February 14, 2012, 8:17 PM EST By Tal Barak Harif Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Nice Systems Ltd. is posting the best start to a year since 2007 amid speculation it will report record net income as an increase in corporate Internet attacks boosted demand for the Israeli technology company’s products….
Six ways to prevent drive-by download malware attacks
In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method…
Six ways to prevent drive-by download malware attacks
In the first quarter of 2011, enterprise users encountered an average of 274 web-based malware attacks, a 103 percent increase over 2010, according to research from Cisco ScanSafe. Why the dramatic increase? One major cause is the growing number of drive-by download attacks. Drive-by downloads are an especially pernicious method…
Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds
Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can’t detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested. Trustwave’s 2012 Global Security Report studied 300 incidents across 18 countries where the company’s SpiderLabs division was called into investigate what had gone…
DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. As expected, Arbor Networks’ annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large…
ProtectMyID: #Truesday: Most data breaches are the result of malicious attacks. T or F?
ProtectMyID: #Truesday: Most data breaches are the result of malicious attacks. T or F? View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
CORRECT: Brazil Hacker Group Continues Wave Of Attacks, Hits Central Bank
CORRECT: Brazil Hacker Group Continues Wave Of Attacks, Hits Central Bank View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Chicago school attacks drugs by checking students’ text messages
Chattanooga Times Free Press CHICAGO — An Illinois high school is cracking down on campus drug sales by confiscating the cellphones of student suspects and using their text messages to identify others, an investigative technique that has raised questions among some legal experts and unnerved students who said they assumed…
Radware Security Report Debunks Prevailing Myths About Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
MAHWAH, New Jersey, February 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR – News) a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, instead found…
Video: Protecting America from cyber attacks
Some of the nation's top intelligence officials warned that cyber attacks could become more serious threat to national security than terrorism. Bob Orr reports on the growing danger of cyber attacks. View full post on cyber terrorism – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security