August 31, 2005
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The anti-virus company Sophos claims that the author of the Zotob Windows 200 worm, Farid Essebar, has written at least 20 other viruses. Techworld reports that the company made the claim after analyzing other viruses with Essebar’s "Dibal0" moniker. His other suspected viruses are the Mydoom variant, Mydoom-BG, and the Zotob-related Mytob worm that the company says currently accounts for over half of all virus traffic reported to it in August. The Russian-born Moroccan resident was arrested last Thursday, after computer forensic work by the FBI traced him and his alleged accomplice, Atilla Ekici, to addresses in the country, and in Turkey. Read more.
Read more about data protection in CSOonline's Data Protection section.
The challenge of true data protection spans databases, internal and external networks, physical and offsite storage, business partners and more. These resources offer expert perspective from the basics through specific key elements of data protection strategies.
Network security basics
Protection, detection, and reaction—those are the three underlying principles your security program must embody
Computer incident detection, response, forensics
Richard Bejtlich shows how to measure and improve the maturity of your incident response
A few good IT security metrics
Stop counting blocked malware attachments and measure things that can contribute to meaningful change
5 key cloud security trends
Cloud security is evolving rapidly—stay on top of it
IT risk assessment frameworks
How to do end-to-end encryption
How to compare and use enterprise antivirus
Also find sample data protection policies in CSO's tools, templates and policies library
- The CISO's Survival Guide to Securing Data
- Data Privacy and Protection in Production Environments: New Research from Ponemon Institute
- FireEye Advanced Threat Protection KnowledgeVault
- Five Tips to Consider in a Data Security Strategy for Smartphones and Tablets
- Moving Your Email to the Trusted Cloud
- Comprehensive Server Protection
- DHS cybersecurity official leaves more questions than answers
During lunch at ISSA-LA's Security Summit IV event here at the Universal City Hilton, we heard a talk from - Maiffret: If it's a Linux flaw, your phone is directly threatened
- Alan Paller on cutting through the bull
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