Friday, May 15, 2015

Report: Top Endpoint Security Packages Perfectly Foil Drive-By Attacks


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One effective way to thwart drive-by attacks is through analysis of a website's reputation. With a good reputation system, bad websites can be blacklisted by an endpoint product. "It can take action right away just by looking at the URL," noted NSS Labs' Bhaarath Venkateswaran. "It's stage one protection, so it blocks the site before it can drop anything on the user's machine."

Drive-by attacks on the Internet are a particularly pernicious form of online threat, especially for individual Web surfers. On the corporate level, though, a company with good endpoint protection software can foil the malicious practice.
A drive-by occurs when an infected website automatically downloads malware onto a Net traveler's computer. Several companies make endpoint solutions to -- among other things -- thwart those kinds of attacks. NSS Labs recently tested 10 of them.
"The exploitation of software vulnerabilities is one of the most common and effective cyber attacks that enterprises face today. Commonly known as drive-by exploits, these attacks silently compromise a victim's computer without the user being aware," notes the firm's report.
"Drive-by exploits have become a favored tool of cyber criminals and other threat actors," it continues. "Endpoint protection (EPP) products must provide robust defenses against these threats."
Top finishers in the testing were endpoint products made by F-Secure, Symantec and Kaspersky, which blocked 100 percent of the drive-by attacks hurled at them.

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  1. Have used Kaspersky Anti virus for a couple of years now, and I would recommend this anti virus to all of you.

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