April 2007 Archives

Symantec, in their recent Internet Security Threat Report, has found that Denial of Service (DOS) attacks have declined against service providers by 15 percent. "The thing is that DoS attacks are loud and risky," Yazan Gable, security response engineer for... Read More..

As almost every industry now seems to be doing mash-ups of different technology, you can now include spammers and cybercriminals in that group. A recent report by MessageLabs stated that recent email messages touting stocks have also come to include... Read More..

Listen to or download the entire 10:03 podcast below: Download file What follows is a summary of my discussion with Mike Rothman, top analyst and founder of the website Security Incite, where we discuss the recent escalation of security attacks,... Read More..

Some months ago I wrote a blog about the critical steps a company can take to prevent against some of the easiest of Google hacks, which usually entails a hacker searching for private and privileged information that has leaked out... Read More..

In a welcome shift, Symantec today announced that they will begin the beta launch of the Symantec Protection Network, which is to provide affordable security to small and medium sized businesses. Symantec's first offering will be an Online Backup Service,... Read More..

According to an article at eweek.com, the new breed of cyberthieves know almost as much about how to track and trace a data breach or security slip as the experts do. And they are using this kind of knowledge to... Read More..

Listen to or download the entire 6:26 podcast below: Download file What follows is a summary of my discussion with Michael Katz, President and Founder of Message Partners, about the problems with spam, why it hits service providers the hardest,... Read More..

An article in Dark Reader details how Javascript has become one of the favorite tools of cybercriminals to both attack a computer and disguise the attack. While, to the naked eye, this form of attack is often hard to distinguish,... Read More..

Microsoft announced it plans to release a patch for a dangerous security vulnerability in its Windows operating system that cybercriminals are actively exploiting. This fix comes a week earlier than Microsoft's typical patch Tuesday. The company's break from standard operating... Read More..