Jon's Network

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Jeff Atwood describes how his PC was overwhelmed by spyware and adware after visiting two reputable gaming sites to download some patches. He had recently reinstalled XP and decided to download the game updates without patching the browser and OS. Just two quick sites would be OK right? Well, one of them nailed him and [...]

[Read more →]

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, [...]

[Read more →]

How do we protect companies from malware that no one has ever seen before? In this podcast we touch briefly on the well-known malware problem and how Webwasher tackles it at the gateway with their Anti-Malware Module. Using a combination of signatures, heuristics and behavior analysis (proactive detection in marketing lingo), they can stop more [...]

[Read more →]

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 information [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

I’m sure you have heard about Julie Amero, the poor substitute teacher that was convicted of harming some minors by intentionally showing them pornography.  You can read the Jan 6 report here.  First of all, even if she did do that, I don’t think a prison sentence is going to curb her interest in porn.  [...]

[Read more →]