I’ll spare you the “2009 security in review” which you can read just about anywhere else you go now. I’ll also avoid the “what to expect in security in 2010″ because everyone would just reiterate the same stuff they saw coming to life in 2009…
What I would do is give a quick preview on some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eCrime’
CyberCrime, CyberWarfare, and 2010
Mapping and Security Research
From the “We should have trademarked this” department: McAfee came out with their “Mapping the Mal Web“[PDF] report and are proving that innovation is best left for the smaller players to meddle with, only to be used later by the big guys.
Not that there is anything revolutionary about the report – it’s the same basic [...]
DefCon 17 talk video available!
DefCon 17 talk video of my talk
Malicious ads circa 2007
Malicious ads are plaguing the web? Not unless it’s news from 2007…
Down the rabbit hole all the way to Miami
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
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fighting eCrime? We are not there yet!
I was just reviewing the latest FBI report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) here (PDF), and although I’m sure that a lot of security vendors out there are going to jump on the “33% increase in internet fraud last year” statements, looking into the actual numbers, it’s important to realize how “off” they [...]