Articles for April 2008

P2P Networks: A Treasure Trove of Data

April 15th, 2008

ANALYSIS – Music and video are not the only things you can find on P2P networks. Sure, everyone has heard about the massive loss of employee data caused by P2P usage but what about the less publicized loss of personal documents, billing information, and corporate IP? In this InformationWeek article, the author tests P2P networks [...]

What is this application and what should I do with it?

April 11th, 2008

The rapid evolution of the application landscape has security administrators scrambling to determine which applications are traversing the network and how they should treat them. More and more applications, both business and end-user oriented, are using evasive tactics to bypass detection. Whether it is a virus update using port 80 (but not HTTP) or a [...]