There seems to be a consistent theme at this year’s RSA Conference around the ineffectiveness of traditional defense strategies against modern malware attacks. Each day, I’ve jotted down notes from various sessions that include things like:
Not surprising, many of these same concerns fall in line with how experts in the security industry now see traditional antivirus software. In the article, “Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say,” Gary Golumb, principal security researcher at Netwitness said industry assumptions about the effectiveness of attack mitigation technologies and approaches have been, in his terms, “horribly off base.” Continue reading this post…
An RSA study released on Wednesday claims that most major U.S. corporations — including up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies — may be affected by botnet activity from computers compromised by the Zeus Trojan.
In the article, “88 percent of firms show Zeus botnet activity,” RSA’s FraudAction Anti-Trojan services analyzed data stolen by Zeus from infected computers that included IP addresses and emails that belonged to the corporations. Among the stolen data found on the sites where infected computers drop the stolen data was compromised email addresses from about 60% of the firms. Continue reading this post…
In the midst of March Madness, it seems like security professionals everywhere are scurrying to find ways to safeguard their enterprises from new forms of malware and exploit techniques that have successfully bypassed most antivirus protections throughout the first quarter of 2010. With systems constantly under attack, what’s important is making sure our computer endpoints are protected from the latest viruses and botnets out there. Check out some of the top stories from March 2010. Continue reading this post…