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The number of vulnerabilities in the Top-50 most popular programs typically installed on end-user PCs is increasing at an alarming rate. This trend is primarily driven by the increase in vulnerabilities discovered in 3rd party programs (non-Microsoft), which have exceeded Microsoft as the criminal’s preferred target.

In this paper, we examine the software portfolio of the average user based on empirical data from over two million users frequently scanning their systems with Secunias Personal Software Inspector (PSI). Our analysis demonstrates, that the complexity and frequency of the actions required to keep a typical end-user system secure, most likely exceeds what users [...]

For years the software industry has promoted reduced privileges for user accounts as a key security best practice to prevent misuse and successful exploitation of end-point systems. There are two main rationales/assumptions that back up this strategy: A) malware requires administrative access to successfully exploit and compromise a system, and B) users without administrative access [...]

Video conferencing has had many false dawns, but perhaps something is changing. Some of the technology perceptions that have affected its adoption for a long time still persist. There are concerns about interoperability between different vendors‟ products, the quality of the sound and video, the communications costs and impact on network bandwidth. Most of these [...]

The numbers of employees using some form of mobile technology while working has soared. The benefits to the organisation are well documented; employees are more contactable, will probably extend their working days and should be more productive. However, this is not a one way street; employees are avid consumers of all things mobile, as much [...]

Just as Mobile World Congress 2011 was about to kick off with lots of pizzazz, hype and fanfare from the mobile industry, many enterprise IT managers would be feeling nervous. Many businesses might have started their love affair with mobile with a few executives innocently picking BlackBerrys, but mobile adoption has now become so widespread, [...]

Malware on endpoint devices is quickly becoming the biggest source of identity theft and financial fraud. Over the past twelve months, modern malware attacks have been growing significantly in number and sophistication, with new variants being released almost every day. This makes it extremely difficult for traditional solutions such as the anti-virus to keep up [...]

When two peers communicate through VPN tunnels using IKE and IPSEC, the connectivity between both peers can unexpectedly be interrupted. Such a situation may arise due to routing problems, the reboot of a host, etc. In these cases, IKE and IPSEC in general do not provide a way of knowing the peer’s connectivity status, so [...]

Within these past few years, threats have evolved at a considerable pace. This can be seen from the proliferation of infection methods (from the diskette to web 2.0 and passing through e-mail), to the growing complexity of malicious codes and lastly, to a shift in the intentions of malicious network users. Cybercrime has pushed the [...]