So the talk at Hacker Halted was really good – I was impressed with the quality of the audience and the presentations. As promised, I’m posting my slide deck here for your reference. Enjoy! Down_the_rabbit_Hole-Ian_Amit
Posts under ‘Security Research’
Two steps forward, one step back – controling botnets…
Botnet communication using newsgroups is old news as web2.0 twitter and blog channels have been used for a long time.
Drawing the line – securing an organization while thinking of users…
Securing sensitive organizational information where end-users that are not part of the organization need access to such said data and may even modify it.
Cyberwarfare and Cybercrime – more links turn out in study
Whenever you look at cybercrime/eCrime, the question always pops up – what is the link between this highly sofisticated economy and aggregation of technologies, with government affairs or cyberwarfare. The answer would usually be “it depends”… Actually depending on who you ask, and what level of involvement they have with studying cyberwarfare as well as [...]
Botnet communications moving to Web2.0
Botnets moving to web2.0 communication utilizing twitter (and web services in the future) to communicate.
Twitter spam – Spitter? Tpam?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the past couple of years, you have been exposed to Twitter in some shape or form. Having adopted the means of socializing myself not too long ago (been researching it’s security since day-0, jumped on the bandwagon a few months ago), you have to live with the [...]
Getting a business degree as part of Security Research?
What a great time to start thinking of travel – the weather is fairing up, June is here, and fortunately for me, I have a chance to take the driver seat again at another BlueHat conference! This time it’s in Brussels and I’m really looking forward to talking again about one of my favorite topics [...]
Credit cards on a clearance sale and your internet security
You may have already gotten yourself familiar with how eCrime works from our past research and field presence, but here is one more great example of this fascinating business: This article at the Washington Post covers the drop in prices of stolen credit cards. It talks about how a surge of “fresh merchandise” has hit [...]
Social aspects of web security – the March edition
It’s that time of the year again… March madness is engulfing us with news and pre-season activities, and everyone is out and about to see what we would be seeing in the coming months. Just as we have portrayed before, eCrime is a social animal just as well, and is not going to let the [...]
More on the browser OS – from Microsoft Research
After talking about how your next operating system is not going to be related to Windows or Mac or Linux (hint – you are reading this post using it… more details on our Annual report and predictions paper), I came across this research from Microsoft (direct to the PDF here) that talks about how to [...]