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What CEOs should know about advanced persistent threats and industrialized hacking
by Amichai Shulman
The world of hacking has evolved into two major varieties: industrialized attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). There has been a lot of discussion around the validity of APT recently, but the threat is real. So, what's the difference between APT and industrialized hacking, and how should you respond?
Industrialized hacking
Just as the Industrial Revolution advanced methods and accelerated assembly from single to mass production in the 19th century, today's cybercrime industry has similarly transformed and automated itself to improve efficiency, scalability and profitability. What are the key characteristics of an industrialized attack?
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Google says 11,000 domains distributing rogue anti-virus
by Angela Moscaritolo
Rogue anti-virus software currently accounts for 15 percent of all web-based malware and is growing in prevalence, according to researchers at Google.
During the course of a 13-month analysis of fake AV on the web, Google researchers analyzed 240 million web pages collected by the search giant's malware detection engine and found that more than 11,000 domains were involved in the distribution of fake AV.
Google researchers wrote a paper about their findings, which they plan to release April 27 at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats in San Jose, Calif. Rogue AV, which currently accounts for 15 percent of all malware Google detects on the web, is rising in prevalence faster than other forms of web-based malware, the company said.
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Webcast: The Hidden Dangers Behind Your Favorite Search Engine
by Peter Firstbrook
Imagine the Internet without search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo! We take them for granted. However, hackers are exploiting search engines and other trusted Internet resources to infect your PCs.
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Health worker is first HIPAA privacy violator to get jail time
Under the new penalties adding "teeth" to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), SC Magazine has reported that a former UCLA Health System employee, apparently disgruntled over an impending firing, has been sentenced to four months in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to illegally snooping into patient records.
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Visiting Nurse Service of New York Case Study
Mr. Wayne Wright, Information Security Specialist at Visiting Nurse Service of New York, discusses how the organization protects in real-time 4,500 field-based laptops from emerging Web and email threats, safeguards its patient health information and meets regulatory compliance such as HIPPA and PCI- all with Websense.
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The Broken Windows Economics of IT Security
by Armit Williams
To economists, the term “Broken Windows” refers to the question that if a shopkeeper pays a glazier to repair a broken window at his store, does this deliver an economic benefit to society? Many people would say yes, because it generates demand for glass and work for the glazier.
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Adding some Bite to your Bark
by Andy ITGuy
If you have been in IT for any length of time, especially if you are in Information Security, you are all too familiar with your friendly neighborhood auditor. Some of us only have to deal with external auditors and some of us are blessed with our own little bulldog internal auditor. Someone who either hounds us or leaves us alone and then blind sides us with their reports. Someone who can and often does make our life at work miserable.
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Websense Secures the “Borderless” Enterprise with Web Security Gateway Anywhere
Today’s organizations are becoming “borderless” – employees are working remotely, in branch offices and more and more business operations are done over the Web. With so much at risk in terms of new advanced data-stealing threats, organizations absolutely need to have uniform security policies no matter where an employee is located. Websense has announced the new Websense® Web Security Gateway Anywhere™, a secure Web gateway that delivers industry firsts in threat and risk prevention and deployment capabilities.
Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere is the only solution on the market that offers both on-premise and SaaS capabilities in one unified solution, with just one console to manage. This saves, time, resources and overhead while delivering the absolute best security protection against today’s modern threats.
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