February 23rd, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Microsoft’s Secure Windows Initiative unit has emerged from the shadows, promising a new level of transparency, as well as details of software vulnerabilities and security bulletins.
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February 23rd, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Researchers at Georgia Tech have published a paper on BotSniffer—a program they’ve designed to detect and disable botnets. Botsniffer is not the only bot-detection program available, but the Georgia Tech research team believes that the program’s approach to the botnet issue results in a better correlation rate and a lower number of false positives.
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February 15th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Anti-virus and anti-spyware technologies, which are packaged as ‘blacklist’ solutions, are gradually giving way to what security experts claim is a far more effective IT security technology based on ‘whitelist’ solutions. However, a comprehensive IT security solution would imply that vendors take care of the root cause rather than just specific problems which the lists address, they caution.
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February 13th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"First and foremost, least privilege models prevent 90 percent or more of today’s malware. You can’t ignore that statistic. Malware writers may easily code around least privilege when they need to, but it does significantly cut down on software that can cause harm today. Second, least privilege mechanisms make it harder for malware to modify key system components. While malware may be able to still do harm — much harm — with user-mode programming alone, not being able to semi-permanently modify the operating system does provide protection you would not have otherwise.
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"TrueCrypt, an encryption program designed to hide your data from prying eyes, has released a new update that adds the ability to encrypt an entire disk. Seems like just about everyday we read about yet another exposure of sensitive data because someone’s laptop was stolen, but if those careless employees had used TrueCrypt it wouldn’t be a problem.
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Peter Tippett thinks it’s time for security professionals to wake up and stop wasting their energy. In a presentation here yesterday, Tippett — who is vice president of risk intelligence for Verizon Business, chief scientist at ICSA Labs, and the inventor of the program that became Norton AntiVirus — said that about one third of today’s security practices are based on outmoded or outdated concepts that don’t apply to today’s computing environments.
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Nearly two dozen companies announced on Monday the creation of an organization to set best practices and standards for the evaluation of antivirus software. As previously reported by SecurityFocus, more than 40 researchers met in Bilbao, Spain, last month to finalize the details of the group, dubbed the Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization (AMTSO).
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"A new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet even more powerful and stealthy than the infamous Storm has begun infiltrating mostly U.S.-based large enterprises, educational institutions, and customers of major ISPs. The MayDay botnet can evade leading antivirus products, and so far has compromised thousands of hosts, according to Damballa, which says 96.5 percent of the infected machines are in the U.S., and about 2.5 percent in Canada.
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"Security threats in the cyber scene have grown at an extraordinary rate in the past year. This year will also see a rise in spyware and rouge ware threats to computer security besides the general virus and worms problem. Below is the list of prominent threats we can see in 2008.
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February 8th, 2008 by Shanmuga
"We all do dumb things now and then, and computer users are no exception. Inadvertently pressing the wrong key combination or innocently clicking OK in the wrong dialog box can change important settings that alter a computer’s behavior or even crash the system.
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