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The WebPulse collaborative defense powers Blue Coat’s Web Security portfolio, delivering fast and effective Web 2.0 threat protection for 75 million users worldwide. To keep pace with the evolving threat landscape, Blue Coat Security Labs continually adds new defenses to WebPulse that are immediately available to all 75 million users without updates or downloads.

In the future, Blue Coat Security Labs expects that nearly two-thirds of all new attacks will come from malnets. By identifying and tracking malnet infrastructures, the Blue Coat WebPulse collaborative defense can link new servers and domains to known malicious components and block them at the source, before they are used to launch attacks.

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SEP, Porn, and Malware - Lurking in the Boondocks

May 13, 2013 - By Chris Larsen
Out in the Boondocks of DynDNS I find myself spending a lot of time in the jungles of Dynamic DNS (DynDNS) hosted sites these days -- there is a lot of shady stuff going on in there. (And very little useful content, comparatively speaking, so it's probably a good idea to consider just blocking off this whole area, from a security standpoint...)

Health and Finance (The Spam Version of Death and Taxes)

May 7, 2013 - By Chris Larsen
It's been a while since we've posted about good old spam (the non-malicious kind, although sometimes the lines blur), so I thought I'd share some findings from last weekend's honeypot traffic.   Recent Trends First, we're seeing a *lot* of ".PW" domains involved in spam these days. In fact, unless you've got customers in Palau, you should probably consider blocking anything on their TLD (top-level domain).

Malnet: Wrath of the Gods

April 18, 2013 - By Chris Larsen | Co-Authored By An Anonymous Analyst
[Our anonymous analyst is back with another Donovan adventure. As always, the story is fictional, but the events described are true to life. --C.L.]   It started like any other day: gray clouds filling the sky, the rain dripping from the eaves, and not enough hot chocolate in the machine. I sat down at my computer and got to work. Who am I? The name's Donovan. I'm a Private Eye in the fight against malware.
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