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Computer virus analysis course
TECHNOLOGY personnel now have the opportunity to be certified as anti-
virus professionals to prepare them to face the many cyber threats which
can cause financial setbacks, job losses and operational delays in
organisations.
Realising the need to equip IT staff with skills on computer virus
analysis, Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd and Trend Micro have entered into a
partnership to offer a course, called Trend Micro Certified Anti-virus
Professional (TCAP), designed for that purpose.
"The IT staff is the front line of defence against such threats and
should be equipped with knowledge on anti-virus software to ensure the
business continuity of an organisation," says Iverson Associates' managing
director Dr Yap Chee Sing.
The TCAP certification will offer a hands-on approach on tackling
viruses. It is targeted at network administrators, technical support
engineers, network analysts, technical consultants and security
specialists. It is also suitable for those with competent knowledge on
computer viruses, networking concepts, hardware and Windows interface and
registry.
For the course, 50 per cent of the participants' time will be spent
conducting hands-on virus analysis on the Windows platform. Generic anti-
virus tools will be utilised and participants will learn the manual
process of combating malware, although the course is designed by Trend
Micro's global anti-virus and support centre TrendLabs.
The TCAP certification will add a competitive edge for IT job seekers in
today's changing job market, Yap says.
Iverson currently deploys two certified TCAP trainers. Each trainer will
moderate 10 participants per class at any one time.
The duration of the course is five days. At RM3,900 per person, the
course consists of seven learning modules with exercises as well as a
practical examination. The examination paper will be marked at TrendLabs,
and participants need to acquire an overall score of 85 per cent to obtain
the certification.
According to the National ICT Security Emergency Response Centre
(Niser), among the cybersecurity incidents hitting enterprises in Malaysia
this year include intrusion attacks, denial-of-service attacks, malicious
code, hack threats, forgery, harassment and mail bombs.
Among these incidents, intrusion attacks make up the highest number of
reported cases in Malaysia this year, with 382 reported cases, excluding
spam, up until July.
In terms of hack threats, about three-quarters of the reported incidents
Niser receives concern Web defacement, either mass defacement or
redefacement. While Web defacement constitutes the most hacking incidents
here, phishing and pharming are increasingly becoming the main types of
hacking.

Preference : Foo,E.J.(2005,November 21). Computer virus analysis course.New Straits Times.

NEW ANTI-VIRUS EDITION FOR GAMERS










NORTON AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition is designed with the gaming community
in mind, from protecting assets earned on massive multi-player games to
keeping malware at bay. It stops viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans,
keyloggers, bots and infected Web sites.
The new gamer mode keeps you protected but won't bother you while you
are in the middle of a game. It suspends updates, alerts and other
background activities and is automatically enabled when the system is in
full screen mode, or easily manually enabled.
Smart scheduling, meanwhile, holds resource-intensive actions such as
system scans when the computer is idle.
There are also customisable security settings that allow gamers to reach
the performance and protection balance they want.
This performance-driven release installs in under a minute, uses less
than six megabytes of memory, adds less than one second to boot time, and
averages scans in less than 35 seconds.
Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition, which is now available at all
major retail outlets and at http://my.symantecstore.com, retails at RM129
for a one-PC licence, which includes a one-year service subscription to
use the product and get Symantec's protection updates.
Symantec is offering consumers Norton AntiVirus 2009 Gaming Edition at a
special introductory price of RM79 for a one-PC licence until Feb 27.

reference:
New Anti-Virus Edition for Gamers.(2009,february 2).New Strait Times.

Worried, but they don't buy anti-virus protection

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians are very concerned about their online privacy and data security. But, ironically, many do not have anti-virus protection for their computers. These were the findings of an international survey commissioned by F-Secure. It was conducted by Zoomerang in May in Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. A total of 1,450 respondents were surveyed. An average of 49 per cent of the respondents said they had been hit by  malware in the past 12 months, but their security software had notified them and prevented infection.
Malware, short for malicious software, is designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.
       "Germany seems to combine a high level of worry with a low level of exposure to the actual threats. "Caution is good when surfing the Web but being overly concerned may also prevent people from experiencing the full benefits of the Web. "There is also a learning curve - as people become exposed to threats, they also learn how to deal with new situations and become more confident and less concerned," said F-Secure security response senior manager Chia Wing Fei.
       The survey results also showed that many computer users around the world were still unsure about security issues. For example, many did not know if their computers had been infected. In Sweden, the figure was 38 per cent, followed by US (34 per cent), UK (33 per cent) and Germany (32 per cent).
Germans (65 per cent) and Malaysians (59 per cent) were the most concerned about downloading malware from a website, compared with just 22 per cent of respondents in Finland. An average of seven per cent of respondents in the seven countries did not know what malware was, with the highest scores recorded in the UK (12 per cent), United States (12 per cent) and Malaysia (nine per cent). The risk of  poisoned search results, which criminals use to lead people to malicious websites, was taken most seriously by the Germans and British.
       A significant proportion of Americans and the British were not aware what poisoned search results are. Rogue ware, such as the bogus security products that take computers hostage and fool people into making payments to remove fictitious malware, was a term only understood in Sweden and Poland.   The survey also found that credit card crime was most prevalent in the US, where 32 per cent of the respondents had personally experienced it or knew someone who had been a victim. Malaysia (27 per cent) and the UK (27 per cent) also reported a relatively high level of credit card crime, while the lowest incidence was in Poland (11 per cent) and Finland (12 per cent).


Reference:

     Ramachandran, S. (2010, October 10). Worried, but they don't buy anti-virus protection. New Straits Times. 

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