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Defense in Depth: How Application Whitelisting Can Increase Your Desktop Security
sponsored by Faronics
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No single technology guarantees security, however application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or anti-virus utilities. This paper focuses on how application whitelisting can be effectively used as an important layer in your security scenario.
Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009
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Making Sense of Man-in-the-Browser: Strategies for Mitigating a Menacing Threat
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
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The increasing implementation of strong two-factor authentication has challenged fraudsters to develop new methods to target online users. One of the latest tactics fraudsters are employing is the use of Trojans to launch man-in-the-browser attacks. Read on to learn more about this type of attack and how to defend against it.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009
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Lawyer in the Lab: Dealing with the Legal Implications of Classifying Malware
sponsored by ESET
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This presentation by the Head of ESET's Virus Laboratory explores the complex legal problems generated by applications that can't be called out-and-out malware, but are nevertheless potentially unsafe or unwanted.
Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009
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The Name Game: Malware Naming, Shape Shifters, and Sympathetic Magic
sponsored by ESET
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Read this paper for an in-depth discussion of malware identification, naming and classification and an exploration of the most useful ways for administrators to detect and analyze threats.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009
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Email and Web Security SaaS
sponsored by Webroot Software, Inc.
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Read this paper to learn about the many offerings of Webroot's Software as a Service (SaaS)-delivered e-mail and Web security suites, including anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-virus, and email archiving and encryption.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009
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Separating the Hype from Reality in Comparative Anti-Virus Reviews
sponsored by ESET
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One of the banes of the anti-virus researcher's life is the widespread confusion about "correct" comparative testing of anti-virus and anti-malware products. Read this paper to learn one expert's opinions about anti-virus testing and test reviews.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009
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The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
sponsored by ESET
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This white paper provides a thorough explanation of one of the more potent malware classifications effecting systems and networks today the Storm/Nuwar Botnet. While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009
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Strong Anti-virus Protection and Quantifiable ROI: How One Company Achieved Both
sponsored by ESET
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Citing its ease of use and heuristics, Archbold Medical Center chose ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition over a better known competitor. This case study details the fine points that led to that decision, including the softwares ability to find infections in their environment that had previously gone undetected.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009
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To Trust or Not - Top 10 Security Risks for Unwary Employees
sponsored by Blue Coat
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To eliminate the gray area of what your employees should and should not trust, know your web defense. This short paper provides a Top 10 list of risks that your employees may assume they can trust but your web defense should not.
Posted: 15 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009
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ANTI-SPYWARE SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued):
spam. Scores are computed and the message is assigned a probability rating. For example, it may be determined that a message has 85% probability that it is spam. E-mail administrators can create rules that govern how the messages are handled based on their scores; the highest scores may be deleted, medium scores may quarantined, and lower scores may be delivered but marked with a spam warning.A spam cocktail commonly includes several of the following identification methods, which may be weighted differently for message scoring:Machine learning: Implementing sophisticated computer algorithms that
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