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Sendside Networks, the FedEx of Electronic Delivery

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:08 +0000

William Borghetti, founder and CEO of Sendside Networks, is no stranger to big ideas–he sold his last startup, Campus Pipeline, to Sungard after automating inefficient “stand-in-line” processes at Universities. Now, in the same way FedEx revolutionized traditional mail with overnight delivery, Sendside Networks aims to provide an entirely new way for individuals and organizations to interact and transact electronically. Borghetti and team see a future where businesses replace paper, postage, and delivery time. Instead Borghetti expects businesses to offer an exchange of rich, interactive messages, documents, even full-blown web applications in a trusted messaging environment free of spam, fraud, and phishing scams.

Borghetti’s shares the story with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices and explains why Sendside created an entirely new technology offering for sensitive and confidential communication. Sendside believes SMTP and “bolt-on” solutions (like encryption) just can’t extend SMTP’s life. To protect its vision, Sendside created an IP arsenal filing 16 patents.

Want to send or receive secure messages with complete tracking and guaranteed retraction–even after someone opens it? Sendside Networks opens for public sign-up April 3, 2008.

Tags: Sendside Networks, the FedEx of Electronic Delivery

MailFoundry CEO David Troup Speaks

James Gaskin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:28:10 +0000

Their spam guarantee doesn’t mince words: no false positives. David Troup explains how and why they developed their spam appliance and how long it takes customers to believe that guarantee. Troup also tells why he provides spam filtering for companies with 10 mailboxes or less for free.

Tags: email, open source, Spam

Viral Strategy panel: Invites, Notifications, and News Feed Optimization

Aron Pruiett — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:32:02 +0000

Is blogger etiquette a viral issue and will users engage in such considerate formalities? Spam has found its way into many daily applications before Facebook, will Facebook’s platform become as congested with unwarranted solicitation as many platforms before it?

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings captured the business and technology of Facebook during the 2007Graphing Social Patterns conference. Getting attention through applications, platform expansion and new interfaces all get targeted by developers.

This panel of Justin Smith, Jia Shen, Blake Commagere, Jason Beckerman and Tim O’Shaughnessy speak up about what they enjoy and are working towards.

Tags: blogger etiquette, Spam, Facebook, Tom Foremski, Lee Cummings, Graphing Social Patterns, Justin Smith, Jia Shen, Blake Commagere, Jason Beckerman, Tim O’Shaughnessy

LunchMeet: Control Your Inbox with Boxbe

Eddie Codel — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:44:38 +0000

Email spam is a problem we have all grown to loathe. Boxbe is an interesting service that puts the user in conrol of their email inbox. Thede Loder, co-founder and president of Boxbe, tells me how his innovative service not only stops spam but allows you to charge email marketers a fee for reaching you. Thede describes how this system works and why marketers would be willing to pay you. He also gives us a demo of some of Boxbe’s features.

Tags: spam, Boxbe, email, Thede Loder

In Conversation With John Buckman, CEO of Magnatune

Kiruba Shankar — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:10 +0000

John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he’s better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google’s: “We are not evil.”
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Tags: John Buckman, entrepreneur, Magnatune

F5’s Alan Murphy: Stopping Spam at the Network Edge

Michael Johnson — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:23:06 +0000

At RSA 2007, F5’s Technical Marketing Manager Alan Murphy offers a practical solution to spam traffic on the network with the F5 BIG-IP Message Security Module.

Tags: RSA 2007, F5, Alan Murphy, BIG-IP

Google Apps in Health Care

John Furrier — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:00:23 +0000

SF Bay Pediatrics has been using Google Apps since last December for the kind of non-sensitive communications that keeps a clinic running smoothly.

Making Mobile Productive and Secure for Small Business Travelers

Catherine Girardeau — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:00:47 +0000

Mobile technology isn’t just cool; it’s essential for today’s small business. Our experts separate the hype from the hard truth when it comes to getting business done securely on the road. Join Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends and small business thought-leader; Jeff Zbar, “The Chief Home Officer” and nationally-recognized expert in living the home-office lifestyle; and Pamela Baker, technology guru for Success Magazine, as they share their insights into making mobile technology pay off for you.

This podcast was commissioned by Success Magazine.

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Tags: Mobile, Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends, Jeff Zbar, Pamela Baker, Success Magazine

Home and Home Office Security Report

editor — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:22:02 +0000

This podcast highlights some of the threats and dangers Symantec reported on in January 2007 and offers suggestions on how to stay protected.

More information at:
Symantec.com

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Peacomm Trojan Outbreak

editor — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:11:31 +0000

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the recent Trojan.Peacomm trojan horse. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the threat this malicious code poses to your systems and offers solutions to prevent initial infection and the spread of this new trojan horse.

More information at:
Symantec.com

Transcript:
Editor – PodTech

Hello and welcome to this Security Response Podcast presentation for January 22, 2007 brought to you by Symantec, the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals, small businesses and enterprise; assure the security, availability and integrity of their information. Today’s Podcast is focused on ‘Trojan.Peacomm’ or is it also known ‘Storm Worm’. Trojan.Peacomm and his variance or a new Category 3 threat that Symantec has seen propagating in the wild. The goal of this Podcast is to provide you with the summary of what the threat is, its impact, as well as provide you with some information on how to protect yourself and your organization.

On January 19th, 2007 Symantec begin receiving alerts on Trojan.Peacomm. Due to an increase in the speed and volume in which this threat is being spammed across the Internet, Symantec has raised the threat level this particular malicious code the category three. Initially, appearing to come from Russia, this Trojan horse program targets Microsoft Operating Systems and arrives as an attachment and email currently being spammed to users around the world.

In the hopes of spreading spam that pumps up penny stocks the author of this malicious code or attempting to trick users into installing the Trojan horse contained in the email. Attackers are using fake news headlines and the promise of a video clip to get unsuspecting users to open the message. Examples of the emails subject lines or 230 dead as storm batters Europe and Fidel Castro is dead. Contained in the email is an EXE attachment with title such as full video.exe, greeting postcard.exe and fullnews.exe among several others.

If an unsuspecting user is tricked to opening one of these attachments, the Trojan will install a number of threads including a rootkit, which attempts to hide itself in the operating system as well as the UDP based peer-to-peer communication channel, which can be used by the Trojan to communicate with several known IP addresses. Once the Trojan has been successfully installed, the infected machines will attempt to connect these addresses and then in turn begin to distribute high volume of penny stock spam.

Symantec Labs have observed an average of over 3500 spam messages per minute being sent on infected machines. In order to protect yourself from Trojan.Peacomm and his variance users and system administrator are advised to perform the following actions. Update your antivirus signatures, antivirus signatures have been available from Symantec since January 19th , but users and system administrator are advised to check for updates on possible new variance of this thread, make sure to configure your Firewalls, email solutions and gateway machine to drop all executable attachments. Update your antispam products to ensure that spam messages distributed by Trojan.Peacomm are stopped at the email gateway, as well as filtering incoming and outgoing activity over UDP port 4078, 71.

Finally, Symantec recommends that users never open any email or attachments from unknown or untrusted sources. For more information on this particular threat, point your browser to www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/index.jsp. That concludes our Podcast for today. Thank you for downloading and listening to the Security Response Podcast brought to you by Symantec, the global leader in information integrity, providing software appliances and services to help individual and enterprises secure and manage their most important asset, their information. For more information about this subject related products or additional Podcasts, make sure to visit www.symantec.com.

Tags: Symantec, Security Response, Trojan.Peacomm, trojan horse, Symantec

Symantec Blog Roundup

editor — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:54:00 +0000

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring two high-profile zero day vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft and the Broadcom Wireless device driver set. This podcast features a technical discussion of the vulnerabilities and offers listeners insight on likely attack scenarios and mitigating strategies. A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring a roundup of the top weblog postings from Symantec Security Response engineers in November. This podcast features a summary of weblogs from Zulfikar Ramzan, Patrick Fitzgerald, Dave Cole and Orlando Padilla.

More information at:
Symantec.com

Transcript:
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Hello and welcome to this Security Response Podcast brought to you by Symantec, the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals, small businesses, and enterprises, assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. This Podcast will present a roundup of the Symantec Security Response to weblogs posted in November, 2006. Blogs posted by Symantec Security Response engineers this month include a number of interesting topics. Zulfikar Ramzan discussed the cost of online fraud for two online brokerage houses. Patrick Fitzgerald wrote about online fraud that uses spam containing this leading investment tips. Dave Cole provided an update of this Symantec Phish Report Network. Shunichi Imano reported on a security concern affecting Broadcom Wireless Drivers; and finally Orlando Padilla recounted the results of Symantec’s research into the new Microsoft Vista Operating System for its resistance to malicious code. In his blog entitled, “A Dollar Figure on Online Fraud.” Zulfikar Ramzan discussed the cost of online fraud for two online brokerage houses “ETrade” and “TD AMERITRADE” estimated that online fraud had cost them a combined $22 million.

These losses were incurred through a scheme known as Pump-n-Dump and which fraudsters use stolen password and account information to manipulate stock prices. This confidential information was stolen using Keystroke Logging Software and Software Scraping Software. Both of these tools allow attackers to give all information entered into a compromised computer. Zulfikar goes on to describe some steps that the brokerage houses can take to detect suspicious activity. He also explains there are steps that you should take to ensure that your online transactions are protected these include the use of antivirus and Anti-Spyware Software using different passwords for different online accounts and not opening any attachments that do not come from known trusted sources.

Finally, Zulfikar recommends that you not conduct confidential transactions on unknown computers. Computers in public places such as internet cafes are often infected with malicious programs such as Spyware. It’s crucial that you’re sure that the computer you’re working on is secure and free of Spyware before conducting any confidential transactions. The best way to do this is to restrict such activities to you personal computer. In a related topic, it now appears that attackers maybe using spam messages to manipulate stock prices and so called Pump-n-Dump schemes. Patrick Fitzgerald explained that the virus Rustock.B has been detected sending spam that, contain stock information and false projections on future prices for the stock.

The stock in question was selling for $0.65, but was projected to be selling for $10 within 5 days, but this promise of quick earning potential would encourage speculators to buy the stock at thereby driving up the price artificially, as Patrick explains the stock rose from $0.65 up to $2 per share over a five-day period. The scammers within sell their holdings of the stock, which they bought at a very low price at the higher price caused by the speculator buying. After a few days, the stock returned to its natural price and those who had bought it based on the false information in the spam message would have lost their money. This type of spam activity may become more common as attackers realize its potential for easy earnings. As Patrick reminds us investing in stocks advertised by stock-based spam is definitely not a good idea.

The Phish report network is an extensive anti-fraud community in which members contribute and receive fraudulent web site addresses for alerting and blocking attacks across a broad range of solutions. The network is a community initiative led by a group of vendors including Yahoo!, Netscape, Symantec, and others and it’s open to any organization who wants to have phishing activity targeting their brand blocked through the networks community of solution providers. In his blog Dave Cole announced that any and all computer users can now submit their fresh phishing information to the network.

They can do this by visiting the following web site https://submit.symantec.com/antifraud/phish.cgi. They can then cut and paste the URL of the fraudulent web site in to the form provided. Once the web site has been submitted, Symantec will let the web site determine if it’s indeed fraudulent. If so, it will be added to a blank list, which will then be incorporated into the security products of participating vendors, allowing them to protect their users against phishing attacks using the fraudulent web site. The intelligence will also be forwarded to numerous financial institutions, which can then use the information to help law enforcement agencies to track down potential fraudsters. With the rapid adoption of wireless technologies, security of these devices is becoming a more urgent issue. It has blog entitled, “Wireless Monkey on the Loose.” Shunichi Imano reports that functional exploit code for Broadcom Wireless drivers has been made available to the public. A wireless device maybe vulnerable to this exploit if the computer has a susceptible Broadcom Wireless and network card and is running the drives in question.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of wireless networking all that is required of the attackers to be within range of the vulnerable machine. Because this vulnerability occurs extremely low level within the networking protocol, there maybe difficulties in detecting these attacks using standard IDS or IPS methods Shunichi recommends that you update the wireless drives as soon as possible. If your computer is running a vulnerable version of the Broadcom Wireless driver; otherwise, you should avoid using you wireless card to connecting networks in insecure areas and also be aware of the risk involved when connecting to wireless networks. Microsoft has finally released its much anticipated Vista Operating System. Vista is expected to address many of the security issues that have played past versions of Windows. Orlando Padilla’s blog entitled, “Hit or Miss? Vista and Current Threat Survivability” assessed Vista’s ability to protect against known malicious code samples.

In order to test Vista Symantec researchers gathered approximately 2000 unique instances of malicious code. Malicious code was selected randomly and included Rootkits, Trojans, Spyware, mass mailers, and so on. The researchers executed the code using this as a default user account control settings to determine the malicious code’s ability to execute on the target system and compromising on average about 70% of the malicious code tested loaded on Vista successfully and executed without a crash or runtime error. Howerver, successful execution does not necessarily mean the Malcode has fully compromised the victim host.

Out of this 70% of samples that we’re able to execute, only about 6% were able to fully compromise the targeted computer and even smaller number of 4% survived the system reboot. The rest did not execute properly either due to incompatibility, unhandled exceptions, or security restrictions. Orlando states that it’s easy to see why malicious code fails to successfully infect Vista. Malicious code authors regularly assume that users are running with administrator privileges. They usually attempt to modify system settings and/or global user environments such as registry keys and shared documents. They also attempt to bind a port with little interference. In Vista, these common tactics are now restricted or virtualized. Despite this, the majority of file infectors executor were able to modify other executables in the user’s directory. This is dangerous if the accounts are shared or if the user decides to share one of the directories that contains infected files.

Orlando concludes that while the results of Symantec’s research initially bode well for Vista, it is reasonable to conclude that malicious code authors will adapt to the new operating system. They will likely no longer target the system as a whole, instead they will target the users environment, a large portion of Symantec samples had failed because of unhandled conditions with no alternative code paths or because they were not able to execute within Vista’s new security environment. With relatively minor changes. Malcode authors can resolve these obstacles and when that happens, Vista will likely be more susceptible to successful compromise by malicious code. That concludes our security response Podcast for today.

For the complete text of this month’s blog postings point your browser to www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog. Thank you for downloading and listening to the security response Podcast brought to you by Symantec, the global leader in information integrity, providing software, appliances, and services to help individuals and enterprises secure and manage their most important asset, their information. For more information about this subject, related products, or additional Podcasts make sure to visit www.symantec.com.

Tags: Symantec Security Response, Microsoft, Broadcom Wireless, Symantec, Security, Zulfikar Ramzan, Patrick Fitzgerald, Dave Cole, Orlando Padilla, Symantec

IBM ShortCut #10: Blocking SPIM

editor — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:36:51 +0000

What is SPIM, and why can it be so dangerous? ShortCuts IM expert Akiba Saeedi explains how to keep your instant messaging spam-free, both inside and outside the office. This week’s link: Wikipedia’s guide to messaging spam.

More info:
www.ibm.com/ShortCuts

Tags: SPIM, Akiba Saeedi, instant messaging, spam

IBM ShortCut #5: Fighting blog spam

editor — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:16:45 +0000

Is your blog awash with comment spam? ShortCuts blogging expert Todd Watson shows how to get rid of the stuff. This week’s links: the Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam and the official Google blog on preventing comment spam.

More info:
www.ibm.com/ShortCuts

Tags: spam, blogging, Todd Watson

Vickram’s View: InDepth with Nandkumar Saravade

editor — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:30:38 +0000

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.
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Hacks Attack!

Matt Kelly — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:04:40 +0000

LOS ANGELES, August 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — It seems a day doesn’t go by without another cyber attack from hackers, spammers, phishers or those seeking to steal your identity. But are we under attack more than ever before? PodTech’s Matt Kelly put that and other questions to Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility.
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Tags: hackers, phishers, Lauren Weinstein, People for Internet Responsibility

e-Crime and Network Security Threats

editor — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:00:38 +0000

Juniper Networks correspondent Carol Wilson sits down with industry security experts and investigates how you and your enterprise can win the war against hackers, spammers and criminals. The podcast begins with David Flynn, vice president of products for Juniper Networks Security Products Group. He explores the changing network security environment as well as ways to keep your business competitive in a threatening marketplace. Later in the podcast, Wilson speaks with Richard Clarke about top security issues facing small-to-midsize enterprises. Clarke served as counterterrorism czar during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Finally, Doug Torre of the Catholic Health System of Buffalo, discusses the challenges of providing remote access to sensitive patient information.

Tags: Carol Wilson, hackers, David Flynn, Richard Clarke, Doug Torre

Massive Growth of the Blogosphere Continues

Admin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:56:23 +0000

Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati the authority of the blogosphere released his ussual “State of the Blogosphere”. Great work by Dave and his team in getting these stats out. The conversation will continue no doubt on the TechMeme

Dave says “Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months. That means things have slowed somewhat - the rate of doubling has increased by about half a month to once every seven months.”

In summary:

Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.
The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
From January 2004 until July 2006, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.
About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.
About 8% of new blogs get past Technorati’s filters, even if it is only for a few hours or days.
About 70% of the pings Technorati receives are from known spam sources, but we drop them before we have to send out a spider to go and index the splog.
Total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second.
This is about double the volume of about a year ago.
The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time

Symantec Security Update - May 2006

editor — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:22:01 +0000

A Symantec Security Response Podcast featuring information from the latest Symantec Security Update for May 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends identified in the report and to help educate users on how to protect themselves. This update covers the top developments in vulnerabilities, attacks, top bot infected cities, malicious code, and spam in the Americas region during this period.

More information at:
Symantec.com

Tags: Symantec, spam

McDonald’s Blogging Strategy - Steve Wilson Sr Dir Web Communications

Admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:12:11 +0000

At BlogOn I sat down with McDonald’s senior exec to talk about their Blogging strategy. This is a great example of corporate marketers using the blogosphere to influence consumers and more importantly create a conversation and build a community.

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BlogOn: Cathy Brooks Porter Novelli

Admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:10:48 +0000

At BlogOn I sat down with Cathy Brooks VP at Porter Novelli about blogging and PR. Cathy hosted a panel on “pitching social media”.

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BlogOn: Blogtronix CoFounder Vassil Mladjov on Enterprise Blogging

Admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:44:07 +0000

At BlogOn I sat down with Vassil Mladjov cofounder of Blogtronix. Blogtronix has a cutting edge enterprise blog platform that supports rich media and blogging. Vassil and I talk about the direction of enterprise blogging.

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BlogOn: Bill Flitter CoFounder Pheedo

Admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:31:26 +0000

At BlogOn I sat down with Bill Flitter cofounder of Pheedo. Pheedo has a cutting edge blog advertising network solution. Bill and I talk about the state of blogging and advertising.

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