Fraser Howard is principal virus researcher at Sophos.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today
announced that it has published a new podcast
discussing zero-day threats (a threat which has been released into
the wild before security vendors have issued protection against
it).
In the podcast, Sophos principal virus researcher Fraser Howard
describes what zero-day threats are, addresses the controversy
surrounding the disclosure of vulnerability information, and offers
advice to users and administrators on how to defend against
malicious attacks.
"Hackers can attack users by targeting unpatched vulnerabilities
in your operating system and software applications. This is
particularly dangerous when the software vendor has not yet
released a patch against the problem," said Carole Theriault, host of
the Sophos podcast. "Users of all operating systems, even Vista
with its enhanced security features, should be on their guard
against zero-day threats. In this podcast Fraser describes how
consumers and businesses can best defend themselves from
attack."
All Sophos podcasts are available for download at www.sophos.com/podcasts. Previous podcasts have
covered topics such as managed appliances, image spam, phishing,
Microsoft Windows Vista, corporate security policies, network
access control, web threats, and rootkits.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.