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CyberSoft News For April 2005

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL VSTK/P USERS

Please read this important message concerning virus signatures!

**IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL VSTK/P USERS** Please read this important message concerning virus signatures!

As virus writers push the envelope and create new methods for hiding the presence of their viruses, it becomes more difficult to develop signatures to detect those viruses and still maintain 100% backward compatibility with earlier versions of VSTK and VSTKP.

In order to provide our customers who use the latest version of VSTK/VSTKP with the highest level of protection possible, we have added two new VDL sets that require at least VSTK/VSTKP version 166 (VFind version 13.11.3) and another two that require at least VSTK/VSTKP version 168 (VFind version 15.1.0). In order to activate these new VDL sets, you will have to download a replacement vdl.list file and replace the one included in the TAR file every time you update.

USE OF EITHER OF THESE FILES IN EARLIER VERSIONS WILL CAUSE ERRORS!

CYBERSOFT STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU UPGRADE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF VSTK/VSTKP TO ACHIEVE THE MAXIMUM LEVEL OF PROTECTION.

Please contact Neil Woodland for information on upgrading at 610-825-4748 or woodland@cyber.com

To enable these these new VDL sets and download the latest Virus Definitions. Please go to http://update.cybersoft.com

For customers using the vdlupdate script to download and install the latest updates, we have updated the script to automaticaly download the updated vdl.list file. Follow these steps to update your copy of the script:

1. Go to http://update.cybersoft.com and download vdlupdate.tar
2. cd to VSTK_HOME (this is usually /opt/vstk but your local installation may be different)
3. tar -xf vdlupdate.tar

This should replace bin/vdlupdate with a new copy that is 4770 bytes long with a date of April 4, 2005 and time of 14:10. The MD5 checksum is 883146a4bdcc18c5c3b6bc63b75b085a

This can be verified by executing the following command from VSTK_HOME: bin/cit bin/vdlupdate

IF YOU ARE USING A VERSION OF VSTK OR VSTKP OLDER THAN 166, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THIS VERSION OF vdlupdate.

IF YOU ARE USING VERSION 166 OR 167 OF VSTK OR VSTKP, COMMENT OUT LINE 47 IN THE SCRIPT AND UNCOMMENT LINE 44.

Pattern Authority Monitors Content for Property Loss

Pattern Authority secures intellectual property by analyzing structure, content and potential obfuscation.

Intellectual property is the new barometer for business success in the Information Age. In today's marketplace, companies that are rich with intellectual property are more competitive than their financially wealthy counterparts. Acquiring businesses, investing in research and generating new solutions that result in next generation products are the keys to responding to rapidly changing markets. These intellectual investments frequently go unprotected, and often find their way out of a business as quickly as they found their way in.

Businesses are failing to protect these knowledge investments with adequate data policy and enforcement practices. The majority of businesses don't even know what Intellectual Property they have, not to mention how much of it has left their organization. Arguably, the biggest threat to an organization is losing its intellectual assets by poor information management practices. Employees often don't know the policy for sharing information, or lack the ability to discern between public and sensitive information. Consultants, malicious employees and even partnerships may cause undo harm to a business by opening pathways for IP to leak out of an organization.

CyberSoft, using its intelligence engine, has developed a comprehensive solution for OEM's to protect their customer's IP assets. This engine is the result of military recommendations to identify comprehensively extremely complex and hidden patterns. Using 15 years of defense industry development, Pattern Authority can effectively neutralize IP loss for an organization at the electronic perimeter. Pattern Authority stops even the most malicious forms of IP loss by leveraging technology originally designed to identify obscure national threat signals. Pattern Authority can identify patterns that were intentionally hidden by removing unnecessary characters and structure, or simply stop the transmission of data when an absent minded employee sends proprietary information.

Here's an example.

Joe Employee creates a web based email account from a public domain such as hotmail. In most circumstances, this is not a malicious activity and is typically acceptable by an organization. One week before Joe gives his notice to leave the organization, he decides that the customer database is as much his as it is the organization's. He copies the customer database from its original form into a spreadsheet and renames the file.

Most companies would not even know that their database has just been compromised. Additionally, the company may in jeopardy of losing business to its newfound competitor, Joe Enterprises.

Pattern Authority would allow a business to prevent any Internet transfer that contains this IP. Preventing Joe from sending customer databases, confidential presentations, or other property via electronic means would be prevented when using Pattern Authority.

Content Filtering is one more advantage for enterprise OEM's to partner with CyberSoft. Pattern Authority is the only single source engine capable of stopping malicious attacks from virus, spyware and spam threats, in addition to enforcing compliance and data policy. OEM's that integrate Pattern Authority receive complete control of their product, rather than relying on third parties to update and maintain their solutions.

For more information on Pattern Authority or to receive information on how to evaluate Pattern Authority for your business, contact CyberSoft International 800-781-7262.

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