Re: Best practices for preventing malware in a small business environment?

["Marco M. Morana" <marco.m.morana () gmail com>]

You need inform customers and set preventive and detective controls. Good information besides avoid clicking on links 
embedded on email or facebook is to keep browser and anti virus up to date, pay attention to spoofed email and spoofed 
UIs and provide examples of Zeus injected HTML fields for account harvesting. As preventive to MITB you have CAPTCHA, 
man present controls, anti-forgery/watermarks on web forms. Assuming malware does MITM and session hijacking you also 
need to protect your site transactions with OOBA, customer alerts and fraud detection engine/rules.

Regards
Marco

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On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:17 PM, "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com> wrote:

> Brian Fritts wrote:
> > Education, Education, Education!!!!!
> >
> > Take the time and educate them rather than relying solely on software
> > alone.
>
> Yes, we try and try and try.  Then some idiot comes along and undoes it all.  I tried to get some publicity for this 
> screwup, but since no money was involved, no one seems to really give a da#*.
>
> PayPal sent E-mails to their customers (my roommate brought it to my attention) which said:
>
> "Hello <name removed>,
>
> It looks like you may be using an outdated browser with known security issues.
>
> Help keep your computer and your PayPal account protected by updating your browser today."
>
> and included a link (much different from what was represented).
>
> When I looked at it initially, I told him (roommate) that it had to be a phish because PayPal would never send out
> something that was obviously a lie and include an obfuscated link as well.  Boy was I wrong.
> When I had some time to investigate further, I found that PayPal's Forum had quite a few members wondering if the 
> E-mail
> was 'official' or a 'scam' and that PayPal's spoof detection team (spoof () paypal com) was also confused and 
> returning
> conflicting opinions as to the validity of the E-mail.
> Thread locked (and posts removed) because folks were getting really mad.
> https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Fraud-phishing-and-spoof/New-scam/td-p/273626
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
> > On Behalf Of larrywidmyer () yahoo com
> > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 7:04 PM
> > To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Best practices for preventing malware in a small business
> > environment?
> >
> > I'm concerned with my company's employees contracting rootkits via
> > normal websurfing and wanted to find out if there's a good way to
> > prevent this from happening.  Antivirus software on the PC's help a
> > little, but they still don't catch everything.  Is there something else
> > that can be implemented on my network to help prevent malware being
> > installed through websurfing?
>
>
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