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Over 45,000 New Malware Threats Discovered in 2005

According to Panda Software, in 2005 more than 123 new malware threats were discovered every day. The company said that in total more than 45,000 thousand new malware threats were discovered last year. The figures represent a 240 percent...

Recent Security Alerts as of January 17, 2006

Microsoft (7)
Red Hat (13)
Novell (7)
Oracle (0)
SUN (4)

Security Alert History

There has been an interesting development in malware known as worms. There are currently two worms—The Oomp and Inqtana—that were specifically designed to damage Macintosh OS X. Your best bet to protect yourself is to keep virus definitions up to date and firewalls configured correctly to limit the so called “attack surface” of your organization. This practice will help guard against Trojans that appear harmless but that later cause havoc and backdoor malware threats that can steal confidential information.

Malware = Malicious Software

A More Secure Future
In his keynote address at the RSA Conference 2006, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates shared Microsoft’s immediate and future plans to achieve a more secure digital future, where interconnected networks worldwide...

Administering the Administrators
In many organizations there are multiple network administrators that either do not need or should not have access to network resources that are not meant to be under their control. This limitation is good practice to help protect data and...

It’s Me, and Here’s My Proof
No matter what kinds of technological or procedural advancements occur, certain principles of computer science will remain—especially those concerning information security. Among all the competing claims of security vendors that their latest...

Why You Should Disable the Administrator Account
Managing the built-in administrator account often causes problems for IT teams, especially the account BUILTIN\Administrator, also known as NT AUTHORITY\Administrator, the account with relative identifier (RID) 500. This account exists by default...

Phishing Sites Increase Significantly in December 2005
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published its Phishing Activity Trends Report for December 2005. According to data gathered by the group, over 7,197 new phishing sites were created in December 2005 and the group recorded 15,244 unique...

Improving Your Computer Usage Safety
The amount of malicious software on the Web has increased greatly recently. Here are some guidelines to help protect yourself: Practice Safe Browsing. Avoid unfamiliar or untrusted Web sites, especially Web sites that advertise...

How To Nip A Little More Spam in The Bud
Most spam filtering systems do a good job of tagging spam, but many can be tweaked for better detection rates and better performance. Recently a security expert ran a test on more than 254,000 email messages to see which filters work...

Data Security -- It's a Storage Problem
2005 was a rough year for people worried about the security of their personal information. In compliance with California\'s law mandating that companies reveal "unauthorized acquisition of [data] that compromises the security, confidentiality, or...

Firefox or IE7?
Customers became so fed up with the security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 6 that many pundits rallied to leave the browser for an alternative such as Mozilla Firefox. Yet even beyond the feature-centric decision points—such as which...

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