Articles by Mike Paquette

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The Worm Returns: Protecting Yourself From Conficker

In 2008, researchers were touting the defeat of the Storm worm -- the most notorious example of the malware category that self-propagates through remote exploits, email, network shares, removable drives, file-sharing or instant messaging applications. Some would argue that despite the name, Storm was not a traditional worm at all, since it required a human-computer interaction to spread. ...

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Web 2.0: A New Wave of Threats

With the continued increase in Web-based communication in the form of Web applications, social networking sites, wikis, blogs and podcasts, new security risks are rising throughout the enterprise. Organizations must take steps to strengthen their defenses in a Web 2.0 world As Web 2.0 continues to offer new and exciting ways to collaborate more in...

2007 Security Threats on the Rise

Security threats paint a constantly evolving landscape, and there is no end in sight in terms of threats that keep appearing Enterprises have survived through extraordinary cycles of security threats, including the 2003 "summer of worms"; the 2004 proliferation of DDoS-based (distributed denial of service) cyber extortion of online betting sites; a...

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