Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:22 am

Security threat management: Mitigate malicious network traffic

Framingham (ip-192.com): A continually evolving breed of unknown, persistent, targeted, and adaptive security threats is driving the expansion of the security services threat intelligence market. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), this emerging predictive security market is forecast to grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014 as organizations [...]

Infected PC’s: Google sends warning message

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Users of Windows machines should be on the watch for emails from Google: The Internet search and cloud computing company started alerting hundreds of thousands Google Search users that their machine might have been infected by malware. Google says that it can detect certain types of malware based on network traffic flow [...]

Email attacks: It's personal now

San Jose (ip-192.com): Cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of personalized attacks with a greater financial impact on targeted organizations, a new security report from Cisco finds. The targeted attacks focus on intellectual property theft by deploying malware directed at a specific user or group of [...]

Gartner: Layered approach to protect IT

Stamford (ip-192.com): By 2014, 15 percent of enterprises will adopt layered fraud prevention techniques for their internal systems to compensate for weaknesses inherent in using only authentication methods Gartner, Inc. says. Multiple layers of fraud prevention or authentication must be employed to defend against today's attacks and those that have yet to appear, the IT [...]