July 05th, 2010

Virus production from Russia is on the up again, after a temporary decline last month when Russian hosting service, PROXIEZ-NET – notoriously used by criminal gangs – was taken down in early May. This is according to analysis of internet threats in June, by managed security company, Network Box.

Russia is now responsible for 7.4 per cent of the world’s malware, and is back to being in the top four virus-producing countries, behind the US (13 per cent), Korea (10.1 per cent) and India (9.2 per cent).

This follows a similar pattern to malware production after the McColo shutdown in the US, in November 2008, when the US’s threat production decreased dramatically temporarily, but was back up to normal levels within a month.

Levels of viruses and spam from the UK remain …

 July 04th, 2010

News has broke in the last few days of an alarming bug within the Windows XP support system. Apparently 10000 machines have so far been attacked leaving a  variety of trojans, spam tools and viruses on compromised machines.

Read more at the BBC News website or visit Microsoft for an automatic tool to disable the vulnerable part of the XP help and support center.

 July 02nd, 2010

In the official welcome speech to Organizers and Participants of the show, Nikolai Mukhitdinov, General manager for Executive Committee of the RCC says: “Unfortunately, the progress associated with the use of modern technology, like many other positive initiatives that have negative consequences, creating new threats to humanity.

Therefore, ensuring the proper level of information security and counteraction of illegal use of ICT had become more urgent areas of cooperation in building the information society, ensuring confidence and security in cyberspace. Improving Cybersecurity, the use of modern, efficient development of information security – the imperatives of the Commonwealth and world community as a whole”.

“We welcome the initiative of “Groteck” to bring public opinion to information security issues and express appreciation for the actualization of the protection of information, sharing experiences and developing …

 June 29th, 2010

Political leaders continue to hold conferences and sign treaties as the need to tackle cybercrime at an international level rapidly increases, but ultimately these attempts at agreement fail due to national interests and diplomatic concerns, according to Simon Heron, internet security analyst at managed security company Network Box.

In The state of international co-operation on cybercrime, Heron highlights the need for cybercrime to be tackled at an international level. Political attempts at a response to the problem have so far been flawed due to reasons ranging from domestic populations concerns over privacy and justice, to a fear of incompatibility with national cyber security initiatives that are already underway. No nation wants to give up more power to international bodies, and yet no one nation can fight cybercrime in isolation.

The …

 June 26th, 2010

A new ideology of organizing InfoSecurityRussia.StorageExpo.Documation’2010 (November 17-19, Sokolniki Expo) has been approved by key end-users, vendors, system integrators and government authorities.

An opinion poll held by Groteck Business Media in December 2009 – February 2010 amongst over 300 IT, telecom and information security professionals has defined principle product areas, formats of event activities, requirements to case studies and emphasis in networking opportunities.

7th International Expo InfoSecurityRussia.StorageExpo.Documation’2010 provides the maximum value for the visitor and the highest ROI in Russia for the exhibitor. The end-users – in the focus of attention The expo program is being suggested by end-users and their professional associations.

This allows serving key current and medium-term customer interests that have budgets behind them.

∙ End-users provide their requests – vendors, system integrators and installers prepare their responses. Topics are specified by …