New trends in cybercrime show that hackers are shifting to more monetarily valuable information — unprotected intellectual property, and federal government networks. While traditional antivirus solutions struggle to keep up with today’s prolific attack software, Gartner recommends whitelisting as a complementary security defense in preventing malware attacks on corporate networks and PCs. Here are some of the top endpoint security stories for March 2011. Continue reading this post…
While the New York Times article, “Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay,” hypothesizes that Israel and the United States were behind the Stuxnet worm to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a nuclear bomb, the scariest part may not be the worm itself — but the blueprint it provides for similar cyber attacks against highly sensitive targets and critical infrastructure around the world.
It’s no secret that advancements in all research and development are predicated upon what has been done before. And the same rule applies to malware creation. Continue reading this post…
Record-breaking years can sometimes be a good thing, but not when it comes to malware.
According to PandaLabs, 2010 set a record for new online threats, with cybercriminals creating one-third of all malware in existence last year alone. The report found that throughout 2010 the average number of new threats created every day rose from 55,000 to 63,000.
With financial gain being the prime motivator behind the creation of new malware, the study also found that banking Trojans were the most prevalent type of attacks in 2010 at 56%, along with viruses (22%) and worms (10%). Despite all these findings, the one that struck me the most was that 52% of new malware created last year exists for only 24 hours. Then it’s gone. Continue reading this post…
December is typically the time when industry experts reflect on the past year and provide their take on what we might expect in the year to come. While the IT security industry saw its share of game-changing incidents in 2010, unfortunately, many agree the same security trends we’ve seen over the past year will continue into 2011. December also saw security professionals looking to adopt new solutions to stop more targeted malware exploits and meet their regulatory compliance goals. Here are some of the top endpoint security stories for December 2010. Continue reading this post…
Looking back, 2010 was a breakout year for application whitelisting. Once considered an alternative anti-malware solution, a shift has occurred towards a modern, antivirus approach that has application whitelisting as the primary mechanism for preventing the execution of malicious applications, with traditional antivirus solutions playing a more reactive, cleanup role.
Unfortunately, the year also brought a number of security challenges that have permanently changed the threat landscape. The year was highlighted by several new, high-profiled targeted attacks that included the game-changing Stuxnet worm. But through it all was the fact that application whitelisting stopped portions of all these targeted attacks, no matter how new or sophisticated they were. Below, I’ve compiled a list of CoreTrace’s Top 5 blogs for 2010: Continue reading this post…