The News Review:
- Cbeyond Enhances Messaging Platform by Deploying IronPort Anti-Spam…
- US largest source of bad bots
- LiveOffice Names Seasoned Executives to Sales and Marketing Posts
- Leading market research firm ranks Fortinet No. 1 in worldwide UTM…
- Linux: A Tempting Target for Malware?
Cbeyond Enhances Messaging Platform by Deploying IronPort Anti-Spam…
sys-con.com – Mar 25, 2008
IronPort Systems is a business unit of Cisco Systems and a leading provider of enterprise spam, virus and spyware protection. According to IronPort, global spam volumes have doubled this year to 120 billion messages daily. IronPort’s Anti-Spam solution is a multi-layered spam defense that provides the most secure protection. It addresses a full range of known threats including spam, phishing, and zombie attacks, as well as hard-to-detect low volume, short-lived email threats. In addition, IronPort Anti-Spam identifies new and evolving blended threats such as spam attacks distributing malicious content through a download URL or an executable file or script.
US largest source of bad bots
The Age – Mar 25, 2008
“Some countries have better infrastructure than others or arebetter able to patch their systems,” says Robert Malan, the founderand chief technology officer of Arbor Networks. Often networks of thousands of compromised computers arecontrolled centrally by virus writers. These so-called “botnetworks” can send spam, infect other systems and launchdenial-of-service attacks against legitimate and grey-marketbusinesses such as online casinos. Bot nets are not new but they continue to cause headaches forinternet carriers, governments and businesses. “Millions of endpoints are (still) being auto-compromised byrobot programs,” says Mr Malan. “(They become) resources fornefarious activity. A high percentage of spam email is now sent via bot networkscomprised of hacked computers belonging to home users andlegitimate businesses.
LiveOffice Names Seasoned Executives to Sales and Marketing Posts
sys-con.com – Mar 25, 2008
With a substantial foothold infinancial services, the company’s emailarchiving and compliance solutions meet the most complex regulatory andcorporate requirements for businesses of all sizes, in any industry. Inaddition, more than 7,500 small businesses trust their email hosting andmanagement to the experts at LiveOffice. About LiveOfficeLiveOffice is the leading provider of managed messaging services forbusinesses, including email and instant message archiving, compliance ande-discovery solutions, spam and virus protection, Hosted Exchange 2007 andHosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The company processes and protectsmillions of messages each day, while helping organizations streamlineoperations and comply with a variety of regulations. Founded in 1998 andheadquartered in Torrance, Calif. , LiveOffice serves a premier roster ofclients, including Fortune 100 companies, and has a customer-retention rateof 99 percent. For more information, call (800) 251.
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Leading market research firm ranks Fortinet No. 1 in worldwide UTM…
ameinfo.com – Mar 25, 2008
Megha Kumar, Research Analyst for Software – MEA Region at IDC Middle East & Africa said, ‘Companies seeking one stop solutions to protect their infrastructure will contribute to the growth in popularity of UTM vendors such as Fortinet in the region. The Gulf States Security Market has seen an aggressive year on year growth of nearly 60% in the region’. Delivered via its flagship family of FortiGate appliances, Fortinet provides a flexible platform that enables enterprises and service providers of all sizes to consolidate critical security technology and services to maximize network protection and reduce total cost of ownership. These ASIC-accelerated security appliances integrate essential security applications and services, including anti-virus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet’s FortiGuard™ Network, which provides continuous updates that help ensure protection against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic – around the clock and around the world. FortiGate appliances are complemented by an array of messaging, management and analysis systems and end-point security solutions… The Gulf States Security Market has seen an aggressive year on year growth of nearly 60% in the region’. Delivered via its flagship family of FortiGate appliances, Fortinet provides a flexible platform that enables enterprises and service providers of all sizes to consolidate critical security technology and services to maximize network protection and reduce total cost of ownership. These ASIC-accelerated security appliances integrate essential security applications and services, including anti-virus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping. All FortiGate systems are kept up to date automatically by Fortinet’s FortiGuard™ Network, which provides continuous updates that help ensure protection against the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, other unwanted network traffic – around the clock and around the world. FortiGate appliances are complemented by an array of messaging, management and analysis systems and end-point security solutions.
Linux: A Tempting Target for Malware?
TechNewsWorld – Mar 25, 2008
Servers, by their nature, are rarely turned off and often do not run sufficient protection against malware attacks. This makes the Linux systems ideal candidates for the role of controller in a botnet — the central control point when creating and managing an army of infected computers, known as “bots” or “zombies. ” Whereas Linux systems are most often found to be running as servers, Windows machines are more frequently used at home or as desktops in an office, and these computers are regularly switched off. This makes them less attractive as controllers, but ideal as bots or zombies, according to Sophos experts. Hackers typically gain control via weak Secure Shell passwords or other vulnerabilities… If the virus is executed by a privileged user then it may attempt to create a backdoor on the system, according to McCourt. This is achieved by opening a socket and listening for a particular packet containing details about the origin of the attacker and the command the attacker would like to execute on the system. Attackers can gain access to a compromised computer and use it for their own purposes such as sending spam. Linux CultureLinux users shouldn’t necessarily view the Sophos warning as a rush to judgment that the Linux platform is becoming less safe relative to the Windows platform. However, Linux users have to be careful that they do not let down their guard. “It is all too common to hear a Linux user say he or she couldn’t possibly have anything [viruses].
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