The News Review:
- Advice on Twitter spam protection from BitDefender
- Immunet: Are they the first to offer cloud-based Malware protection?
- Safeguarding Against Data Breaches
- Readers to Regulators: Keep Your Mitts off the Net
- Botnet traffic bounds back 90% within 48 hours of ISP shutdown
Advice on Twitter spam protection from BitDefender
SourceWire (press release)
BitDefender offers advice on how Twitter users can avoid falling prey to some of the most common tricks regularly employed by hackers. ne of the biggest spam related security problems facing Twitter are the many link-shortening services utilized for hyperlink posting. Users are limited to 140 characters per tweet; these URL-shortening services allow tweeters to post a longer link under such tight character limitations. Hackers use these link-shortening services to disguise malicious links. Some infections could be easily prevented by allowing users to see the real URL before clicking on it. BitDefender?s senior antispam researcher Catalin Cosoi says ?Another big problem is the fact that search engines such as Google index Twitter profiles.
Immunet: Are they the first to offer cloud-based Malware protection?
The Tech Herald
However while the point is valid as many vendors have slapped the cloud brand on an existing product just to keep buzz-word worthy traction the notion of community based threat detection or “Collective” protection is nothing new. \nTake for example SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter is a community based spam protection that harnesses in Friedrichs’ own words “community-based protection” to block spam based on how community members flag email. Cloudmark’s anti-Spam application Cloudmark Desktop does the exact same thing only slightly better. \nAs mentioned Norton Insight uses a community-based strategy for protection which allows the Norton scanning engine to focus not on known files but the ones that are potentially malicious. If an application within Norton’s Community is marked as legit or after time is simply harmless it is marked as trusted. This speeds up Norton’s scanning while at the same time uses a collective layer of protection for other Norton Community members.
Safeguarding Against Data Breaches
Forbes
Such moves would also help to ensure that you never have to see your company’s name included in a data breach story on Forbes. com on your iPhone as you’re riding the train to work. Here’s what we know: Spammers and phishers continue to distribute attacks mostly through botnets and.
Readers to Regulators: Keep Your Mitts off the Net
Internet Evolution
But while these regulations appear to be fairly tame and targeted at specific Internet ills our poll results suggests that Internet Evolution readers are all-too-aware of the fine and vague line between keeping the Internet “clean” and “safe” (words left up for interpretation) and full-on censorship. (In fact in a poll last August 40 percent of our readers deemed “.
Botnet traffic bounds back 90% within 48 hours of ISP shutdown
Ars Technica
With a new variety of botnets though this method is becoming increasingly ineffective. The August report from.
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