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ALSO CALLED: Malicious Threats, Malicious Computer Code, Malicious Logic, Joke Programs, Blended Threats, Malicious Software, Malicious Code, Mobile Malware DEFINITION: Polymorphic malware is harmful, destructive or intrusive computer software such as a virus, worm, Trojan or spyware that constantly changes ("morphs"), making it difficult to detect with anti-malware programs. Evolution of the malicious code can occur in a variety of ways such as filename changes, compression and encryption with variable keys.Although the appearance of the code in polymorphic malware … Definition continues below.
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How 3 Cyber Threats Transform The Role of Incident Response: Targeted Attacks, System Exploits, Data Theft, and You sponsored by Guidance Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Today’s malware enables potent multistage attacks. This paper describes how malware enables these advanced persistent threats. Three case studies explain how enterprise information security and incident response (IR) teams can employ cyberforensics tools to minimize the damage. Posted: 25 Jan 2011 \| Published: 01 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Security \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Information Security \| Malware \| Security Threats \| Trojan Horses \| Virus Protection

Combating Online Banking Fraud with Out-of-Band Authentication sponsored by PhoneFactor WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will look at how these threats affect online banking, customer perceptions about risk and financial responsibility, and the role of out-of-band authentication in protecting against online banking fraud. Posted: 04 Apr 2011 \| Published: 04 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Authentication \| Banking Industry \| Business Integration \| Customer Privacy \| Fraud Protection \| Identity Management \| Malware \| Online Banking Services \| Security Systems \| Security Threats

Think Your Anti-Virus Software Is Working? Think Again sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how anti-virus software hasn’t been keeping up. Studies show that even though most organizations use anti-virus software, more and more are succumbing to attacks. Lumension Intelligent Whitelisting integrates the most effective third party security tools and techniques. The result is more effective endpoint security. Posted: 01 Apr 2011 \| Published: 01 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Malware \| Network Management \| Network Security \| Patch Management \| Patch Management Software \| Security \| Security Management \| Virus Protection

10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do sponsored by Palo Alto Networks WHITE PAPER: Users continue to adopt new applications and technologies – and the threats carried by them. In some organizations, obstructing the adoption of new technologies can be a career-limiting move. Posted: 25 Mar 2011 \| Published: 24 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Applications Management \| Firewall Management \| Malware \| Network Security \| Security Policies \| Security Threats \| SSL \| Virus Protection

Intelligent real-time protection and application control sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: It is no longer sufficient to rely on outdated firewall technology that only looks at the port, protocol, source IP and destination IP to determine if a session from the outside should be allowed inside the network. Posted: 17 Mar 2011 \| Published: 17 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Firewall Appliances \| Intrusion Prevention \| Malware \| Network Security \| Scalability Testing \| Virus Protection

Granular application control, intelligence and real-time visualization sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: Application intelligence and control is available along with SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention as a one, two or three year subscription, or is included in SonicWALL Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite subscriptions for the TZ 210, Network Security Appliance (NSA) and E-Class NSA Series firewalls. Posted: 17 Mar 2011 \| Published: 17 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Applications Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Data Security \| Firewall Appliances \| Intrusion Detection \| Malware \| Policy-Based Network Management \| SSL

GlobalSign Security Services for Hosting Companies - Understanding the true opportunity for Hosting Companies & ISPs to resell Online Security Services sponsored by GlobalSign WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains GlobalSign’s Internet security technology, its uses and necessity (and therefore the sales opportunity), advises on how to fit the services into existing hosting portfolios, and details how provisioning SSL can now be automated to degrees previously considered impossible. Posted: 16 Mar 2011 \| Published: 16 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Security \| Certificate Authorities \| Internet Security \| Malware \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Software \| SSL \| VARs

Excerpts from Virus Bulletin Comparative Reviews August-December 2010 sponsored by ESET WHITE PAPER: The basic requirements for a product to achieve VB100 certification status are that a product detects, both on demand and on access, in its default settings, all malware known to be ‘In the Wild’ at the time of the review, and generates no false positives when scanning a set of clean files. Posted: 16 Mar 2011 \| Published: 16 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Malware \| Performance Testing \| Security \| Test Results \| Virus Detection Software \| Virus Protection

Why Customers Love VIPRE Business sponsored by GFI Software WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that selecting and anti-virus solution for your organization is an important decision. VIPRE Business offers an easy-to-use management console that gets you up and running fast. Posted: 14 Mar 2011 \| Published: 11 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Anti-Spyware Software \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Virus Protection

Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware sponsored by GFI Software WHITE PAPER: Managing threats to the endpoint infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult for most organizations. At the same time, many anti-malware defenses are not keeping up with the growing threats posed by malware. This white paper addresses the variety of issues facing organizations today in the context of their system manaagement challenges. Posted: 14 Mar 2011 \| Published: 11 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Anti-Spyware Software \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Software

Spam 2011: Protection Against Evolving Threats sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The very best anti-spam solutions today deliver 95% effectiveness. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough. Check out this white paper to see how enterprises can defend themselves with a comprehensive and adaptive anti-spam solution such as the Proofpoint Protection Suite. Posted: 09 Mar 2011 \| Published: 09 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Anti-Spam Software \| Email Security \| Email Threats \| Malware \| Phishing \| Security Threats \| Spam \| Spyware \| Virus Protection

Balancing Social Networking with Network Security Objectives sponsored by BlueCoat WHITE PAPER: Social networking has achieved a level of popularity that requires reasonable access at work, but it is also sufficiently mature to bring value to many businesses. But safe social networking requires an aggressive and layered security strategy at the web gateway, as well as the definition of new usage policies and priorities from management and IT. Posted: 04 Mar 2011 \| Published: 04 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Malware \| Network Security \| Risk Assessment \| Security Threats \| Social Networking \| Virus Protection

SuperMassive E10000 Series Next-Generation Firewall sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: The SonicWALL® SuperMassive™ E10000 Series is SonicWALL’s Next-Generation Firewall platform designed for large networks to deliver scalability, reliability and deep security at multi-gigabit speeds. Posted: 28 Feb 2011 \| Published: 28 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Intrusion Prevention \| Malware \| Network Security \| SSL \| VoIP \| VPN

Malware Security Report: Protecting Your Business, Customers, and the Bottom Line sponsored by VeriSign EMEA WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you understand the threat from malware and how it can impact your online business. You’ll learn about criminals’ motivations for distributing malware through the web and how they infect web servers to make distribution possible. Posted: 18 Feb 2011 \| Published: 18 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Security Management \| Web Server Software \| Web Services Security

Is Your Acceptable Use Policy Social Media-proof? sponsored by M86 Security WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended for IT decision makers, HR managers and executives responsible for adopting and enforcing email and Web Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) within an organization. It provides guidance on how to update an AUP to accommodate the increasing popularity and use of social media in the business environment. Posted: 11 Feb 2011 \| Published: 11 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Corporate Governance \| Email Security \| Internet Filtering \| Internet Security \| Malware \| Regulatory Compliance \| Social Networking

Ten Ways the IT Department Enables Cybercrime sponsored by Kaspersky Lab WHITE PAPER: In this paper to discover 10 ways IT departments are unknowingly supporting cybercrime. View now to explore these common pitfalls and gain key guidelines on how to prevent them. Posted: 08 Feb 2011 \| Published: 08 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Cyberterrorism \| Data Security \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Mobile Device Management

Take Back the Endpoint sponsored by Kaspersky Lab WHITE PAPER: During the course of three days in late 2009, cybercriminals acquired the banking credentials,username and password, for Hillary Machinery, Inc., located in Plano, Texas, and conducted more than 45 separate transactions to over 40 different payees. The result was a loss of $801,495. Posted: 08 Feb 2011 \| Published: 08 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Crime \| Cybersecurity \| Endpoint Security \| IT Departments \| Malware \| Security Threats

Sophos Security Threat Report 2011 sponsored by Sophos, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Let our new 2011 Security Threat Report be your weapon in the battle against malware. It describes the significant threats of 2010, what to watch for in 2011, and more importantly, what you need to do to get ahead of them. Posted: 07 Feb 2011 \| Published: 07 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Malware \| Mobile Device Management \| Passwords \| Removable Media \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Threats \| Social Networking \| Spam

Trend Micro’s End-to-End Vulnerability Management: A New Approach to Layered Security sponsored by Trend Micro, Inc. WHITE PAPER: An explosion in system and application vulnerabilities has been met with new ways to attack these weaknesses. In this paper, EMA analysts take a look at factors driving the need for increased security, and how new approaches to mitigating vulnerabilities such as virtual patching or remediation, provide more ways to deliver vulnerability management. Posted: 31 Jan 2011 \| Published: 31 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Database Security \| Endpoint Security \| Malware \| Network Security \| Patch Management \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Vulnerability Assessments \| Vulnerability Management

Trend Micro Endpoint Comparative Report Performed by AV-Test.org sponsored by Trend Micro, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In May of 2010, AV-Test.org performed endpoint security benchmark testing on five market-leading Enterprise endpoint solutions from Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. Read this comparative report to see the results of these tests and how Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security stands distinctly apart from other products. Posted: 31 Jan 2011 \| Published: 31 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Data Security \| Endpoint Security \| Internet Security \| Malware \| Network Security \| Security Threats \| Vendors \| Virus Protection

Global Security Report 2011 sponsored by Trustwave WHITE PAPER: In 2010, SpiderLabs performed more than 220 investigations worldwide. In 85% of the investigations, a system breach was confirmed. Of those entities in which a system breach was confirmed, 90% involved the actual theft of sensitive data, representing criminals’ effectiveness in extracting data once system access is obtained. Posted: 27 Jan 2011 \| Published: 26 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Application Security \| Crime \| Cybersecurity \| Email Security \| Malware \| Penetration Testing \| Security Audits \| Security Threats \| Wireless Security

A Hack Attack: Six Steps to Recovery sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: It’s startling when malware hits your network, or an intruder enters by password cracking. You’ve been hacked—now what? Don’t panic. Read about the six steps that your business can take to respond and protect itself. Posted: 21 Jan 2011 \| Published: 21 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Malware \| Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Systems Management \| Virus Protection

Malicious JavaScript Attacks: What Can You Do? sponsored by Sophos, Inc. WHITE PAPER: We’ll review what to watch for, as well as the security strategies that will help keep you safe. Posted: 12 Jan 2011 \| Published: 11 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Cybersecurity \| Hackers \| Internet Security \| JavaScript \| Malware \| Security Best Practices \| Security Threats \| Vulnerability Management \| Web Services Security

2010 Threat Report sponsored by Websense, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Websense® Security Labs™ uses the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network to discover,classify, and monitor global Internet threats and trends. Featuring the world’s first Internet HoneyGrid™, the system uses hundreds of technologies to parse through more than 1 billion pieces of content daily,searching for security threats. Posted: 11 Jan 2011 \| Published: 11 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Crime \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Security \| Malware \| Security Best Practices \| Security Policies \| Security Threats \| Spam

Three Ways to Prevent USB Insecurity in Your Enterprise sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: USB flash drives and other portable devices are valuable tools in the typical government staffer’s virtual toolkit. These handy devices allow workers to efficiently accomplish their duties and carry out their tasks for the public good. Read this paper to learn how to enable the use of these productivity tools, while mitigating the risk. Posted: 06 Jan 2011 \| Published: 06 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Security \| Malware \| Mobile Device Management \| Risk Management \| Security Best Practices \| Security Threats \| USB

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MALWARE DEFINITION (continued): … varies with each "mutation," the essential function usually remains the same. For example, a spyware program intended to act as a keylogger will continue to perform that function even though its signature changes. If the malicious program is discovered by an anti-malware vendor and its signature is added to a downloadable database, the anti-malware program will fail to detect the rogue code after the signature has changed, just as if a new virus, worm, Trojan or spyware program has emerged. In this way, malware creators gain an advantage over countermeasure developers.The best method …
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