All pages tagged with malware
A Patch in Time
Victor Barra simply didn't have the staff to keep the more than 1,000 Windows servers at Siemens Medical patched. More than once, malware attacks brought down systems and cost the ...
Document added on Jan. 7, 2011Don't Take Code Red Lightly
This paper analyzes the patterns of emerging malware and presents a strategy to assist network and security administrators in addressing new and old threats.
Document added on April 12, 2011Malware Myths and Misinformation, Part One: Windows, Mac, Exchange, and IIS
This is a bad news article. It addresses some common misconceptions deriving from complacency, wishful thinking, an inability to question, and a lack of research. The fallacies we address here ...
Document added on March 8, 2011Palm OS: a Platform for Malicious Code? Part Two
This is the second of a two-part series that will attempt to establish to what degree Palm OS-based systems represent a suitable platform for malicious code. The first article examined ...
Document added on May 20, 2011A Brief History of The Worm
This article will take a brief look at the evolution of worms and other malware, in an attempt to better understand how we got to where we are today. Self-replicating ...
Document added on April 25, 2011An Analysis of Simile
Virus writers have always tried to develop new methods to make malware detection more difficult. For instance, encryption was a natural step in virus evolution when scanners started to use ...
Document added on Jan. 28, 2011Future Defenses: Technologies to Stop the Unknown Attack
Current anti-virus software, combined with sensible filtering (such as quarantining all executable content from e-mail and Web traffic), firewalling, and religiously maintaining patches, serves as a reasonably good defense against ...
Document added on June 11, 2011The Viral Mind: Understanding the Motives of Malicious Coders
Over the years I have seen many people offer opinions on why virus writers do what they do. While I accept that many of these people have indeed spoken to ...
Document added on March 20, 2011Are You Infected? Detecting Malware Infection
Discussing all causes of system malfunction is not easy due to the diversity of systems in terms of hardware, software, firmware, and other configurations. The end of a discussion about ...
Document added on March 5, 2011Comparing E-mail Server Virus Protection Solutions, Part One
As someone who deals with anti-virus (AV) all the time, it surprises me that most people (and magazine reviewers as well) evaluate groupware AV products simply by installing on a ...
Document added on May 16, 2011