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Password, ID Stealing Malware Volume Jumps 400%
Clampi, the Trojan that Secure Channel wrote about yesterday, is a fine example of why we’ll never see another Code Red, Nimda or LoveLetter virus again. The intent of malware is no longer to cause mass service disruptions, but rather to steal as much information as possible without getting detected. Trojans, worms, viruses and rootkits…
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Eight Steps to Securing Unstructured Data
As your customers continue to leverage mobile devices and laptops within and outside of their environments, many of them have experienced unparalleled productivity within recent years. But with these gains come significant risks. As IT assets become scattered to the winds, so too does the valuable data that these assets carry. According to the Aberdeen…
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Xceedium Moves to Channel-Only Sales Model
The leadership at Xceedium is pinning its hopes on security channel providers seeking to fill in gaps within their access control portfolios with a move this week to a channel-only distribution model. The Jersey City, N.J.-based security niche player primarily focuses on offering a client-based product that allows organizations to track, audit and control user…
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Clampi Trojan Renews Assault on Bank Accounts
Sporadic reports are surfacing that the authentication credential stealing Trojan Clampi is regaining momentum and poised to begin a new round of stealthily siphoning cash from the bank accounts belonging to compromised users. Clampi—also known as Ligats, Ilomo and Rscan—was first discovered in January 2008. The Trojan targets machines running nearly all versions of Windows…
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Seagate Releases Self-Encrypting Drive Option for Enterprise Disk Portfolio
Seagate Technology this week released to the channel a new option to add full disk encryption to enterprise-class hard drives. Designed to offer a cost-effective means for highly regulated enterprises in such industries as health care and finance to comply with security mandates, Seagate’s Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology has long been an option within…
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Panda Targets Symantec, McAfee with Revamped Channel Program
Spain-based Panda Security has nibbled in the North America antivirus and endpoint security market for nearly a decade, but never gained traction against giants such as Symantec and McAfee. Now with the market leaders increasingly diversifying their portfolios, Panda says it believes it has an opportunity to more than crack the market, and the wedge…