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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'Symantec'


Low-Tech Attacks on The Rise

Phishers are re-working old attacks and coming up with some variations on past attacks as they continue to try to scam social networking site users. This isn't new, but as Symantec points out, the attacks are on the rise....

Observe and Report: Sniffing out Conficker

SkullSecurity.org has posted a Conficker detection tool that sniffs out Conficker P2P communications, which backs up HTTP communications in the newer versions of the worm....

Celebrity Popularity and Spam

It's not surprising to hear Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain were popular topics for spammers last month, but they weren't the only celebrities making the spam rounds. Micheal Jackson, Heather Mills, and Indiana Jones are climbing in the...

Spam is Getting Worse but We Don't Know How Much Worse

A couple of studies have come out with different estimates on the rate of spam growth this year. Barracuda analyzed over a billion messages and found an 85-90% increase in spam; Symantec's measurements show a 56% increase. Not that the...

Busted Bot Herder and Estimating Bot Population

A teenage bot herder has been arrested in New Zealand who, according to CNN, was responsible for a 1 million node botnet. While the arrest is good news, another notable part of the story is the difficulty in estimating the...

Internet Security Threat Report Now Tracks Fortune 100

Symantec has released their twelfth Internet Security Threat Report for the first half of 2007 and for the first time they are tracking malicious activity originating in Fortune 100 companies. The report finds that although the Fortune 100 companies account...

Data Breaches, Monitoring and Microsoft Changing Security Vendor's Market

A few stories recently are indicating a shift in the center of gravity in the security market. First, there is Symante CEO's comments on Microsoft's downward pressure on the desktop security market. Then there is Monster.com's recent announcement that they'd...

Google Acquires Security Vendor Postini

Google understands that software as a service requires security as a service so they’ve put $625 million on the table to buy Postini. Enterprises aren’t going to move to Google Apps or any other software service unless they can trust...

Summary of Latest Spam News: Some Good, Some Bad

Quick note, a new article on application security metrics has just been posted at the community site. Ok, back to spam,spam and more spam. Reading security news is like watching the stock market: some days are good, some are bad...

Google Security: Acquires Anti-Malware, Stumbles on Vulnerability

Google continues to move further into the security market with the acquisition of Greenborder Technologies, maker of browser-based security tools. Greenborder’s products provide a sandbox for executing code from untrusted sources, From Infoworld: By running unknown code in such a...

Symantec-Veritas Merger Improves Anti-Malware

Radical improvements in anti-malware detection isn't going to come from marginal tweaks to existing algorithms and techniques. We need fundamental changes. The Symantec Veritas merger is showing how this can be done. By combining disk scanning techniques that can bypass...

Microsoft Profits Up, Security Market Up, Too

Money is being made all right, and not just at Microsoft. The security market news includes record profits and mergers, both positive signs, at least from a business perspective. Some, like Bruce Scheiener, are wondering why we should need security...

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