If you can believe it, 2013 is already halfway over. With summer here, businesses everywhere are feeling the heat in their IT organizations – as they fight a growing array of security concerns, threatening their profitability and reputation alike.
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Microsoft Hits Citadel Hard
Late last week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, working with the FBI and the U.S. courts, took a huge chunk out of the capabilities of the Citadel botnet. Citadel is a ZeuS variant that is responsible for infecting what is believed to be millions of computers across the globe in the hopes of stealing financial information through key logging and form grabbing and using that information to steal money from the bank accounts of infected victims.
Fast & Secure: Fortinet Enhances Security For Carriers and MSSPs
Fast & Secure: Fortinet Enhances Security For Carriers and MSSPs.
Google and the Zero-Day Conundrum
Last week Google announced a significant change to the way they disclose vulnerabilities. In cases where a zero-day vulnerability has made it into the wild and is being actively exploited, Google will now give a scant 7 days to the software vendor whose product is being exploited before ”…support(ing) researchers (by) making details available so that users can take steps to protect themselves.” We hope that the details Google will make available do not include full disclosu…
F-Secure: "We see things others don’t."
F-Secure’s 25 years have been rich in innovation. F-Secure established the world’s first computer security website, created the first real-time antivirus pro…
Preventing DDoS: What to Look for in a Security Solution
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, and they’re only getting stronger. This was driven home by The New York Times report on how anti-spam organization Spamhaus fell prey to one of the largest DDoS attacks in history. Few can forget the targeted DDoS assaults on global financial institutions JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, Regions Bank and American Express – attacks that crippled the businesses for hours and cost millions in lost business, rem…
New NSS Labs Report: IE’s Browser Security Bests Others
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 is the most secure web browser according to the results of a mid-May 2013 NSS Labs’ analysis. Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 25/26, Internet Explorer 10, Mozilla Foxfire 19 and Opera 12 were all evaluated against malware downloads and socially engineered malware. Results show that Chrome’s malware download protection improved significantly, up to more than 83 percent from a 70 percent performance in NSS’ October 2012 analysis, Browser C…