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=== CONTENTS ===================================================
IN FOCUS: Which Antiphishing Solution Is Best?
NEWS AND FEATURES
- Malware Could Become Its Own Worst Enemy
- GRISOFT Expands Offerings to Linux and FreeBSD
- Check Point Slated to Acquire Protect Data
- Recent Security Vulnerabilities
GIVE AND TAKE
- Security Matters Blog: New Tool from Sysinternals: Procmon
- FAQ: Hiding the List of Domains at Logon
- From the Forum: Shared Mobile Laptops
- Know Your IT Security Contest
- IT Pro of the Month--October 2006 Winner
PRODUCTS
- Audit Your Web Site
- Wanted: Your Reviews of Products
RESOURCES AND EVENTS
FEATURED WHITE PAPER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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=== IN FOCUS: Which Antiphishing Solution Is Best? =============
by Mark Joseph Edwards, News Editor, mark at ntsecurity / net
The best antiphishing defense you could hope to build is based firmly
upon end-user education. If people could be freed from their naivete,
scammers wouldn't stand a chance of fooling anyone except themselves.
But many companies don't see the value in ongoing user education, and
some people simply can't be educated to a reasonable degree. Thus, we
need antiphishing software, which has become a major feature of Web
browsers and of various third-party security solutions.
In October, a Microsoft-commissioned report on various antiphishing
solutions was released. The testers found that Microsoft Internet
Explorer (IE) 7.0 has better antiphishing technology than competing
solutions. The products tested included IE 7.0 Beta 3, EarthLink
ScamBlocker, eBay Toolbar with Account Guard, GeoTrust TrustWatch,
Google Toolbar for Firefox with Safe Browsing, McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus,
Netcraft Toolbar, and Netscape Browser with built-in antiphishing
technology. In "IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 Both Have New Antiphishing
Technologies" (at the URL below), I reported that the test results were
weighted toward rewarding tools that completely blocked access to
suspected phishing sites (rather than just warning users) and to tools
that didn't produce false positives.
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The Mozilla Foundation commissioned its own study to gauge the
effectiveness of Mozilla Firefox 2.0's antiphishing technology as
compared with IE 7.0's. This study found that Firefox's antiphishing
technology was better than IE's by a considerable margin (see the
results at the URL below).
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One difference between the two studies is that Mozilla used a much
larger sample of known phishing sites, all of which appear on the
PhishTank Web site, at the URL below. The larger sample undoubtedly had
an effect on the overall outcome. Another difference is the weighting
in the Microsoft-sponsored test. If you don't place the same value on
certain features as the test did, you might not give the tools the same
ranking they received in the test results.
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I think the most interesting result is that some of the third-party
products performed exceptionally well in the test commissioned by
Microsoft. But neither report seems conclusive to me. One report
provides test results for many products but used a small sample of
known phishing sites. The other report used a large sample of sites but
tested only two products out of the many available.
It would be interesting to see a new report that uses a very large
sample of phishing sites and performs tests on all (or most) of the
available antiphishing solutions, including third-party solutions that
offer both browser-based protection and gateway-level protection.
It's especially important to know how gateway-level solutions perform,
because browsers and browser toolbars are updated frequently. Thus,
keeping up on all workstations is a big chore, especially in large
organizations. It seems to me that using a gateway-based solution would
be much more cost effective if at all possible. However, a gateway-
based solution might not work for you, depending on the way you handle
connectivity and security for your mobile users.
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=== SECURITY NEWS AND FEATURES =================================
Malware Could Become Its Own Worst Enemy
An emulator that poses as a virtual machine (VM) could protect a
system against certain types of malware that detect VMs and refuse to
run in them.
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GRISOFT Expands Offerings to Linux and FreeBSD
Antivirus maker GRISOFT has expanded its line of antivirus and
antispam security products to include support for Linux and FreeBSD.
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Check Point Slated to Acquire Protect Data
Check Point Software Technologies said it has made an offer to
acquire Sweden-based Protect Data, owner of Pointsec Mobile
Technologies.
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Recent Security Vulnerabilities
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=== GIVE AND TAKE ==============================================
SECURITY MATTERS BLOG: New Tool from Sysinternals: Procmon
by Mark Joseph Edwards, http://list.windowsitpro.com/t?ctl=4187D:886699
Process Monitor (Procmon) is Filemon and Regmon combined, and then
some. Microsoft says the capabilities will make Procmon "a core utility
in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit." Learn more
about it in this blog article.
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FAQ: Hiding the List of Domains at Logon
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Q: How can I use Group Policy to hide the domain drop-down list in the
Windows Logon dialog box?
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FROM THE FORUM: Shared Mobile Laptops
A forum participant has several laptops that are used by multiple
employees for presentations or meetings in the office and for working
at home. In the office, laptop users can connect to the Internet via
wireless access points (APs). Home users access the Internet via their
own private broadband connection (they don't have VPN access into the
company network). Should the laptops be part of the domain, which will
force users to log on using their individual accounts, or should they
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