Your network is constantly under attack from spam, trojans, viruses, phishing, bots, hackers and more. Here are just some of the solutions that we use to keep our client's networks safe.
 
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Stay informed about wireless internet security. Free wireless connections can pose a number of risks to your privacy and compromise private information stored in your smartphones, laptops and tablets. Click here to read more about why free wifi can be dangerous.
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In its third-quarter report, online security company McAfee said Wednesday that average daily malware growth has reached its highest level ever, with an average of 60,000 new ones identified each day.
Santa Clara-based McAfee (NYSE:MFE) said that is almost quadruple the 2007 amount.
At the same time, spam levels decreased in volume this quarter, both globally and in local geographies. Spam hit a two-year low this quarter.
Read more: Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal |
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As the Underground Economy has grown and flourished, cybercriminals have developed new methods for tricking victims. Their scams are amazingly lucrative, with profits totaling in the billions per year. Many perpetrators hail from Eastern Europe where cybercrime is rampant and considered business as usual. Canadian pharmacy spam, fake antivirus and others are part of a well-organized business model based on the concept of affiliate networking. In the case of cybercrime, products sold via affiliate marketing may be highly profitable, although highly illegal—such as click fraud and selling credit card details. In this report covering January to June 2010, we examine various cybercrime incidents, the criminal’s use of multiple tools such as botnets, and look at threat trends and activity currently causing, and likely to continue to cause the most pain, cost and disruption to connected users across the world.
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Last week, we saw the re-emergence of another new trojan that is disguising itself as Microsoft’s no-cost antimalware program Microsoft Security Essentials. This imposter is known in the technical world of antimalware combat as “Win32/FakePAV”. FakePAV is a rogue that displays messages that imitate Microsoft Security Essentials threat reports in order to entice the user into downloading and paying for a rogue security scanner. The rogue persistently terminates numerous processes such as Windows Registry Editor, Internet Explorer, Windows Restore and other utilities and applications.
Before we get to the detailed view of how this trojan works, we want the message to be very clear: This software is a fake. Do not be fooled by this scam. This malware can potentially cause consumers and small business owners harm. Microsoft Security Essentials can be downloaded and used at no cost by users running genuine Windows (Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/). So anything mimicking Microsoft Security Essentials but asking for any sort of payment is clearly up to no good.
Read the whole story at the Windows Team Blog |
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Microsoft on Monday released an emergency patch against the Windows shortcut link (.LNK), aka Windows Shell, vulnerability. With the out-of-band release, Microsoft also disclosed Office documents at risk from the "no user input required" shortcut icon attack.
All "supported" editions of Windows got a patch, "including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2," according to Christopher Budd, senior security response communications manager at Microsoft. He recommends companies deploy the update "as soon as possible, to help protect their computers from criminal attacks seeking to exploit the .LNK vulnerability."
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