Skilled, determined attackers can break, enter and succeed within minutes. Other times, they spend days plotting, establishing backdoors and fortifying their positions inside your company. This sophistication and persistence presents challenges for those trying to scope, contain and remediate the threat. Here's what a typical economic espionage attack looks like.

The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of  a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and  Google Mail.

DNS cache pollution can occur if Domain Name System (DNS) "spoofing" has been encountered. The term "spoofing" describes the sending of non-secure data in response to a DNS query. It can be used to redirect queries to a rogue DNS server and can be malicious in nature.

This video tour of a Google data center highlights the security and data protections that are in place at Google data centers.

The inside of the Symantec Security Operations Center looks like a scene out of the movie "War Games," and in many ways, the connection is fitting. The SOC, as it is known by Symantec employees, is in the business of detecting and analyzing network threats. And as malicious activity online gets increasingly more sophisticated, the war against cybercrime is definitely on.

Cyber spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on Web sites focused on human rights, defense and foreign policy.