Trend Micro has plans for a new virtualization security product designed to protect virtual machines whether they are active or offline. The product, called Trend Micro Core Protection for Virtual Machines, is aimed at providing new levels of malware protection for virtual machines. - Trend Micro is pushing ahead with plans to bolster its virtualization security portfolio with a new offering designed to protect VMware ESX/ESXi environments.
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An attacker who defaced the Web site of Turkey's embassy in China on Monday left behind a pro-China note as the two countries worked through a diplomatic spat.

About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of obnoxious pitches per day, according to a new survey.

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Cloud storage is pay as you go, with no capital outlay and no need to buy extra equipment for future storage needs. But will IT managers trust their data to the cloud?

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Accused of falsifying hits and spamming users.

It’s been a busy week here in the office, between investigating, helping customers and the operator community, investigating some more, and of course talking to the press. Here’s some quick stats I have been running this afternoon on the attack using ATLAS data. This data comes from our monitors used in the backbone monitoring live traffic rates and actual DDoS attacks. We didn’t see all of the attacks against all of the victims (some 47 unique victims counted by ShadowServer by analyzing all of the configuration files) but this, we think, may be representative of the attacks.

The peak attack size we measured was about 182Mbps. The average size of an attack was about 39Mbps. Earlier investigations a couple of days ago showed smaller attacks but I would still classify these as “garden variety” in their intensity (most things below a couple hundred Mbps are pretty easily filtered).

The attacks lasted between a few minutes and 10 hours, with an average duration of about 3 hours.

In almost all cases these were low level anomalies to the devices monitoring the traffic. The bps and pps (packet per second) rates were barely above threshholds in many cases.

As such our original analysis made a couple of days ago that this was a pretty modest sized attack stands.

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