Secunia doesn’t think AV and IDS vendors are writing signatures well enough and plans to remedy the situation by opening up their analyses to a wider customer base with easier “pay-as-you-go” terms.
we have also realised that far too many of the other AV and IDS / IPS vendors - including the major ones [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Secunia
If you google Sophos vs Eset the first result is this pdf document hosted at Eset’s site that is basically a common “beat sheet” that all vendors create. Most beat sheets are made for the internal sales teams or resellers and are marked something like “confidental - do not share outside of Company [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus
Patchlink took my advice - sort of. I suggested changing their name to SecureLink after acquiring SecureWave and STAT, but they chose Lumension Security instead.
Their tagline, “Putting Security in a Positive Light”, is a reference to their endorsement of the positive security model they inherited from SecureWave’s Sanctuary, their “application and device [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Endpoint Security · Patch Management · Patchlink · Positive Security Model · Proactive Security · marketing
The AV Fight Club at LinuxWorld was an interesting AV comparison sponsored by Untangle. ClamAV, Symantec and Kaspersky came out on top at 100%…Sophos caught 94%. There were only 25 viruses in the sample set. The interesting thing is that I have seen other tests with much larger sample sets that show ClamAV near the [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Malware · Open Source
From Chris Mitchell at SophosLabs Blog:
Today a piece of malware (Troj/Bancos-BDF) crossed my desk that at first did not look like a Banker Trojan at all. It eventually turned out to be one of the most nefarious and brazen Banker Trojans I have ever analysed and it managed to do it all with only one [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Malware
I spoke to a network admin recently that runs a Mac network for a small architecture firm. Over the years, they have accumulated a good collection of Windows macro viruses in docs stored on his network. Since they weren’t affected by these viruses, they never bothered to clean them up. It is [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Apple · Mac
UPDATE: More on the Patchlink name change here
Patchlink has announced that they will acquire SecureWave, which adds endpoint security to their recent acquisition of the vulnerability scanner STAT Guardian (now Patchlink Scan), and their existing prowess at automated patch management. Last Fall, I told Patchlink that Bit9 would be a good buy for them, [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Endpoint Security · Malware · NAC · Patch Management · Patchlink · Positive Security Model · Proactive Security · Security · marketing
Oliver Braekow, Webwasher product manager for Secure Computing, was the guest of the first Jon’s Network Podcast.
Oliver explains how, using their SSL scanner module, Webwasher prevents malware from using HTTPS to communicate. It will also prevent users from bypassing traditional web content filters using popular CGI proxies. This is important to keep sensitive [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Malware · Security · Web Filtering · Web Proxy · Webwasher · podcast
Can you guess the vendor?
I watched a web demo yesterday. Here are my notes from the strategic portion that demonstrate well how list based solutions are no match for today’s threats. Which vendor gave the presentation?
Problems no outbound inspection no anti-malware protection from live web pages (web 2.0 pages with more user generated content)
In [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Email Security · Malware · Security · Spam · Web · Web Filtering
eEye had a good story to tell on their webinar this morning. It looks like Blink is their flagship product that professes to be the ultimate desktop security client. It is quite compelling. The hard drive on my Windows box got fried a couple of weeks ago, and Dell hasn’t responded to my [...]
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