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This product includes the usual suspects of firewall, IPS/IDS and anti-virus, but it also brings in some unusual features as well. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. Security vendor PC Tools has slammed security vendors that continue to release ‘top’ threat list reports claiming they are mostly volume based rankings which are no longer adequate indicators. "Clickjacking" has the potential to affect any internet browser, using a bogus button to lure users to malicious sites. Expect more malware, unwelcome email, and social engineering threats this season. Despite initially maintaining that the Safari for Windows "carpet bomb" issue was not a security vulnerability, Apple has decided to release a patch. Adobe recently patched a vulnerability in its Flash Player that is being actively exploited to infect machines with gaming trojans, researchers said Wednesday. Counterfeit networking equipment could jeopardize the security of U.S. military and other government systems, according to an FBI PowerPoint presentation posted on a website covering "alternative” topics. Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. Remote and branch workers are judged to be the highest security risks by IT managers, but sales staff are considered the worst offenders in consuming network bandwidth for non-work related activities, according to recent research by network optimisation firm Blue Coat Systems.. New measures implemented in section 6.6 of the PCI standard, do nothing to address the threat of insiders. Credant Technologies' new tech will shore up organisations' defences A new BotArmy, named "Kraken," reportedly twice as big as Storm, has been identified. The notorious Pushdo botnet has topped Fortinet’s top ten most reported threats list for March, claiming 13.5 percent of all malware activity for the month. Experts believe that a rise in security threats to businesses also endangers vital infrastructure Hard drive security firm DriveSentry has released a new version of its namesake flagship product, featuring new technology designed to detect more accurately which applications and files can access users' systems.
PC Tools has launched a global threat analysis website that provides users with detailed information on suspected security risks in minutes. Terrorists may be using virtual worlds such as Second Life to meet and exchange ideas, security experts warned today.. Mozilla officials are investigating a new vulnerability in Firefox that could be exploited by attackers to steal files from a victim's machine. For the first time botnets have leapfrogged distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as the top operational threat to internet service providers (ISPs), new figures suggest.