatic Discovery of Malware Signature for Anti-Virus Cloud Computing
Feb 2009
Security vendors are facing a serious problem of defeating the complexity of malwares. With the popularity and the variety of zero-day malware over the Internet, generating their signatures for...
Provided by Trend Micro
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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
Tangled Web: Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
Apr 2008
The best-known example of an undercover threat is spyware, which first appeared around five years ago. Essentially, spyware is software that gets onto a computer's hard drive without the user's...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware
Aug 2008
This paper presents SpySaver - a novel anti-spyware approach that reduces the incentive to deploy spyware. The approach does not prevent spyware installations, nor does it recover from them....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
2008 Internet Security Outlook
Jan 2008
Malware is at an all-time high. The security industry is in an arms race with malware creators and distributors. If business or home computers were fortunate enough to have not been attacked...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
GuardedID
Jun 2009
Keyloggers are a serious security threat that can be extremely harmful to both businesses and consumers. Current mechanisms do not provide adequate protection to the user from these threats. It...
Provided by StrikeForce Technologies
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White Papers
Understanding and Teaching Heuristics
Apr 2009
This paper is designed to provide a basic understanding of what heuristics are and how they are used in the anti-malware industry. Topics covered include signature based detection, generic...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
From Fun to Profit: The Evolution of Malware
Apr 2009
Digital threats have evolved from a bizarre hobby for computer geeks into a huge source of profit for organized cyber-crime. From a technical point of view, malware has diversified to enable...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
Testing Testing: Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
Apr 2009
Anti-malware software remains an essential defensive component for most enterprises, understandably anxious to get the right balance of affordability and effectiveness. Unfortunately, journalists,...
Provided by Eset
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White Papers
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
Jan 2009
While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures. DDoS...
Provided by Eset
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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
F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0
Sep 2008
Today's Internet threat landscape is dominated by criminals. A few years ago, they were only just beginning to adopt the use of malicious software (malware). Since then, it has seen extraordinary...
Provided by F-Secure
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White Papers
Towards Automating Malware Classification and Characterization
Jan 2009
Spam has become a problem of global impact. Most spam messages are currently sent out by captured machines organized in bot networks, which are infected with malicious software and are therefore...
Provided by Seewald Solutions
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White Papers
Unraveling Web Malware
Sep 2008
Security researchers and IT administrators have recently witnessed a rapid rise in the use of Web-based blended threats-for example, dangerous (and potentially obfuscated) JavaScript and ActiveX...
Provided by FireEye
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White Papers
Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-Based Malware
Apr 2008
While the web provides information and services that enrich their lives in many ways, it has also become the primary vehicle for delivering malware. Once infected with web-based malware, an...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Impeding Malware Analysis Using Conditional Code Obfuscation
Dec 2007
Malware programs that incorporate trigger-based behavior initiate malicious activities based on conditions satisfied only by specific inputs. State-of-the-art malware analyzers discover code...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
Apr 2008
Web site operators, Internet users, and online service providers are besieged by a growing array of abuses and threats. Spam leads users to online scams and phishing Web pages, which...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Economics of Malware: Epidemic Risks Model, Network Externalities and Incentives
May 2009
Malicious softwares or malwares for short have become a major security threat. While originating in criminal behavior, their impact is also influenced by the decisions of legitimate end users....
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Evaluation of Malware Clustering Based on Its Dynamic Behaviour
Jan 2008
Malware detection is an important problem today. New malware appears every day and in order to be able to detect it, it is important to recognize families of existing malware. Data mining...
Provided by Australian Computer Society
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White Papers
On the Limits of Information Flow Techniques for Malware Analysis and Containment
Feb 2008
Taint-tracking is emerging as a general technique in software security to complement virtualization and static analysis. It has been applied for accurate detection of a wide range of attacks on...
Provided by Universita degli Studi di Milano
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White Papers
Network Monitoring Tool to Identify Malware Infected Computers
Aug 2006
These days most of the Organizational Networks are facing a critical problem. Lately there has been a lot of increase in Malwares such as worms, adwares, spywares etc., which get installed on the...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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White Papers
A Lightweight Hypervisor for Malware Analysis
May 2008
Malicious software is rampant on the Internet and is costing billions of dollars each year. Safe and thorough analysis of malware is key to protecting systems and cleaning those that have already...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
VIPRE Takes a Bite Out of Bloatware
Oct 2008
Hackers and rogue code writers will continue to ply their trade and create new, ever more efficient and pernicious viruses and blended malware threats. This will in turn, cause many of the...
Provided by GFI Software
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White Papers
The End of Antivirus as You Know It: A First Look at VIPRE Enterprise
Jan 2009
This paper describes the rapidly evolving malware landscape facing enterprises today, as well as the next-generation software that addresses today's malware in the most comprehensive, highly...
Provided by GFI Software, formerly Sunbelt Software
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White Papers
Protecting You From Today's Rapidly Evolving, Web-Borne Threats
Feb 2008
The challenge for personal and business computer users alike today is to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving array of viruses, spyware, phishing scams and other threats collectively referred to as...
Provided by AVG Technologies
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White Papers
AVG: Protecting Your Computer From Tomorrow's Threats Today
Apr 2009
Security used to be a straightforward matter. E-mail was the primary attack vector and simply installing an anti-virus product and exercising caution when opening attachments mitigated the...
Provided by AVG Technologies
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White Papers
Anti-Spyware: How to Prevent Spyware With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
Apr 2008
Cybercrime is booming and money is the driving force behind the growth of targeted attacks against corporate networks that steal business data that can be sold on to other criminals. Spyware has...
Provided by Finjan
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White Papers
2009 Threat Predictions: Slumping Economy Drives Malware Threats
Jan 2009
Malware is a business, and that business is thriving. Gone are the days of virus writing for notoriety. More than 90 percent of the malware written today consists of password-stealing Trojans and...
Provided by McAfee
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White Papers
Anchiva Network Threat Defence
Apr 2009
The RapidRx Labs is Anchiva's professional malware research team that focuses on virus, malicious threats, and security lapse research. Since starting research operations in 2005, Anchiva's...
Provided by Anchiva Systems
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White Papers
The Perils of Using the Wrong Approach to USB Flash Drive Security: Only Hardware Ensures That Data Stays in and Malware Stays Out
Jan 2008
A seemingly endless string of headlines trumpeting high-profile data breaches has helped to make organizations aware of the risk of data loss inherent in portable storage devices. In addition to...
Provided by IronKey
