Category Archives: Enterprises

Large businesses, governments, and militaries are entities the size we call “enterprises,” and as such, are frequent targets for attack.

Cisco releases ‘Cisco Global Threat Report’ for 4Q11

January 29, 2012 – 7:12 pm

By Dancho Danchev Cisco Systems, recently announced the release of ’Cisco Global Threat Report’ for 4Q11, containing threat intelligence based on Cisco’s observation of the malicious threat landscape. Key summary points:

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Zappos.com hacked, 24 million users affected

January 16, 2012 – 3:47 pm

by Dancho Danchev According to an internal memo issued by Zappos, the shoe-and-apparel-selling division of Amazon has been breached by unknown cyber attackers, leading to the compromised accounts of over 24 million users. The company has indicated that names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and the last four digits of customer’s credit card numbers have been [...]

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Everyone has a role in protecting a corporate infrastructure (Part 1)

November 30, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Jacques Erasmus This time of year, those of us in information security become wary of crafty criminals leveraging the winter holidays to prey on our employees’ lack of awareness online in a number of ways. All it takes is for one Trojan to infect a single PC in a company to put an entire [...]

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Two Days in Vegas: Black Hat in Brief

August 5, 2011 – 7:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt The Black Hat briefings, held Wednesday and Thursday this week, once again brought together some of the best and brightest in the security industry to share knowledge about novel attacks and better defenses against old and new attacks. And, once again, there were some eye opening moments at the conference. Right from [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Android, Deep Knowledge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Internet security industry, malware, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Why Put Security Into the Cloud?

June 7, 2011 – 7:51 am

This week, Webroot’s Thre@t Reply managed to steal some time with Ian Moyse, who knows a thing or two about the benefits of putting your computer and network security into the cloud, out where the threats are, rather than keeping your security inside your network or on individual computers. As always, feel free to submit [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Internet security industry, phishing, social engineering, spam, Threat Research, Website owners | Comments (2)

Malicious PHP Scripts on the Rise

February 22, 2011 – 4:34 pm

By Andrew Brandt Last week, I gave a talk at the RSA Security Conference about malicious PHP scripts. For those who can’t attend the conference, I wanted to give you a glimpse into this world to which, until last year, I hadn’t paid much attention. My normal week begins with a quick scan of malware [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Destructive behavior, phishing, social engineering, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Uncategorized, Website owners | Comments (3)

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

February 15, 2011 – 9:22 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy, maintain and enhance a service than it has been at any other point in computing history. Just look at Facebook, which grew to 500 million members in a very short period of [...]

By imoyse | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Mobile security, phishing, Search engines | Comments (2)

10 Threats from 2010 We’d Prefer Remain History

January 1, 2011 – 3:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt With 2010 finally behind us, and an unknown number of cyberattacks likely to come in the new year, I thought I’d run down a brief list of the malicious campaigns criminals pulled off last year that I’d really dread to see anyone repeat. Now that they’re in the past, they should stay [...]

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Christmas IE Zero-Day Thwarted. Ho ho ho.

December 23, 2010 – 1:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, two different 0 day exploits against Internet Explorer were published, just in time for the holidays when most of you (and many security researchers as well) are taking time off from work. The exploit, named CVE-2010-3971, is fairly serious, affecting the latest builds of IE versions 6 through 8. Well, I’d [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Internet Explorer, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)

Internet Misuse: Bandwidth Does Matter

December 14, 2010 – 1:23 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director Recent studies demonstrate that upwards of 25% of Internet bandwidth in an office are consumed by employees misusing the internet. According to Gartner, the average growth of business email volume is 30% annually, with the average size of the email content growing in parallel. Add to this the growth [...]

By imoyse | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Website owners | Comments (1)
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