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ScanSafe Inc

Type: Company

Name: ScanSafe Inc

Nationality: United States

Web Address: http://www.scansafe.com/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for ScanSafe Inc

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

March Madness Maddening for Company Bandwidth

We?ve been hearing for years about how the first two days of March Madness can cost companies a whole bunch of money in terms of employee productivity. But have you stopped to think about the network issues that can occur with all of those workers streaming ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Phone+]

Entities: Bandwidth, ScanSafe Inc, Spencer Parker, Wide Area Network, CBSSports.com

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Spencer Parker, director of product management at ScanSafe, as quoted by Computerworld

Having well-defined Internet usage policies, particularly pertaining to streaming video, can ease the bandwidth squeeze durin - More - ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by SmartBrief]

Entities: Spencer Parker, ScanSafe Inc, Bandwidth

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

How to manage March Madness in the workplace

The time spent watching streaming video and engaging in online betting during the first week of the NCAA basketball tournament this year could cost employers $1.8 billion in lost productivity, according to a report. The amount of online video watched ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by SmartBrief]

Entities: Spencer Parker, ScanSafe Inc, Online Video, Bandwidth

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Hoop tourney means March Madness for IT

Streaming video of games, online betting pools sap productivity, corporate networks(0)(0)Top StoriesComputerworld - With March Madness kicking off this week, corporate IT shops better be prepared to handle the at-work computing madness that comes along ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Computerworld]

Entities: John Challenger, Bandwidth, ScanSafe Inc

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Zeus botnet temporarily disrupted

Tags: botnet trojan ZeusThe Zeus botnet, a Trojan family widely used by cybercriminals to target victims with data-stealing malware, was temporarily disrupted this week after the ISP suspected of hosting its command-and-control servers was brought d ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Search Security Asia]

Entities: Botnet, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe Inc, Trojan horse

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

ScanSafe Inc

ISP interruptions trip up Zeus botnet

The world's largest botnet, Zeus, has had its traffic disrupted by repeated disconnections of a Kazakhstani ISP, but a series of reconnections has revived its banking Trojan activity, according to security researchers.The botnet mainly pushes out the ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by CNET News.com]

Entities: Botnet, Trojan horse, ScanSafe Inc

First Reported Mar 10 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 4 Documents

Zeus-Friendly ISP Booted Off the Internet

An ISP harboring a considerable number of Zeus botnet command and control (C&C) servers was de-peered by its upstream providers yesterday. The unusual action resulted in a significant drop of Zeus-related activity. TROYAK-AS (AS50215), an ISP registered ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by Softpedia]

Entities: Botnet, Trojan horse, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe Inc

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 25 2010 - 1 Documents

Twitter hit by second phishing attack in a week

Users warned not to click on 'This you????' messagesSecurity experts are warning Twitter users not to click on any links posted with the message 'This you????' as they are part of the second phishing attack in a week to hit the micro-blogging site.The ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Computing.co.uk]

Entities: Phishing, Twitter Inc, ScanSafe Inc, Graham Cluley, Sophos

First Reported Feb 24 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

Researchers Highlight PDF Risks

Vulnerabilities related to Adobe PDF files could be emerging as hackers' favorite target, according to some security researchers. Some users might consider taking steps to lessen the rising risk, they say.In 2009's last quarter, 80 percent of malware ... [Published Feb 24 2010 by Security Management Online]

Entities: Adobe Systems Incorporated, ScanSafe Inc, Vulnerability, JavaScript

First Reported Feb 23 2010 - Updated Feb 24 2010 - 1 Documents

How to apologize after spreading spam

Love may mean never having to say you're sorry, but not so with certain vicious kinds of spam that can lead to compromised online accounts, especially on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, where more and more of us are congregating these ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by MSNBC]

Entities: Phishing, Spam, Twitter Inc

First Reported Feb 23 2010 - Updated Feb 23 2010 - 1 Documents

Are Adobe products safe?

Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe(Credit: James Martin/CNET )On January 16, 2009, Adobe learned about a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 involving the JBIG2 image compression standard. Even though there were reports ... [Published Feb 23 2010 by CNET News.com]

Entities: Adobe Systems Incorporated, CNET Networks Inc, Tom Merritt, ScanSafe Inc, James Martin

First Reported Feb 20 2010 - Updated Feb 20 2010 - 1 Documents

eWeek Security Watch: High-Profile Verticals Hammered with Malware Attacks

We've known for years that industries that control large amounts of highly sensitive data (financial services) and/or assets (utilities) have been sitting squarely in cyber-attackers sights, as the threats tend to go where the money and power (quite literally) ... [Published Feb 20 2010 by eWeek]

Entities: ScanSafe Inc, Trojan horse, Malware

Quotes

...The amount of online video watched during that period can also put a strain on a company's IT system, experts note. "The amount of corporate bandwidth used to view these basketball games during work hours is shocking" said ScanSafe's Spencer Parker. IT managers must respond with clear policies on Internet use to keep broadband speeds and productivity up

How to manage March Madness in the workplace [SmartBrief - Mar 18 2010]

"Troyak seems to be down," said an administrator for Zeus Tracker. "And I believe that it won't come up again. Every ISP knows that Troyak is bad and won't peer/route their badness."

After weeklong fight, rogue ISP Troyak struggles for life [Computerworld - Mar 17 2010]

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March Madness Maddening for Company Bandwidth [Phone+ - Mar 18 2010]
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How to manage March Madness in the workplace [SmartBrief - Mar 18 2010]
After weeklong fight, rogue ISP Troyak struggle... [Computerworld - Mar 17 2010]
Hoop tourney means March Madness for IT [Computerworld - Mar 17 2010]
Zeus botnet temporarily disrupted [Search Security Asia - Mar 16 2010]
Researchers Questions Zeus Botnet Future Threat [Eweek Europe - Mar 15 2010]
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Troyak shutdown signals short-lived win against... [SC Magazine US - Mar 11 2010]
Zeus-Friendly ISP Booted Off the Internet [Softpedia - Mar 11 2010]
Zeus Botnet Disrupted [New New Internet - Mar 11 2010]
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Adobe Reader most attacked application, says F-... [Techworld.com - Mar 11 2010]
Zeus Botnet Takes a Hit [PC Magazine - Mar 11 2010]
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ISP takedown hamstrings Zeus malware [Yahoo! UK and Ireland - Mar 11 2010]
Shutdown of Zeus botnet controller has research... [Industry Standard - Mar 11 2010]
News: Hackers love to exploit PDF bugs, says re... [Australian PC World - Mar 11 2010]
Zeus botnets suffer mighty blow after ISP taken... [The Register - Mar 10 2010]
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Blogs

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ISP interruptions trip up Zeus botnet [CNET News.com - Mar 12 2010] The world's largest botnet, Zeus, has had its traffic disrupted by repeated disconnections of a Kazakhstani ISP, but a series of reconnections has revived its banking ...
Your lunchtime technology newsbucket - links ga... [Technology: Technology blog \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 12 2010] Joojoo tablets, no video chat on planes?, Facebook prodded on panic buttons, Flash vs HTML5 - timed!, Windows 7 - too easy?, AOL v Bebo, Jimmy Wales interviewed, ...
The lunchtime technology newsbucket: chock full... [Technology: Technology blog \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 11 2010] Wired's past predictions, solicitors accused, Amazon clicks it, Sony's Move move, OSS on Windows, emerging sites, and the web's real Cold WarA quick burst of links ...
Are Adobe products safe? [CNET News.com - Feb 23 2010] Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe (Credit: James Martin/CNET ) On January 16, 2009, Adobe learned about a vulnerability in Adobe Reader ...
Acrobat, Adobe Reader & Flash updated f... [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Feb 17 2010] Filed under: Software, SecurityIn response to two critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Adobe Reader 9.3, yesterday Adobe released the 9.3.1 update for both applications; ...