Category Archives: Enterprises

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

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 [...]

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Malware Threats: What Would Churchill Do?

November 3, 2010 – 4:24 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director With Christmas fast approaching, (lest we forget the shops have kindly put all the Christmas goods out in September and early October again!) we can expect online attacks to increase as per their normal schedules, ramping up through the end of the year. With apologies to Sir Winston Churchill, [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Online shopping threats, Passwords, phishing, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks, Website owners | Comments (1)

Workplace Social Networking: More Like Antisocial Not-working

September 14, 2010 – 2:03 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director Hardly a week goes by when the national press doesn’t carry a story about how social networks represent a threat to privacy or security, or both. These news stories aren’t wrong: Users of social networks face a raft of risks, ranging from malware attacks and identity theft, to cyberbullying, [...]

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Weird Malware on Display at Black Hat

July 28, 2010 – 11:40 am

By Andrew Brandt I’m at the Black Hat Briefings this week, the annual confab of the best and brightest in computer security, catching up on the trends and tricks malware authors and data thieves employ. I just saw an impressive demo by a pair of security researchers who took a deep dive into the behaviors [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Keyloggers, phishing, Phishing Trojans, Stupid malware tricks | Leave a Comment

The Lessons of a ‘Love Bug’ Still Ring True

May 4, 2010 – 12:49 pm

By Ian Moyse A decade on from the ILOVEYOU worm, what has changed—apart from ‘we’re older and (supposedly) wiser?’ We have allowed the bad in the real world to progressively infect our online world, giving criminals a way to attack victims that is more dangerous for the victim and, coincidentally, safer for the attacker. As [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, social engineering, social networks, spam, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (3)

Cloud Defs Limit the Damage of a False Positive

April 22, 2010 – 8:46 pm

By Andrew Brandt If you’re a customer or an employee of McAfee, chances are, you’re having a rough week. The company published a false positive, or FP, in its antivirus definitions that went out to customers a few days ago. The FP resulted in some computers going into a loop where the antivirus engine misidentified [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Internet security industry, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks | Comments (1)

New Research: IT Pros Sound Off On 2010 Security Concerns

February 17, 2010 – 12:31 pm

Research from the enterprise security experts at Webroot With the explosion of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in 2009, it’s no surprise cybercriminals have set their sights on these Web sites for new victims. Facebook now has over 400 million active users and Twitter has over six million — a sizeable pool of potential targets. [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in social engineering, social networks | Leave a Comment

Internet Security Trends – A Look Back at 2009, A Look Ahead to 2010

November 20, 2009 – 2:29 pm

By Gerhard Eschelbeck It’s been a busy year in Internet security — cybercriminals were crafty and creative while we security vendors worked hard to stay a step ahead. Let’s take a look back at the biggest security trends of 2009, and at predictions for what’s ahead in 2010. 2009 – The Year in Review Conficker. Targeted [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Internet security industry, Threat Research | Comments (5)

Oh, Hush Chicken Little – The Sky is Not Falling: Why Cloud Security is Still Safe

July 17, 2009 – 2:19 pm

By Brian Czarny This week it was impossible to escape the “big news” that Twitter got hacked. The French hacker, known as “Hacker Croll,” who made headlines back in May for a similar Twitter breach, was at it again. This time he managed to get his hands on at least 310 sensitive Twitter business documents [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Internet security industry, Mobile security, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

What Keeps IT Professionals Up at Night

July 6, 2009 – 2:09 pm

By Brian Czarny Webroot recently surveyed more than 300 email and Web security professionals about email management, compliance, archiving, encryption, spam, viruses, Web filtering and Web-based malware attacks.  Our research shows that security practices and risk perceptions have evolved over the last year – the top three security concerns are email threat protection, data security/confidentiality [...]

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