Weekend Reading
New approaches to malware detection
The traditional signature-based method to detect viruses and other malware is increasingly seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at which attackers are churning out virus and spyware variants. All of which raises the question: What’s next?
The three security vendors that dominate the antivirus market today, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, say they have no intention of abandoning signature-based defense, which calls for identifying a specific malware sample to create a matching signature in order to detect and eradicate it.
Take a look HERE.
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Google rises at Yahoo's expense
Contrast those divergent fortunes with two years ago: The companies were pulling in about the same amount of revenue; they looked primed to battle for Internet domination; and the jury was still out on whether Google's largely unproven management had the chops to take on a seasoned pro like Semel. So what happened? While a wide range of factors from personnel decisions to luck played a role, most pundits think it came down to this:
Take a look HERE.
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Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception [ Full PDF]
The ultimate source on social engineering!
Download the 577-page, 5-meg PDF HERE.
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LOpht in Transition
Most of the '90s hacking group have emerged in legitimate roles.
Was their work ultimately boon or bane for security?
Take a look HERE.
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Vista betas will kill your data
Microsoft has let it be known that the behaviour of Windows Vista beta copies is about to change fairly substantially. From May 31, anybody using a beta copy of the OS will find that their machine reboots every two hours, and that intermediate access will be limited to base-level file retrieval. That means that you could lose data you're working on, and that your machine will be good only for reformatting.
This isn't as bad news as it seems. Users who had taken part in the Vista beta scheme - millions of people, in fact - were all given free copies of Vista Ultimate by the Vole as a 'thank you'.
We suspect that this is more likely to affect those individuals who were using copies of the Vista beta nicked from mates or from BitTorrent in a bid to avoid having to pay for the full thing. The quick phase out means that this is possibly the shortest post-release beta Windows has seen.
So, if you're running on a Vista beta, you'd better scramble and get your system running, or else face a hard time come June
Source : The Inquirer
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Cost of Data Leaks
A McAfee-commissioned report by the research firm Datamonitor says that 60 percent of respondents experienced a data leak last year.
Read the article HERE.
The traditional signature-based method to detect viruses and other malware is increasingly seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at which attackers are churning out virus and spyware variants. All of which raises the question: What’s next?
The three security vendors that dominate the antivirus market today, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, say they have no intention of abandoning signature-based defense, which calls for identifying a specific malware sample to create a matching signature in order to detect and eradicate it.
Take a look HERE.
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Google rises at Yahoo's expense
Contrast those divergent fortunes with two years ago: The companies were pulling in about the same amount of revenue; they looked primed to battle for Internet domination; and the jury was still out on whether Google's largely unproven management had the chops to take on a seasoned pro like Semel. So what happened? While a wide range of factors from personnel decisions to luck played a role, most pundits think it came down to this:
Take a look HERE.
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Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception [ Full PDF]
The ultimate source on social engineering!
Download the 577-page, 5-meg PDF HERE.
==================================================================
LOpht in Transition
Most of the '90s hacking group have emerged in legitimate roles.
Was their work ultimately boon or bane for security?
Take a look HERE.
==================================================================
Vista betas will kill your data
Microsoft has let it be known that the behaviour of Windows Vista beta copies is about to change fairly substantially. From May 31, anybody using a beta copy of the OS will find that their machine reboots every two hours, and that intermediate access will be limited to base-level file retrieval. That means that you could lose data you're working on, and that your machine will be good only for reformatting.
This isn't as bad news as it seems. Users who had taken part in the Vista beta scheme - millions of people, in fact - were all given free copies of Vista Ultimate by the Vole as a 'thank you'.
We suspect that this is more likely to affect those individuals who were using copies of the Vista beta nicked from mates or from BitTorrent in a bid to avoid having to pay for the full thing. The quick phase out means that this is possibly the shortest post-release beta Windows has seen.
So, if you're running on a Vista beta, you'd better scramble and get your system running, or else face a hard time come June
Source : The Inquirer
==================================================================
Cost of Data Leaks
A McAfee-commissioned report by the research firm Datamonitor says that 60 percent of respondents experienced a data leak last year.
Read the article HERE.
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