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As an initiative to train the upcoming generation on computer security, University of Missouri (MU) organized a weeklong United States Cyber Challenge Regional Cyber Security Boot Camp. The participants, hailing from all over the country learned skills for breaking into computer networks, to defend them from such attacks.
Defending a network without understanding how to attack it in the first place is like a police officer trying to protect and serve ...
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Symantec released a report that malware is leading to a rise in attacks. Spam in email traffic rose to 77.8 percent, an increase of 4.9 percentage from last month – a key transport mechanism for malware. Symantec found that almost 7,000 sites have malware and other malicious programs. Month over month, that’s an increase of 25 percent!
Blue Coat Systems released a web security report on the current state of malware ecosystems – detailing the growing size and ...
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Game theory has found application in the contexts of war, business, and biology, and now find increasing use in computer security, as a means to remain one-up on hackers and other cyber criminals.
The application of game theory allows setting up ...
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The changing nature and increasing frequency of cyber attacks has changed the dimensions of network security. Many organizations remain under a fallacy network firewalls, antivirus software, and IPS systems offer enough protection, when the fact remains that such silo security solutions does little to ward off the now common multi-layered attacks. Defending against the new multilayer attacks require an integrated approach that combines network security with application security and access control.
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An endpoint is any single device, peripheral, drive, or anything else that can attach to the network. Common endpoint devices are USB’s, CD/DVD, external hard disks, smart phones, and more. Hitherto computer networks remained closed and isolated entities, and the first generation network security based itself on this assumption. The advent of internet, and mobile endpoint devices however has changed network security. The fact that network security still ...
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The increased use of internet for commercial transactions and the associated increase in security risks has made data encryption commonplace. Encryption involves using an algorithm-based cipher to make plain text data unreadable except for those with the key to the cipher, and is crucial in protecting data in transit from preying eyes.
The two broad types of encryption are symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric algorithms have a single ...
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