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- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- During the May 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter eCrime summit in San Francisco, researcher Joe St. Sauver spoke about the need for a government agency to step up and help in the war against consumer computer compromise. He stated that consumers aren't capable of taking the steps necessary to prevent...
- Tags: Viruses, Virus, Leadership, Internet, Security, Attack mitigation, Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Consumers 0, Cybercriminals 1: the public disclosure debate
- It's become great sport—and often profitable—to identify vulnerabilities in applications, operating systems, and LAN/WAN device controlling software. These activities are not in themselves a problem. It's the efforts of white hat hackers that help vendors tighten up product security and increase user awareness of high risk environments or actions. But...
- Tags: Security, Attack mitigation, Cybercrime, Computer Crime, patching, vulnerability, Threats, Hacking, Antivirus Research
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack
- There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.However, a distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS is an entirely different story. You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP...
- Tags: Security Solutions, Mike Mullins, Ingress filtering, Denial of Service, DDoS, Cyberwarfare, Black hat, Attack mitigation
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
Additional Resources
- Running Head: Spyware - Spyware and the Next Level of Spyware Mitigation
- The paper addresses some of the current topics and information related to spyware. The difference which the author tries to bring to surface within the paper is why the spyware epidemic is growing and where the spyware industry is heading. The paper addresses the following questions on the journey to...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2005-07-14
- A Comprehensive, Best-Practices Approach to Business Resilience and Risk Mitigation
- A successful governance and risk mitigation strategy must operate at multiple levels with broad coverage. Risk mitigation plans at many organizations fall short simply because they are not comprehensive and fail to take into account the reach and range of all the risks that they actually face. Often this occurs...
- Tags: Organization, Risk & Compliance, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- MOBIWORP: Mitigation of the Wormhole Attack in Mobile Multihop Wireless Networks
- In multihop wireless systems, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A particularly devastating attack is the wormhole attack, where a malicious node records control traffic at one location and tunnels it to a colluding node, possibly...
- Tags: Mobile, Node, Attack, Security
- White papers 2006-11-17
- Virus Mitigation Techniques: After the Virus Is Inside - Part 2 - Level 200
- Specific real-world examples of mitigation techniques against Code Red, Nimbda, SQL Slammer, and Sasser will be discussed in this webcast, as well as potential remediation and mitigation techniques that could have been used to limit the spread or damages caused by these malware outbreaks. The webcast will explore in-depth defensive...
- Tags: Technique, Webcast, Malware, Virus, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Distributed Denial of Service Threats: Risks, Mitigation, and Best Practices
- This white paper describes the value of the Cisco Guard solution for DDoS mitigation. It begins by explaining the risks of DDoS attacks and the unique demands of DDoS mitigation. Next, it describes how the Cisco Guard solution works. The paper concludes with deployment considerations, including operational planning and whether...
- Tags: Mitigation, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Cost-Effectiveness Tool Primer: Tips on Software Use
- Risk assessment is used to identify the risks confronting a facility. It includes development of possible damage scenarios, probability assessments for these scenarios, and identification of the facility's vulnerabilities and critical areas. Identification of mitigation strategies - Engineering Alternatives, Management Practices, and Financial Mechanisms - provides performance and cost data...
- Tags: Software, Risk Assessment, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Tool, Mitigation Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Productivity, Performance Management, Security, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Building Disaster Resistant Communities
- Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management. It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people and property. Mitigation involves keeping homes away from floodplains, engineering bridges to withstand earthquakes, creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from hurricanes - and more. Mitigation is defined...
- Tags: Mitigation
- White papers
- Fill the gaps in your self-defending-network (SDN) with CS-MARS
- Explore the layers of the self-defending network SDN to understand how the SDN expands on the defense-in-depth concept and works to mitigate attacks against networks, network devices, and PCs in your enterprise in this sample chapter from Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS. Then, learn how...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Attack, CS-MARS, Networking, Security
- Book chapters 2006-09-12
- Victim-Assisted Mitigation Technique for TCP-Based Reflector DDoS Attacks
- This paper develops the concept of victim-assistance for Denial of Service DoS mitigation. The proposed concept is utilized within a simple, yet effective scheme designed for mitigating TCP-based reflector DoS attacks. The proposed scheme, called SYN number based filtering SNF, takes into account the TCP's connection establishment behavior and the...
- Tags: Technique, Concept, Iowa State University, TCP, Mitigation, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Security
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Worm Mitigation Technical Details
- Internet worms have had a severe impact on many enterprise customers. Recently developed tools and architectural techniques can be employed to assist with the mitigation of worm activity in an enterprise environment. This paper provides; a conceptual overview of worm mitigation techniques; details for deployment of these techniques into an...
- Tags: Technique, Internet Worm, Mitigation, Tool, Productivity, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers
- Use these steps in qualitative analysis of project risks
- Qualitative Risk AnalysisIt would be extremely helpful to follow this article up with one explaining the development of the risk plan!A scale of 1-10 works bestWe do this type of risk analysis on our projects and find that if you use a 1-10 scale on impact & probability and multiply...
- Tags: risk, mitigation, wparke@..., analysis, risk analysis, risk!, project management
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- SAMInside (zip)
- Fastest recovery of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 users' passwords. Brute-force attack; mask attack; dictionary attack; pre-calculated tables attack; import from LC, LCP, LCS, HDT, LMNT.LST, PWDUMP files; and import local hashes.
- Tags: Attack, Security
- Software downloads 2006-01-12
- TechNet Webcast: Application Compatibility Testing (Level 300)
- When a person deploys a new operating system in the organization, compatibility problems with one or many Line-Of-Business LOB applications can cause costly work stoppages. It is therefore essential that the person tests those LOB applications against the new operating system to ensure compatibility. This webcast describes the steps involved...
- Tags: Webcast, Operating System, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software
- Webcasts
- Complete Security: The Case for Combined Behavioral and Signature-Based Protection
- The debate between behavioral and signature-based protection is a hot topic in IT security practices, especially in the area of system security. Given the speed at which viruses and worms hit the Internet, security that protects against the next new attack without an update is very attractive. This paper examines...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Protection, Signature, Internet, Security
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Staying Ahead of Today's Security Threat Curve
- In today's enterprise, the security threats arrive faster, and are more sophisticated than ever before. It's almost impossible to stay ahead of the threat curve. Trying to determine where the next attack is coming from and what its target might be is nearly a full time job, leaving little time...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Threat, Security
- Webcasts
- iQSM - Total Risk Management (exe)
- iQSM is a multi-user, enterprise-wide risk management, audit and compliance suite. Full risk lifecycle capability that includes risk identification, risk mitigation and mitigation monitoring. User configurable dashboard to monitor key performance indicators KPIs of compliance, risk and audit exceptions as well as audit scheduling and progress. Improved reporting facilities giving...
- Tags: Audit, Risk Management, iQSM, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2006-02-21
- Vanguard: A New Detection Scheme for a Class of TCP-Targeted Denial-of-Service Attacks
- A few low-rates, TCP-targeted Denial-of-Service DoS attacks have been recently proposed, including the Shrew attack, Reduction of Quality RoQ attack, and Pulsing DoS PDoS attack. All of them use periodic attack pulses to throttle TCP flows. These attacks could potentially become major threats to the Internet's stability and therefore they...
- Tags: Attack, Security
- White papers 2006-08-16
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