As I promised in my previous post, here are some of the important keynotes, talks, and panel discussions at RSA 2012:
The opening keynote by RSA chairman, Art Coviello, entitled "Sustaining Trust in a Hyperconnected World," highlighted the immensity and increasing rate of targeted attacks, including the one that befell RSA last year. He also mentioned that "risk" is a function of three components—how vulnerable you are to attacks, how likely you are to be targeted, and how much is at ...
A federal judge approved the U.S. Government’s request to continue to run clean DNS servers for DNS Changer -infected victims by 120 days. The U.S. Government was initially granted a request to permit a private company to replace the rogue DNS servers with normal DNS servers. This previous decision also stated that the replacement servers must halt its operation by March 8, 2012. But with this decision, these servers have 4 more months to operate. This extension is supposed to ...
While everyone on the Internet seems to want to add commentary on the announced Lulzsec arrests today, I might as well jump in with my own thoughts on the matter.
While it is great to see those who break the law get brought to justice, I think there is a much larger issue underlying the growing Hacktivist phenomenon.
First, I think the more important message here, and that is that these arrest really don't change the trajectory of Hacktivist attacks – the ...
Just as the saying goes that there are many ways to skin a cat, threat investigation can also be done a handful of different ways, employing various expertise, especially when dealing with a threat employing several pieces of malware and a relatively robust C&C infrastructure.
But even though methodologies may change, whether through reverse engineering or analysis of the botnet infrastructure, the goal of understanding what the threat is all about is the number one priority.
Trend Micro is fortunate enough to ...
2011 was rife with both challenges and wins not only for Trend Micro but also for the rest of the security industry and our fellow cybercrimefighters in law enforcement. True to one of our predictions, 2011 has been dubbed the “Year of Data Breaches,” as we witnessed organizations worldwide succumb to targeted breach attacks and lose what we have come to know as the new digital currency—data.
As we prepare for the year ahead, let us take a look at some ...
