Infected Web Pages Nearly Triple

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The rate at which Internet security company Sophos detected infected Web pages nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2008, the company said. In its Q1 08 threat report released Monday, Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw ...

A Case Study on Storm Worm

Friday, April 18th, 2008

A bot is a computer program installed on a compromised machine which offers an attacker a remote control mechanism. Botnets, i.e., networks of such bots under a common control infrastructure, pose a severe threat to today’s Internet: Botnets are commonly used for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, sending of spam, or ...

SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January. They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running ...

Trend Micro Web Protection Add-On

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Complement your existing desktop protection (see list below) with Trend Micro Web Protection Add-On—a lightweight add-on trial solution designed to proactively protect your computer against Web threats and bot infiltration. Web Protection Add-On uses Trend Micro’s revolutionary in-the-cloud security technology to monitor outbound Web requests. This real-time protection proactively scans ...

Before Patch Tuesday, There Were Malware

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities. What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...