Botnet communication using newsgroups is old news as web2.0 twitter and blog channels have been used for a long time.
Posts Tagged ‘predictions’
Are you LinkedIn/Facebooked/Twittered/Beboed/Viadeoed/etc?
I’ve just finished reading a great little note from Brian Krebs on the Washington Post that enabled me to “out” (don’t worry, I won’t) an incident that some of us in the security industry have been following in the last few days. One of “ours” has been hijacked on Tweeter, and the impersonator who hijacked [...]
Conficker madness – good or bad?
Just like BBC’s botnet debacle which fueled a vivid discussion amongst security circles, debating if the exposure is good (i.e., raising awareness to the threat) or bad (i.e., not really ethical, everyone knew about the ability to rent a botnet), CBS’s 60 minutes had a 15 minute spot focusing on Conficker. Check it out here: [...]
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 [...]
The great AV vs. AV debacle starts again?
It’s been a while since security vendors clashed on technology and made “bold” statements referring to the competition. Maybe is the recession, and in an attempt to grab some attention (and bolster sales), come statements such as “Heuristics are dead” (with a response from Sunbelt), and a direct jab at a competitor from Damballa. My [...]
It’s a browser! It’s an Operating System! It’s… brOSer?!
After looking into the security issues and requirements that Microsoft has been working on in terms of the future browser, and based on our earlier predictions on the matter, comes an interesting interview with Google’s Chrome Javascript head Lars Bak. Specifically check out the 3rd page of the article which discusses the ever increasing ambiguity [...]
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 [...]
If Gears was a problem then how about running Gmail offline on Air?
So, yesterday I wrote about the new (and much expected) vulnerabilities in Google’s Gears technology. The issue is clear – Gears is picking up speed and traction as Google’s applications start to use it (i.e. Gmail, Docs, etc…) and its security model is being scrutinized. And then I stumbled across GeeMail. It’s basically offline Gmail [...]
The oracle strikes again – “Browser OS” threats start to appear
Moving on from the social networking issues we outlined in the past couple of weeks, after following the predictions, and their materialization (here, here, here in the announcement of Gmail offline, here, and here), we can already see the “Browser OS”, as we dubbed it in our annual threat and predictions report, begin to materialize [...]
More predictions see the light of day?
A recent report from McAffee reaffirms our 2009 predictions, and talks about how eCrime is starting to benefit from ex-employees, noting that this trend is not limited to the IT guys… As we recall – the possibility to participate in the emerging eCrime business is closer than ever, with a quick buck to be made, [...]