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Symantec: Cyber fraudsters look for low-hanging fruit

...e a little less, but we certainly see the regional attacks going on. You've got plenty of brands out there th... are money motivated, you can follow the future of attacks a lot more easily now. So our current forecast is that all you have to do is look where the money's ...

Brand protection in the age of customer engagement

...vely protect brand equity while also responding to attacks with greater speed and aggression. So what is a ...ted, blog style In the political arena, spurious attacks have been made against Barack Obama alleging that he went to school in a madrassa in Indonesia. On...

New MailFoundry product fights latest spam techniques

...net e-mail harvesting and brute force dictionary attacks . The company's chief executive said the new RedL...ts MessageIQ anti-spam engine, defeats botnet spam attacks with no false positives and realtime detection capabilities. David C. Troup, CEO and founder of Mai...

Internet security is big business for Wisconsin Rapids firm

... of organized crime. More frequent random invasive attacks have given way to fewer targeted attacks, yet they still cause billions of dollars in damage. In combating today's threats, Saydjari gives equal weight to sensible policy and technology solutions because both have to work in unison. In his view, tec...

MailFoundry offers new spam protection products

...t quickly can adapt to new, unknown styles of spam attacks as they happen. Meanwhile, the recent upgrades to MailFoundry's 2100 and 4100 anti-spam appliances include new motherboards, faster central processing units, and chasis with a smaller rack footprint, the company indicated. The 2100 and 4100 models ...

Company issues warning on outsourced software

...the nation to cyber terrorism caused by life cycle attacks buried deep within the millions of lines of softwa...using outsourced software," he stated. Life cycle attacks occur when just one line of code out of millions of lines is rigged to open vulnerabilities within t...

Wisconsin Rapids firm will challenge student security skills

...ent teams in an Illinois security contest. "Cyber attacks are increasing in complexity and sophistication, s...thetical company networks secure against continued attacks by the "Red Team," which Cyber Defense Agency will assemble and manage. The University of Illinois a...

IT critical in pandemic response, but many are not paying attention

...d come along, be they natural disasters, terrorist attacks or something else unexpected. Everyone unprepared, especially private sector McGee said the public sector is somewhat more prepared than private organizations, mostly due to greater awareness promoted by public agencies such as the World Health O...

Giuliani will keynote RedPrairie Corporation's user conference

...cclaimed for his management of the city during the attacks of September 11, 2001, including being named Person of the Year by Time magazine and knighted by the Queen of England....

Radical changes predicted for IT groups

...s such as the increases in fuels prices, terrorist attacks or natural disasters could all have a significant impact on IT spending in the coming year. This year's conference them was "Rapid Results for Rapid ROI" from IT professionals and their projects. Along with the oft-heard mantra that IT executives ne...

Fiserv to host risk mitigation seminars for bankers

...fraud, money laundering, identity theft, malicious attacks and more. The seminars also will offer the latest strategies to stay up-to-date with government regulations and security mandates. Discussion topics will include the USA PATRIOT Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how the banking industry...

Tech Digest: MailFoundry; API Software

...olinus has a team of human editors who review spam attacks in real-time and create Spam Profiles designed to block specific spam without creating false positives. These updates are automatically distributed to MailFoundry appliances worldwide every five minutes. Awards given to API Software customers Hart...

Probe into gas gouging may educate Americans about pressures on oil supply

...remium." That trend began with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and has continued through the Iraq war. Many oil-producing nations are subject to supply interruptions. Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela are prone to political unrest, labor strikes or government clampdowns. There ha...

UW engineering career fair sees highest attendance in four years

...said this number dropped off sharply following the attacks of Sept. 11, however, reflecting the rise in unemployment that came as doubts in the economy grew. The fair recovered as the economy did, however, thanks to a stronger marketing effort to bring the university to the attention of more companies. Draw...

When the 'send' button brings trouble

...nd privacy While Hansen and Stampley credit virus attacks and security breaches such as those suffered by Bank of America with increasing the awareness of keeping company networks secure against malicious e-mails, there is still a lot to be done. "This (network security) is, in some cases, coming up to the...

Western way of life is under attack from jihad sub-culture

...e G8 summit in Gleneagle, Scotland, which made the attacks seem all the more barbaric given the humanitarian ...tizens of all Western nations must recognize these attacks for what they are an attack on our way of life by a tiny, violent and demented segment of Muslim so...

To find solid security candidates, look beyond tech certificates

... of system security vulnerabilities, network-based attacks and their mitigation In-depth knowledge of common security protocols Excellent organizational, written and verbal skills Results oriented This company has focused on the technical skills but hasnt detailed what it needs from a compliance standpo...

Ready to leave? Why you shouldn't give two weeks' notice

... Did you know that many denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are initiated by disgruntled employees? If the company you're working at doesn't have that stringent of a policy, they are leaving themselves open for attack. That's definitely not adhering to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or any compliance policy that focu...

UW-Madison rat experiment could lead to stem-cell treatment for ALS

... United States are diagnosed with ALS. The disease attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord; as motor neurons progressively die, the brain cannot initiate and control muscle movement. The UW-Madison researchers tackled several technical barriers trying to ensure that the progenitor cells correctly g...

After a successful attack on your computer systems, then what?

... selling point. Companies must also watch out for attacks that don't even touch their computer systems. Mark McLane, CEO of Madison-based NameProtect , said the Internet has made certain types of fraudulent schemes much easier. NameProtect watches for misused brands, including consumer fraud based on respe...

Frying spam for the masses

...ositive rate. Solinus' team of editors review spam attacks in real time and create spam profiles designed to block specific spam without creating false positives. Updates are automatically distributed to MailFoundry appliances worldwide every five minutes. "Until now, products with this technology have been...

Science in motion

...rogressive, always-fatal neurological disease that attacks the neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. "It is the first report of making human embryonic stem cells into motor neurons, so it's clearly the right tissue and the right cell type we're looking for in ALS [research]," said Lucie Bru...

OpGen completes $5 million investment round

...dies suggested it could increase the risk of heart attacks in some people, said Dan Broderick, a managing director of investment firm Mason Wells who is on OpGens board. Had they used our technology in their clinical trial, we might have been able to predict what patients were likely to have heart problem...

UW computer scientists tout achievements and explain industry shortcomings

...iruses (code that infects files), worms (code that attacks computers directly) or trojans (which look like benign software). "A lot of organizations think, 'If we have a firewall, we're fine,'" he said. But that may not be enough, especially in the case of trojans, named after the legendary Trojan Horse, wh...

TeraMEDICA offers seamless sharing of digital medical images

...aging through tough times Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, money dried up in the venture capital community, and TeraMEDICA reduced its staff of 30 down to 20 people, then later to 14 people, all within a years time. That was a very tough thing to do, Hanna says. We had a choice: manag...

Naming that thing... again?

...s in creative space. Theres nothing to fear, these attacks of mild lunacy is what ad agencies are made of. Wow, this means there is now an open season for hunting down a new name. Without a name, there is no calling-device. No customer will ever refer to it or even talk about it. Basically, no name, no stor...

NameProtect and MasterCard unite to combat online fraud, phishing

...rding to the Anti-Phishing Working Group , unique attacks on companies are increasing 110 percent per month,... stated, representing 70.1 percent of all reported attacks in May. It has gotten much worse since the fall, said Peter Cassidy, research manager at AWPG. Firs...

Talent Mismanagement

...middle and senior management positions. The book attacks many founts of conventional wisdom that dominate government social and education polices and corporate talent management strategies. A primary target of their critique is the War for Talent mindset that they assert is based on vestigial thinking asso...

Life Sciences: Wisconsin- The Smart Choice

...res the skills of bioinformaticists. The anthrax attacks of late 2001 put the scientific and public health communities in the spotlight and revealed considerable gaps in the nations ability to respond to uncommon biological agents. The Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Biopreparedness and Infectiou...

Browser-based attacks may pose next big IT security nightmare

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. - Browser-based attacks are surging and may pose the next significant secu... percent were plagued by one or more browser-based attacks in the last six months. Thats up from 25 percent in last years survey. Browser-based attacks use ...

Putting spam back in the can wont be all that easy

...jurisdictional confusion. Fighting spam and virus attacks has become a big business within the even larger Internet business. Some Wisconsin companies are among those at the forefront of technological innovation. Investors are betting that consumer demand for more efficient E-commerce will make those compan...

Seeds for high-tech economy are being planted, but growth will take time

...com crash, investor retrenchment and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, battered the economy. The tech indicators for 2003 cannot help but improve. At the same time, the latest economic tracking report by Competitive Wisconsin Inc. drives home a message that cannot be repeated often enough: For Wiscon...

Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies

... a nation still haunted by the memory of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and more likely to react (or ov..., as well as biological, chemical and radiological attacks around the world. Up to a dozen agencies can communicate at once via the wall, with details projecte...

The Calm Before the Storm: Hot New Firms and Technologies

... that this is one of the largest denial-of-service attacks on record . . . Gateway announced its plans to buy eMachines, a player in the retail PC market. The computer giant says it will pay $200 million for the low-end retailer. Gateway has been making a push into the consumer electronics market, but still ...

OpGen Database Helps to Reduce Bioterrorist Threat

...logical agents that could be used for bioterrorist attacks has led to the creation of a genome database map by OpGen Inc. , a Madison based bio-informatics company that specializes in optical mapping of DNA. One of the most infectious bacteria, Francisella tularensis, is a causative agent of Tularemia, a...

Why Wisconsin Lags Behind the U.S. and Minnesota

...preceded and was exacerbated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and then further adversely impacted by the stock market swoons. Wisconsin is best characterized as a leading manufacturing state. But, after leading the nation for a decade in manufacturing employment growth, Wisconsin has lost more than 64,000 man...

Cisco Chairman Praises University Research

...of methodologies, your ability to respond to these attacks improves." New products will be driven by the expanding speed of data communications. High-speed connections, the profusion of wireless networking and optical as part of the infrastructure will all create new market niches, according to Morgridge. ...

Are You Prepared To Lose Your Identity?

...frequency, variety and severity, of these computer attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, a panel of security experts told those attending the August meeting of eInnovate. On the very day computer worms attacked innumerable computers around the world, the message to this group wasnt startling. Many att...

Viruses, Worms, and Exploits

...ecurity and patch management. The first wave of attacks came via the blaster worm, which took advantage of...l is very important. The impact of several recent attacks could have been greatly reduced by blocking certain ports at the perimeter. At the very least, this...

UW-Madison Gets Federal Biodefense Funds

...any other public health crisis since the terrorist attacks of 2001," HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said. "These new grants add to this effort and will not only better prepare us for a bioterrorism attack, but will also enhance our ability to deal with any public health crisis, such as SARS and West Nile virus...

WTN Exclusive Interview with Josh Heling

... evolution and successfulness of automated network attacks worms, viruses, etc. It pays neve r to underestimate this threat. The SQLSlammer worm took down a 10,000+ node network in mere minutes. WTN: And on the other hand, what disappoints you most? JH: The success of many viruses is due simply to s...