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ESET issues another warning against a newly detected Win32/Stuxnet worm

July 20, 2010 - 4:19am | Fraud | News
ESET issues another warning against a newly detected Win32/Stuxnet worm

ESET has issued a warning against a worm dubbed Win32/Stuxnet exploiting a vulnerability in Windows® Shell. The virus has been detected by ESET as LNK/Autostart.A. It is used in targeted attacks to penetrate SCADA systems, especially in the United States and Iran. SCADA are supervisory and monitoring systems used in many industries, for instance in power engineering. 


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20% of IT managers don’t emphasize IT security

June 18, 2009 - 2:23am | Figures | News
20% of IT managers don’t emphasize IT security

IT managers survey has revealed that 20pc cheat in order to pass security audits. The survey “Reality Bytes” was conducted by Tufin Technologies among 151 IT security professionals. It discovered that 63% of them check their firewalls between 3 months to a year. 9% never check them at all. 51% of companies labeled their firewall rules as ‘a mess”.


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Exploits in Linux and Windows used by hackers to steal financial data

April 27, 2009 - 9:44am | Fraud | News
Exploits in Linux and Windows used by hackers to steal financial data

Ed Skoudis, a senior security consultant for InGuardians, and Johannes Ullrich, the CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center, say hackers continue to penetrate many more company networks than administrators admit. They offer a list of the most effective exploits used to gain entry.


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