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The Context of Ethical Hacking in Network Security and Business protection |
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What is Ethical Hacking? |
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Ethical hacking involves computer and network professionals who use their expertise to safeguard the networks of an organization on behalf of its owners. In order to test a security system, they seek vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. Ethical hacking is also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing, and red teaming. An ethical hacker is sometimes called a white hat while the other one is called black hat. Ethical hackers collect and assess information on issues like loopholes which are truly a security threat, the depth to which a hacker can get into via one of these holes and the patching requirements in order of priority. Read More > |
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Virus Threats - September 2008 |
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This month in September, the Rootkit, “Win32.Agent.cvx” turned out to be the most frequent and widespread virus replacing last month’s leader, Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger.ech. The rootkit was detected on 28 August and it actively spread across the Internet throughout the month. Another unusual malicious program, Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n, was listed at the second place in the list, which exploits vulnerability in Windows Media Player to download various Trojans. |
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September’s ranking only saw nine new entries (compared to 16 in August). Among them is the veteran worm of the virus world Brontok.q in eighteenth place. However, according to KSN data, a number of malicious programs that infect files have been significantly curtailed over the last three months. Read More > |
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Cyberoam Secures Remote Locations of Top Construction Company Al Shafar |
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Al Shafar General Contracting (ASGC) is a major UAE building contractor on a high growth curve with head offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Its construction interests are spread throughout the country across 22 locations.
Apart from maintaining and augmenting the IT infrastructure that comprise data centres, servers and remote locations, the network administrators looked for a solution that could prove to be a one-stop shop for the security and web access management needs. The IT team tested Cyberoam in comparison to the other products and selected it on the basis of its ease of manageability and reporting structures. Till date Al Shafar has deployed 26 of Cyberoam Appliances. Read More > |
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