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25 Jan 2012Complacency, meet APT – How basic oversights lead to complex malware infections
Low-hanging fruit – that is, the missing patches, default passwords, lack of full disk encryption and so on present in practically every environment – is something I’ve ranted about time and again because there’s no reason to have it on your network. Why? Well, for one thing, rogue insiders may just exploit it for ill-gotten gains. But even worse, low-hanging fruit can be the target of malware exploitations that you’re ...
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20 Jan 2012
The role of IT in fighting today’s malware
It seems ever since I wrote my paper The Malware Threat Businesses are Ignoring and How Damballa Failsafe Fits In I’m seeing more and more vendors jump on the bandwagon. Today’s malware impacts everything from the network infrastructure to the endpoint and everyone wants a piece of the pie. I know the market is growing so I can’t blame people for wanting to capitalize on the opportunity.Vendors aside, what is ...
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