All Entries Tagged With: "malware"
2009 Breaches and Blunders
Kevin Prince, CTO of Perimeter eSecurity recently released a paper on the top 2009 breaches and blunders. See the full article here. There is also lots of talk about it on Twitter. See here.
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Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009
MILFORD, Conn., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Perimeter [...]
Objectional Sites = Malicious Content
Website with “objectionable content” (e.g. sex, adult content, gambling, drugs) are often times infected with malicious software and links to sites that attempt to exploit end users systems. According to Websense,
50 percent of web pages linked to web sites categorized as “sex” also served malicious content.
69 percent of all web pages with [...]
Blogs littered with malware
According to Websense Security Labs in their “State of the Internet” report, 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and messaage boards are spam or malicious.
Most of the Top 100 Websites have hosted malicious content in the last 6 months
According to Websense more than half (61 percent) of the top 100 websites in the last 6 months have hosted malware (malicious software) or malicious hidden redirection links. These breaches of heavily used sites is the weapon of choice by cyber criminals.
77 Percent of websites with malware are legitimate sites
If a website has malicious software (malware) on it, there is a 77 percent chance that the site is a legitimate site that has been compromised according to Websense. In other words, when a cyber criminal injects malware on a website, nearly 4 our of 5 cases do it on a legitimate website. [...]
233 Percent Growth in Malware sites in the last 6 months
According to Websense Security Labs, there has been a 233 percent growth in the number of malicious web sites in the last six months. They also note a 671 percent growth during the last year.
Quaresso – Web Security Solution
I recently had the opportunity to review the web application security offering by Quaresso (www.quaresso.com). There is a flash presentation as well as a PDF that explains how the service works quite well.
Essentially the software controls the end user browser better forcing better security as well as removing any sensitive information such [...]
Sophos
For years I have been waiting for a “all-in-one” desktop security suite that includes things like anti-virus, anti-malware, intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, disk encryption, mobile device protection, and application protection. Well I think I may have found it with Sophos. I spoke to Richard Jacobs their CTO the other day and got [...]
Who is hacking your network?
I found a great article that I reposted here as I believe it has a lot of really good information…
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Are Russian, Chinese or America cybercriminals targeting your data? PC Plus goes in search of cybercrime’s dark heart.
New York, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Timbuktu – if a hacker is determined to empty your bank account, they can [...]
Exploitable IE6 Still Top Browser Used
in 2001, Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 6. 5 years later the released version 7 and just recently the released version 8. While there are now two newer FREE versions, as well as many other FREE products from other vendors, the majority of systems still use IE6. Some of the major milestones [...]