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03.09.10 - 05:30 PM
Dan Hubbard, myself, our awesome event managers, and the rest of the Websense crew have arrived home after attending and presenting at RSA 2010 in San Francisco. It was another successful year as the conference was very well attended and the presentations were quite informative.Read more »
03.09.10 - 04:43 PM
Nowadays it is not surprising when people's blogs are attacked, especially when the blog owner is a well-known person. No matter how frustrated or disappointed the bloggers are, attacks still continue. If you search "my blog was hacked" on Google, you get 4,230,000 results; searching "my blog was hacked again" returns 2,380,000 matches, and the number keeps increasing daily. What we can see from the these rough stats? Apparently nearly 44% of attacked blogs are lucky and aren't attacked again, but over 56% of attacked blogs repeat the previous nightmare.Read more »
An Evolution of Profit Driven Malware
03.09.10 - 07:24 AM
Malware is a gremlin of cyberspace. Digitally disguised and undeterred by borders or passports, it can be found anywhere in the world and China is no exception. China has now formed a malware industry chain from malware programming to malware spreading. Usually, after malware writers write malware, commercial agents on the Internet will sell access to it, sharing incredible profits with these malware writers.Read more »
Websense Security Labs presents today at RSA 2010
03.01.10 - 04:00 PM
Dan Hubbard, CTO, is speaking this morning at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit at RSA (http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/rsa2010.html). His presentation reviews the top threats in the cloud, impacts, and mitigation and defense strategies.
On Wednesday Stephan Chenette, Principal Security Researcher, will present a session titled "Down the Rabbit Hole: Linking the Malicious Web through statistical modeling". In the session, Stephan will review past and present mass compromise attacks and identify the malicious ecosystem that makes each attack unique.Read more »
Malicious Facebook App Propagates via Users
02.26.10 - 05:00 PM
The latest scam targeted at Facebook users hit the public today. The rogue app, which comes in many variants of "Who is checking your profile?", has improved its technique beyond the previous attacks we've seen. Rather than spreading a single app that Facebook can easily block, it tricks users into propagating the exploit by creating a brand new Facebook application that hands over the controls to the bad guys.Read more »
02.26.10 - 11:00 AM
Since the popularization of the Internet, spam has become a non-detachable part of our daily life. There is probably no user on the whole network without experience of spam. Every day, criminals invent new ways of delivering unsolicited information to end users. The rules of this game have been changing almost daily. As a result of strong technology developments and progressive approaches in companies like Websense, cyber criminals have been looking for more sophisticated ways to promote products and services for their well-paying customers.Read more »
Web proxy sites using obfuscation
02.25.10 - 05:27 PM
As some of you may know, Web proxy sites are a common tool used for anonymously surfing the Web or bypassing Web security filters. These sites are easy to find, set up, and share. However, not all Web proxies are the same.Read more »
What do a philologist and a lollipop have in common?
02.24.10 - 12:00 PM
Question: What do a philologist and a lollipop have in common?
Answer: LOL (if you don't get it, you will LOL when you see it below)Read more »
Top Secrets About Your Passwords
02.24.10 - 08:00 AM
Recent hacker activity highlights how insecure we are in the online world. Black hats keep focusing on collecting passwords in many different ways. Instead of breaking the computer security system or brute-forcing pass phrases, they use a variety of easier techniques to get our credentials.Read more »
02.23.10 - 04:55 PM
Our CTO, Dan Hubbard, will be speaking at RSA on today’s top threats within Cloud Computing, as part of the Cloud Security Alliance Summit this upcoming Monday (http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/rsa2010.html).Read more »
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