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Symantec Warns of Adaptive Malware Threat
In its’ annual "Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR)", the 14th edition of the report, Symantec says it expects that malicious code developers will continue to increasingly adapt attacks in order to evade detection and that some overt attack activities could be abandoned or pushed further underground. Malicious activity will be increasingly pushed to regions with…
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Security Breaches Strike Two-Thirds of Businesses
Cloud-based application security solutions provider Veracode has released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Research around the state of software security today and what enterprises are doing to protect critical data residing in applications. Among the findings, the exploitation of vulnerabilities in software is a major cause of data breaches with 62…
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Microsoft Plans Simultaneous Next-Gen Exchange, ForeFront Launch
Microsoft promises a “rolling thunder” launch later this year of the various components of the next generation of its ForeFront security suite for client, network and cloud-based network protection. ForeFront Code-named Stirling, the next generation of the ForeFront suite has been delayed as the software packages for anti-malware and application-layer security undergo further testing and…
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Twitter Worm Stopped, Malware Threat Persists
“All clear” is the word coming out of Twitter as it completes the mop-up work from an Easter weekend worm outbreak that infected tens of thousands of user profiles. According to published reports, Twitter was attacked at least four times in the past week with a worm designed to infect profiles with an application that…
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Facebook Impact on Student Grades Raises New Questions for Business
As enterprises grapple with whether social networking creates security risks and productivity losses, a new study from the Ohio State University suggests there is a link between the use of Facebook and lower grades among college students. According to the survey of 219 students, those who said they use Facebook have grade point averages between…
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Conficker Still Poses Significant Threat
Fortinet has announced findings from its March 2009 Threatscape Report, which is characterized by a persistent virus and a notorious worm: the Conficker. The report encompasses the threatscape in general and is segmented into different parts examining spam travel, IPS exploits, antivirus and malware movements, web traffic and web content filtering. "It is yet to…