Network World – Computer attacks and data breaches happen every day, but every now and then there is an epic attack that people remember long after the mess is cleaned up. The RSA breach of 2011 is one such example. An attacker was able to gain access to privileged user credentials in order to access a server and…
Dozens of Israel’s largest companies agree: to prevent viruses outbreaks, make sure they never get to users in the first place. All you need to know about malware, according to Itay Glick, CEO of Israeli cyber-security start-up Votiro, is that 91% of it is delivered by email or through downloads. “Hackers and crackers have had overwhelming success by…
Security providers are developing technology to strip out, or render unusable, any potential code in popular file formats. Security firms have typically taken one of two approaches to protecting their customers: detect bad code and block it, or validate wanted applications and allow them to run. Yet determining whether a file, script, or executable binary is malicious…
