Security Response WeblogSecurity ResponseTop Data Protection Myths- September 5, 2008 Plenty has been said about the challenges that exist today for IT and data center managers. I will spare you the typical descriptions about the increase in mission-critical data, plain old exploding volumes of data, and data distributed across a dispersed workforce. We're all well aware of these issues.https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=data_loss_prevention&message.i... Month of the Virus- September 4, 2008 In August, the "Internet" category of spam showed an increase of nine percent from July and now makes up 27% of all spam messages. This increase is detailed in the Symantec State of Spam Report for September, which will be released today. The escalation of Internet spam can be attributed to the prevalence of malicious code being sent around via spam emails over the past month.https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=spam&message.id=115#M115 Flash Spammer- September 3, 2008 The theme to Flash Gordon is going through my head. You can't hear it, but I can. He's the savior of the universe, king of the impossible, and he'll save ev'ry one of us.https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=spam&message.id=114#M114 Misleading Application Targets Free Online Services- September 3, 2008 We have seen in recent times that malicious binaries are spreading through social engineering attack vectors like spam emails, phishing, and social networking sites. This time we have found that attackers have begun targeting free online service sites and our example is based on Google Notebookhttps://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=security_risks&message.id=49#M... |