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Ellen Messmer
Ellen Messmer

Ellen Messmer

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Recent articles by Ellen Messmer

Trusteer service eradicates malware on banking customer PCs

July 29, 2010

Trusteer is taking its online banking security services a step further and will start removing malware that it finds trying to interfere with bank customers' financial transactions.

Massive check-fraud botnet operation tied to Russia

July 28, 2010

Check fraud is an old-fashioned kind of crime, but a criminal ring with ties to Russia is using modern cybercrime techniques, including botnets, online databases of financial information and check imaging archives, to run a highly automated, multi-million-dollar counterfeit-check operation.

CA Technologies secures Google Docs, eyes more of the cloud

July 28, 2010

CA Technologies Wednesday outlined plans to expand its cloud-computing security strategy, including immediate support for Google Docs by its CA Identity Manager product.

Open source Razorback project targets malware, zero-day exploits

July 27, 2010

Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that's designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits.

Cybercrime costs a business $3.8 million/year, study finds

July 26, 2010

A new study of 45 U.S. organizations found that cybercrime -- including Web attacks, malicious code and rogue insiders -- costs each one of them $3.8 million per year, on average, and results in about one successful attack each week.

Is open source Snort dead? Depends who you ask

July 20, 2010

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS, thinks so. But Snort's creator, Martin Roesch, begs to differ.

VeriSign takes new tack with malware scanning and SSL certificates

July 19, 2010

VeriSign has begun offering free malware scanning services to customers that use its SSL certificates. The goal is to make sure those customers' Web sites aren't inadvertently hosting malware that could infect visitors.

IBM device secures online banking

July 19, 2010

IBM this week rolled out a security device it says will protect online banking and keep cyber-criminals from being able to make fraudulent funds transfer even from a compromised PC.

Dell offering free Web browser security tool

July 19, 2010

Dell, through its Kace unit, is making available free Web browser security software that works by creating a protective "sandbox" on the desktop to isolate the user's desktop from malware or other harmful actions that might be encountered browsing the Web.

The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets

July 15, 2010

Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail box. M86 Security says that the worldwide spam volume has now climbed to 230 billion messages per day, up from 200 billion at the start of 2010.