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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘research’
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 [...]
ExcaliburCon summary and general China notes
So, It’s been quite some time since ExcaliburCon has been concluded, and I have been delaying this post due to some other work related activities that jumped on me right as I landed back home. Anyway, I’ll try to cover as much as I can remember (thanks to a cumulative photographic memory of all the [...]
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 [...]
Botnet communications moving to Web2.0
Botnets moving to web2.0 communication utilizing twitter (and web services in the future) to communicate.
Practical vs. Regulatory – the votes are in!
I was thinking about translating my recent article I wrote for the Israeli Insurance Association (see my last post), but decided to completely rewrite it so it would apply to a more general public rather than to the select few insurance industry professionals in Israel. The basic realm of what we are all doing on [...]