More Security Attacks Motivated By Greed, Symantec Reports
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There&#39;s good news and bad news on the security front. Internet security company Symantec Corp. on Monday released its Internet Security Threat Report, which provides a six-month snapshot
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Symantec has announced that several of its firewalls and gateways are vulnerable to denial of service attacks, and has released firmware to fix them.
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As part of its service, Symantec will use a global network of probes and decoy e-mail accounts to collect, analyze and identify new phishing scams targeted at customers that use its Online Fraud Management services.
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec researchers are working on a pair of projects to give Norton users a better idea of whether the Web sites they visit or the files they download are trustworthy. "We're actually looking into reputation-based security systems, both for Web sites and for files," said Stephen Trilling, vice president of Symantec Research Labs. The projects have been quietly under development since the latter part of last year, he said. Although the area of reputation-based security is relatively new, there are already a number of companies that use the technology because it is considered a promising technique for thwarting previously unknown threats. McAfee's SiteAdvisor, for example, scours the Web and runs tests on Web sites to see if they do thingsÂ such asÂ serve up malicious code or spam visitors. And GoogleÂ recently opened up access to its blacklist of malicious Web sites, which the search giant generates by searching the Internet in a similar fashion. Though Trilling declined to talk about specifics, he said that Symantec has some new ideas on how to better warn users of suspicious Web pages. "We certainly are looking initially at protecting people from malicious threats," he said. "That's our primary goal." The file-based evaluations could be derived from data generated by Symantec users, he said. "The challenge here is you can't simply ask people what was their experience with this file," he said. "You need some sort of automated way to derive reputation information from people's patterns of downloading." Symantec Labs has created another Web security technology, called Canary, that blocks sites from downloading malicious code. Canary is expected to ship with Norton's next refresh of its client security products, due later this year, but it is separate from the Web- and file-rating systems, Trilling said. "Canary is not based on leveraging any desktop-voting or reputation-based system at all," he said. No decision has yet been made on whether to move the reputation-based projects into Symantec's products, but the Web reputation systems is further along in development, Trilling said. Symantec's estimated 50 million anti-virus software users give it an advantage when it comes to generating reliable reputation data, said Adam O'Donnell, a senior research scientist with Cloudmark, which sells a reputation-based e-mail filtering system. "The challenge for Symantec is going to be absorbing all the various inputs and issuing a response in a timely fashion."
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The volume of worms and viruses is increasing, but the rate of successful attacks has dropped, according to Symantec.
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A distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted Web-based systems at credit card payment processing firm Authorize.NetÂ earlier this week is indicative of a sharp increase in the number of cyberattacks being targeted at specific companies and driven by profit motives on the part of the hackers who launch them.
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- Security software maker Symantec Corp.   said it sued a large network of distributors selling  counterfeit Symantec software, and sought over $15 million in  damages.
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Symantec says U.S. agencies need to better protect their cyber assets, echoing concerns raised last year by U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Bot software that turns PCs into zombies spreads via holes in Symantec and Microsoft products.
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Symantec surveyed security issues from bots to phishing and declared China's PCs the most infected.
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The security threats against business-technology systems continue to multiply. Not only do malicious worms and viruses such as Blaster and Bagle continue to wreak havoc, but security pros
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Hackers have increased their attempts to hijack PCs since the start of the year, with up to 75,000 being compromised daily, according to Symantec.
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Symantec issued an alert after exploit code was posted to the Securityfocus Web site. The alert raised the urgency and severity of an earlier warning about the security holes in ARCServe Backup versions 9.01 through 11.5 SP1, as well as CA's Business Protection Suite software.
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There are still many ways attackers can exploit Windows Vista and leave users open to threats, according to a Symantec study.
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A new variant of the MyDoom virus is designed to launch a denial-of-service attack against antivirus software maker Symantec, according to security firm Sophos.
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Symantec Corp.&#39;s Security Response service on Friday confirmed that unpatched Windows vulnerabilities could pose a serious risk for exploits via malicious Web pages and e-mail messages.
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Symantec Corp. sent out what turned to be a false alarm thought its early warning system late Friday, warning companies that an Internet-crippling attack was under way.