A fascinating look at the evolution of the Sobig worm, with compelling evidence pointing towards its hidden roots as a spam device, presented by Joe Stewart, GCIH, Senior Intrusion Analyst at LURHQ Corporation. Joe's research will cause you to look at viruses and spam as malignant twins with the common goal of upsetting your Internet experience.
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MessageLabs Intelligence Data for June 2003 Indicates Email Represents an Increasingly Serious and Complex Risk to the Enterprise
Highlights:
- Nearly 60-70% of spam is now sent through “hijacked” open-proxy computers
- June saw viruses increase by 13.6% over the previous month
- In June, the global ratio of spam in email was 1 in 2.6 or 34.4%
- In the U.S. Marketing, Media, Publishing and Retail industries saw the largest increases in spam in June
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Discovered on June 25, 2003, the Sobig.E worm spreads via email as an attached ZIP file, allowing it to bypass many filtering products which, by default, focus on executable file types. A backdoor routine leaves infected systems open to further compromise.
Full Story | SoBig a spammer?
Update 09/18/03: Sobig.F worm discovered: Mass-mailing worm far more potent than previous variants.
10:49 AM #
Imagine if everytime your children tried to access the Internet, they were redirected to a porn site. That's the scenario being played out in homes as JS.Fortnight worms its way onto systems via email.
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IBM's End-To-End Security Conference, August 25-29, 2003,
Miami Beach, Florida
As Information Technology increases in importance, so do the number of
threats directed against this critical infrastructure. A comprehensive
security strategy is essential to protecting your vital data and ensuring
continuity of operations. The SecureWorld Conference provides over 100
sessions to help you assess, protect, detect, correct, and recover from
security concerns with end-to-end security solutions.
01:33 PM #
Worried about rogue code on websites? Tired of fighting pop-up adds? Take advantage of included security configurations in Internet Explorer to achieve a higher degree of safety while browsing. Best of all, following these security steps will stop annoying pop-ups cold, prevent drive-by downloads, and keep your startup page intact.
12:28 PM #
An article by George V. Hulme, InformationWeek, takes a closer look at a promising new technology developed by startup Trusted Network Technologies. Providing two-way authentication at the packet level, TNT confronts the problem of unauthorized access while alleviating the cumbersome management challenges presented by traditional authentication systems.
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The list above includes only articles published after June 16, 2003. This link provides a complete list of all articles published on the site, regardless of date, in reverse chronological order.
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