Earlier today, CoreTrace announced a record breaking 2009. The results are further proof that CoreTrace’s award-winning BOUNCER technology continues to be one of the leading endpoint security solutions in the application whitelisting market.
Some of the highlights include:
- Eighth consecutive quarter of record growth.
- 500 percent revenue growth over 2008.
- GlobalSCAPE Inc. investment of $2.3 million. Continue reading this post…
Zeus isn’t just the ruler of Mount Olympia, for now Zeus is also atop the botnet world.
As I mentioned in my previous blog, the Zeus family of malware is currently the number one botnet online. According to a recent article, “Zeus Trojan moving past anti-virus protections”, this particular type of malware, which targets bank-related information, has infected 3.6 million PC’s in the United States alone. What makes this malicious code so successful is its ability to bypass even the latest anti-virus software without even knowing it. Continue reading this post…
According to Gartner’s Avivah Litan, even two-factor authentication systems can’t stop today’s cyber thieves. Over the past few months, banks around the world that rely on one-time-password authentication systems have been compromised by man-in-the-middle attacks, despite having two-factor security in place.
Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek writes in his article, “Strong Authentication Not Strong Enough,” that fraudsters are now using call forwarding to bypass security measures. Continue reading this post…
For years, antivirus engines have been the primary defense against viruses, worms, Trojans, bots, and all other forms of malware designed to gain access to our emails, social networking sites, and corporate networks. While collecting their signatures from honeypots and gathering self-propagating threats has been useful in detecting malicious behavior in the past, things have changed. Today’s threats aren’t propagating. They’re using social engineering to lure their victims instead, thus breaking the traditional AV model. Continue reading this post…
In its 2009 Annual Security Report, released today, Cisco Systems did an excellent job of explaining the 2009 threat landscape and outlining its expectations for 2010.
While the 40 page report covers many, many topics, there was one overarching theme that continued to bubble to the surface for me: there are no patches for people, and people are the primary vulnerability going forward.
Like it or not, our people (employees, contractors, partners, etc.) will continue accessing social media sites, cloud computing solutions and parts of the web that we know nothing about (the “Dark Web” as Cisco calls it). Continue reading this post…