Posts Tagged ‘encrypted data’

Android Social Engineering Threats in the Spotlight

Feb

2012

In all of our earlier blogs about the Android threats, we have highlighted the fact that user awareness is one of the most important factors to fight against the social engineering threats. Yesterday, a familiar Android threat was making news powered by a sound social engineering trick. This blog looks at the differences/similarities of the […]

Category General Written by GLOBAL SECURITY ADVISOR RESEARCH BLOG 0 Comments

Kelihos/Hlux botnet returns with new techniques

Jan

2012

It has been four months since Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab announced the disruption of Kelihos/Hlux botnet. The sinkholing method that was used has its advantages — it is possible to disable a botnet rather quickly without taking control over the infrastructure.However,as this particular case showed, it is not very effective if the botnet’s masters are […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

Firewalls Can’t Keep up With DDoS Attacks

Nov

2011

Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found. The survey of 1000 medium and large organizations in ten countries found that up to 45 percent of respondents experience […]

Category Security Written by admin 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘encrypted data’

Kelihos/Hlux botnet returns with new techniques

Firewalls Can’t Keep up With DDoS Attacks

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us