Greenwood Village, Colorado – March 22, 2012 – zvelo, Inc. has announced its 100th OEM for its zveloDB™ – URL Database offering. These OEMs represent a wide array of markets, including online advertising, mobile security, anti-virus software, service providers, gateway appliance, business network security, web filtering, web analytics and more.
zvelo, a leading provider of website categorization, URL database (zveloDB®) and malicious website detection technologies for the OEM market, has expanded its automated URL categorization engine to support Arabic language web pages.
Details”Drive by” spam attacks are a growing business network security risk, affecting those who open emails containing a malicious script that downloads malware to the user’s PC that ultimately infects the company’s network. These emails don’t always include an attachment. Some HTML-based varieties are reported to be activated with the mere opening of an email and nothing more.
DetailsI had the privilege of discussing the state of mobile phone payments systems, like Google Wallet, on a local radio station show called “Backbone Radio” in mid-February, 2012, which is co-hosted by Joshua Sharf. The segment aired on 710-AM KNUS in Denver and 1460-AM KZNT radio out of Colorado Springs.
DetailsMuch has been said in the last few days about the security of the Android platform in general and Google Wallet specifically. One frequent question that has been asked of the Google Wallet PIN vulnerability we found is “should the average consumer be concerned about mobile device exploits that require root privileges?” The unfortunate answer is “yes.” The reason is that while it is true that this PIN vulnerability requires root privileges to succeed, it does not require that the device be rooted previously.
DetailsA senior engineer within zvelo, a leading provider of website categorization, URL database and real-time malicious website detection solutions for the OEM market, has discovered a significant security vulnerability in the Google Wallet mobile phone payment system.
DetailsCell phone-based credit card payments are a burgeoning industry. There is a great deal of backroom negotiation going on today among players like Google, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. They each want to establish themselves as a middleman in what they are betting will be a trillion dollar a year industry. The stakes are very high.
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With the increasing complexity of threats appearing on the Internet, coupled with the rapid development of security products designed to mitigate them, the number of phishing-based attacks have grown. In the first half of 2011 and compared to the second half of 2010, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reported a 62% increase in unique phishing attacks worldwide in 200 top-level domains (TLDs).1 This trend warrants swift action to address the growing threat.
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zvelo, a leading provider of website categorization, URL database (zveloDB®) and real-time malicious website detection solutions for the OEM market, has announced complete categorization support for Japanese and Dutch language web pages.
DetailsIPv6 enabled websites are steadily increasing as the availability of IPv4 addresses continue to diminish. While most current company network architectures already support IPv4, it is crucial that applications be ready to support the new IPv6. Migrating to IPv6 is not easy and challenges may arise involving both the network and application layers, as zveloLABS.
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