The worldwide list of P2P clients grows everyday. We at safemedia are tracking over 650 and upwards of 70% of them are using encryption to hide from detection. Other tricks like port hoping are also deployed. IFPI estimates that 19% of the virus's infecting systems come from P2P file sharing.
Firewalls and Content filter solutions fail at stopping encryption no matter how much time you spent looking at the rules. This subject gets real personal when your identity is stolen.
Whenever we host clients in our lab we always pull up income tax returns. People that filed last week are delivered to whatever P2P client we have running. It's also easy to find company confidential information. This is the major hole in network security.
Bill WeissApr 30th, 2008 - 21:54:20
The worldwide list of P2P clients grows everyday. We at safemedia are tracking over 650 and upwards of 70% of them are using encryption to hide from detection. Other tricks like port hoping are also deployed. IFPI estimates that 19% of the virus's infecting systems come from P2P file sharing.
Firewalls and Content filter solutions fail at stopping encryption no matter how much time you spent looking at the rules. This subject gets real personal when your identity is stolen.
Whenever we host clients in our lab we always pull up income tax returns. People that filed last week are delivered to whatever P2P client we have running. It's also easy to find company confidential information. This is the major hole in network security.
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