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The Industry’s Insight about Anti-Malware Testing
The journalist and blogger Kevin Townsend posted some interesting queries about the AMTSO or the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization. One question that surely caught the attention of many is, “Is AMTSO the anti-malware industry looking after itself?” Yes in some cases, but it can go bad when penetration testing and anti-malware testing goes awry. It is because good testing means better promotion for products, while bad testing will promote the bad ones – the ones that could cause unwarranted results and damages. That is not good. You see, Townsend is not the only person having suspicious thought about AMTSO, Security →
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Stopping Breaches with Agile Security
It is very important for the network security to improve so that they can address the rapidly changing environment they are in. Unfortunately, many companies suffered damaging and also embarrassing attacks on their network. It has also dealt a devastating blow to the security industry because it has exposed their technologies, systems, services and procedures, which most people rely on. Nowadays, the traditional in IT security is not enough in protecting the IT network. The traditional security measures and tools we used to have are made to deal with a slow changing setting. In fact, they weren’t built to deal →
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Malware Evolution
Malware threats today are far more serious than they were before. Why you may ask? It is because malware threats today have the ability to infect millions of nodes and coordinate all of them to perform a single purpose – create havoc on the internet superhighway. Aside from that fact, modern malware can be undetected when they pass through tough security boundaries, they are adaptable and it has more application compared to other worms and viruses. Because of the threat of modern malware, there are many ways to deter the threats of malware. Malware’s History Four decades ago, a bright →
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The History of Cyber Security
The term cyber crime is all the same as any other kind of crime – there is a culprit and also a victim. For the cyber crime to become successful, it needs the same component of other crime; the motive, the opportunity and the means. When one can view the brief history of cyber crime we could see that the elements for the motive, opportunity and means are few, thus computer crime is less prevalent. Indeed, profit is one of the reasons, but there are some reasons like revenge for cyber crimes like DDoS attacks as well as ego in →
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The Power of Knowledge Against Hackers
Without a doubt, hackers are very persistent and that they have the advantage against their victims. However, hackers are still human and if we are aware of their methods, then it is possible to defend the sensitive data of the company. The knowledge on how the company can defend their data could possibly deter any future attacks. If the companies could determine how hackers work, then they could make the right countermeasures against them. The bright minds behind the maintenance and security of company networks are familiar with DDoS attacks, spear phishing and also defacements on company websites. They have →
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Incoming Waves of Small Botnets
Large botnets nowadays are in the hot seat due to the fact that law enforcement as well as security agencies are tracking and eliminating them one by one. In fact some of the major botnet operations have been ended and their operators are now behind bars. Because of the increase of crackdowns against them, some vile minds are directing their skills to different avenues. These avenues are multiplying in an alarming rate even with the increase of crackdowns against them and the reason is simple – because they are smaller and much harder to trace botnets. These kinds of botnets →
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The Dangers of Man-in-the-Middle in Voting Machines
The Election Day is fast approaching in every state in the country. Security experts and researchers from Vulnerability Assessment Team or VAT at Argonne National Laboratories made a video that demonstrates a simple and non-cyber man-in-the middle or MITM attacks on the voting machine – the Diebold AccuVote TS Electronic Voting Machine. The researchers Jon Warner and Roger Johnston inserted customized hardware costing only 10 dollars into the Diebold AccuVote TS. They were able to read the touchscreen vote using it and they were able to alter the information that was stored within. Changing the electronic votes isn’t really new; →
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Protecting Business Networks By Using Network Segmentation
With the consumerization in IT nowadays; the various mobilization and connectivity of devices as well as the explosion of a number of Web based applications, it has driven many of us to use the Internet and related technologies in ways different than before. These innovative trends in technologies have made businesses grow more competitive and increase their productivity so that they could also create new opportunities for the global market. This has also dramatically changed how business networks work nowadays; companies have pushed well beyond their old boundaries all with regard to the output and the speed. Unfortunately, the security →
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