Blog Posts Tagged with "ISP"
U.S. Anti-Botnet Code of Conduct for ISPs Unveiled
March 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Today is an example of the importance of self-regulatory efforts to help improve the safety and performance of the internet. Sustainable solutions to contain bots must include all stakeholders in efforts to detect, prevent, and remediate these threats..."
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DNSChanger, March 8th and You
February 24, 2012 Added by:Eric Cissorsky
The deadline should be treated as an opportunity for your organization to learn and refine their processes and procedures. Like any other virus outbreak, this requires a coordinated effort between security professionals, systems administrators and other stakeholders...
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FCC Prompts ISPs to Adopt Code of Conduct Standards
February 24, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"If we fail to tackle these challenges, we will pay the price in the form of diminished safety, lost privacy, lost jobs, and financial vulnerability – billions of dollars potentially lost to digital criminals," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said...
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KPN Hack: Why was Customer Notification Delayed?
February 13, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The login credentials were stored in plain text in the repository that had been exposed, and that is absurd. This is a failure of the basic security procedures that should be recognized internationally, and is an offense for which there should be heavy penalties...
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Commercial DDoS Tools Offer a Competitive Advantage
February 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
With the growing availability of DDoS services being marketed directly to businesses, enterprises may increasingly find themselves under attack from competitors seeking to gain an advantage in the increasingly lucrative Internet marketplace...
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DDoS Attacks: An Excuse to Talk About IPv6 Security
February 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The switchover from the existing address protocol IPv4 to IPv6 will give attackers a great opportunity. With the introduction of the protocol a huge quantity of new internet addresses is available, and those addresses could be used as sources for DDoS attacks...
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How They Do IT: Spam Filters
February 09, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
The current volumes of spam email are extraordinary. Between 70% and 80% of all email sent are spam. As none of the current methods described here are completely effective, there is still scope for much further research in this area...
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Symantec: Chinese Connection to Attacks on Defense Contractors
January 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The data Symantec published reinforces evidence from an earlier investigation conducted by AlienVault, which described an orchestrated sprear-phishing campaign most likely targeting information on US drone technology which utilized malware-infected PDF documents to deliver the Sykipot payload...
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The Death of Antivirus Software
January 24, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Who needs an anti-virus? If I have a solid operating system like Ubuntu 11.10, IP tables, good control of the services on my notebook and practice safe email, why should I add additional layers of content security and feed the Symantec stock price?
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Mandatory Data Retention, Smart Meter Hacks and Silent SMS
January 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Silent SMS delivers a text message without the user being aware, but leads to the creation of a log with the cell phone company that reveals what cell phone towers the phone was closest to, revealing the phone’s location to help with tracking...
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Last Call for Input on ISP Botnet Intervention Proposal
November 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“In our country, we always have this debate whether the government should take a stronger hand or whether market forces are enough. We've run out of time to have that conversation, at least on some level. We have to get something done..."
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Balkanizing the Internet
November 02, 2011 Added by:Gabriel Bassett
The internet is really not one contiguous environment. Instead, due to the nature of service contracts and peering agreements, it's a mesh of interconnected information systems. These information systems are already undergoing a balkanization as we speak...
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Public/Private Collaboration to Fight Botnet Plague
October 11, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Botnets have increasingly put computer owners at risk. Researchers estimate that about 4 million new botnet infections occur each month. When a computer is infected by a botnet, personal information and communications can be monitored and Internet access can be exploited...
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Government Proposes ISP's Notify Victims of Botnets
October 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"While security risks on the Internet exist in many areas, one current widely exploited threat comes from `botnets.' Through this Request for Information and any follow-on work, the two Departments aim to reduce the harm that botnets inflict on the nation's computing environment..."
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Enterprise IT - Surprisingly Repetitive
August 09, 2011 Added by:Jason Remillard
The lines between ‘Internet’ and ‘Enterprise’ are blurry, but I am still amazed at the rapid speed of which this is occurring and the velocity of not just change, but the impact of this change on solutions and integrations for standard equations of IT such as Security...
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Surveillance or Security? New Wiretapping Technologies
July 21, 2011 Added by:Ben Rothke
Far too many books on privacy and surveillance are filled with hysteria and hyperbole and the threat of an Orwellian society. This book sticks to the raw facts and details the current state, that of insecure and porous networks around a surveillance society...
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