Volume 12 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report which covers from July till December of 2011 contains a deep analysis of trends found in more than 100 countries around the world and offers suggestions to help manage risks to your organization, software, and people. It provides in-depth perspectives on software vulnerabilities and exploits, malicious...
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A study about cyber crime conducted on a sample of 50 organizations and performed by Ponemon Institute LLC shows an annual increase in costs of 56% over last year. These multinational corporations are US-based organizations with more than 700 users. The study reveals that on average each organization experiences more than one successful attack per...
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The five year old spambot known as Win32/Rustock comes from the family of rootkit-enabled backdoor Trojans with the primary motive being the distribution of spam emails. Recent variants of Rustock has been detected and associated with fraudulent applications such as, fake security programs. Rustock dimension reached its peak last year with over 800k detections. In March of...
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As a best security practice, systems administrator should never use the server console to browse Internet websites. There may be instances when an administrator may need to browse for support topics using the server’s IE while troubleshooting a server problem or downloading the latest device drivers but getting the latest football results or the...
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No out-of-the-box system is secure, therefore, a computer system user needs to perform a set of tasks to secure his/her system. However, keep in mind that even after performing such tasks, your system is still not 100% secure but you would need to continuously monitor the system with the help of utilities and self-training....
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