Protecting school networks against attacks (Mike…

Protecting school networks against attacks (Mike Pennell with NewNet66) … attachments – spam with www links – spyware attacks can come from inside or outside – in the past … April 17th, 2007 These are my notes from a network security presentation by Mike Pennell

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Russinovich: “Malware Will Thrive, Even With Vista’s UAC”

Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system.

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Virginia Tech e-mail scam may land in your inbox

…The terror at Virginia Tech has turned into a lure for spammers and hackers to infect your computer. First, it comes to you in an e-mail – trying to entice you with with a picture of the gunman and video of the campus shootings.

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Google and the Web Based Malware

Google made an interesting study [PDF, 438 KB] about the pages that try to automatically install malware (the so-called “drive-by download”) … like Firefox or Opera and to install anti-virus / anti-spyware software (Google Pack includes all of these: Firefox, Norton Security Scan and Spyware Doctor, bu

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List of Security Related Applications for Linux

List of Security Related Applications for Linux Filed under: Apllications/Software, Security — E@zyVG @ 10: … AntiVirus – Extremely popular antivirus solution for UNIX based machines. Includes real time virus scanning and a virus definition database updated multiple times per day. AVScan – A front-end for Clam

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