Barracuda Profile Protector
Barracuda Profile Protector is a free service that protects social networking users against malicious threats on Facebook and Twitter. The application analyzes user-generated content posted to profiles and is able to block or remove malicious or suspicious content. This includes malicious URLs, embedded photos and/or videos on Facebook and Twitter pages and news feeds. Social networking users can install Profile Protector at www.profileprotector.com.

Barracuda Labs 2011 Social Networking Security & Privacy Study
The Barracuda Labs 2011 Social Networking Security & Privacy Study focuses on social networking usage, security and privacy, and is based on survey results from hundreds of users representing over 20 countries. The study was conducted over a two-week span between September and October 2011. Overall, users value security and privacy almost equally to popularity and ease of use...

WEBCAST:
Social Networking & Security: Are They Compatible?
Click here to view Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and VP of Barracuda Networks, give the Keynote Presentation at Security BSides London in April 2011..

WEBCAST:
The State of Web Application Security: More Important Than Coffee?
Is your company spending more on coffee than keeping its Web sites and Web applications secure? According to a recent study on Web application security by the Ponemon Institute, the answer is yes. Conducted on behalf of Barracuda Networks and Cenzic, the survey questioned more than 600 IT security practitioners from a range of industries and with an average of 11 years of experience in their profession, about their current Web application security strategies and expectations for the coming year. View the eye-opening findings.

Barracuda Labs 2010 Annual Security Report
The Barracuda Labs 2010 Annual Security Report indicates that attackers are making a shift from using email spam to more aggressively targeting the Internet. Email spam dropped by half during 2010, while search engine malware doubled and the Twitter Crime Rate increased 20 percent, signifying a concentrated focus on the more lucrative social networks and search engines as attack vectors.

WEBCAST: Gartner keynote
The Dangers of Laptops, Smartphones & Social Media to Enterprise Security
Every day there are hundreds of examples of personal activity that turn into business risk. The popularity of smart phones and tablet computing is rapidly blurring the line between personal and business Internet use. Social media and other Web 2.0 applications change the way we interact with the Web and how it interacts with us, giving hackers many new opportunities to insert themselves. More often, the attack on users during personal or recreational Internet use can then be used to target their employers’ networks and data. How big is your risk?

Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report
This report contains a study of Bing, Google, Twitter and Yahoo!, over a roughly two-month period. The analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors. Additionally, Barracuda Labs analyzed more than 25 million Twitter accounts, both legitimate and malicious. The purpose of this part of the study was to measure and analyze account behavior on Twitter in order to model normal user behavior and identify features that are strong indicators of illegitimate account use.

Barracuda Labs 2009 Annual Report
This report includes a review of 2009 Web, email and social networking trends. This report specifically drills into the fastest-growing social networking application, Twitter. We reviewed 19 million Twitter accounts, analyzing both legitimate and malicious users based on the frequency and content of tweets, user-to-user interactions, and each account’s overall activity level.

BarracudaCentral.org
BarracudaCentral.org provides insight to the real-time system that collects data and feedback from the over 100,000 Barracuda Networks customers and makes new intelligence and functionality available to those customers via Energize Updates.

Barracuda Reputation Block List
Starting in September 2008, Barracuda Networks introduced the Barracuda Reputation Block List as a free DNSBL of IP addresses known to send spam.

EmailReg.org
EmailReg.org provides a whitelist of legitimate email servers with their domains to reduce the chance of false positives while spam filtering.

Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog
Visit our Internet security blog to read the latest research findings, trends and opinions from our Barracuda Labs research team!