Dell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atlanta-based security services provider SecureWorks in a bid to expand its offerings on the IT-as-a-Service market.Founded in 1999, SecureWorks offers managed security, risk assessment, security consulting and threat intelligence services to over 2,900 clients in 70 ... |
4 January 2011
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According to a study performed by Atlanta-based security company SecureWorks, the United States is responsible for the largest number of attempted cyber attacks in the last six months, with rate of 1.6 incidents for every PC in the country. Meanwhile, India is the most “peaceful” nation, with an attacks-p... |
5 July 2010
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Analysts from security company SecureWorks discovered one of the most complex and effective click fraud trojans known to date, while analyzing the malware served by the Nine-Ball mass injection attack. The trojan, dubbed FFSearcher, leverages on Google's Custom Search widget to generate income for cybercrooks. ... |
2 July 2009
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Researchers from IT security firm SecureWorks have documented a new DNS amplification technique employed in recent DDoS attacks. The experts also provide possible solutions to mitigate such attacks. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks occur when a service is flooded with a large number of packets to the poi... |
10 February 2009
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The entire Internet infrastructure of the democratic Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been severely crippled by DDoS attacks originating in Russia. The intense attacks targeting the major ISPs in the country have been sustained for over a week, report researchers from information security firm SecureWorks.The attacks which... |
29 January 2009
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Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at SecureWorks, discovered that a group of Russian hackers used a type of trojan that affected over 378,000 computers. The computers, all part of the same network, were infected via a genuine Microsoft application. Coreflood is the name of the trojan used to steal data from t... |
6 August 2008
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According to information security company SecureWorks, there is a spam campaign targeted at financial institutions such as banks. The spam message threatens the bank that unless it transfers 10,000 to a certain account, the spammer will sell private information regarding 48,000 bank customers on the black market; h... |
1 July 2008
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Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research with SecureWorks has recently made public the fact that he found a stolen data cache of unprecedented size. AFcore is a Coreflood trojan that has so far been able to avoid detection, using all this time it has been hidden to gather as much private information as possible. Th... |
1 July 2008
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