Tag: press

  • Information Security Intelligence Report for 2010 and Predictions for 2011

    Looking back at 2010 shows a widening gap between cybercrime and law enforcement capabilities, in conjunction to nations that have started the cyber-race to develop defensive and offensive capabilities. Most of the attacks analyzed in 2010 depict organizations that fall behind in their defensive strategies as attackers take advantage of a hybrid approach that merges…

  • The Botnet Wars – industry Q&A

    I was approached recently by Bart P from Panda security in order to participate in an industry expert Q&A about the botnet wars (apparently he did his homework as he got quite the lineup to participate in this, guessed he can count me as a close miss :-)…). He managed to compile a great Q&A where…

  • Learning from stux, and connecting more dots in infosec

    Learning from stuxnet on how we are exposed to similar attacks. Connecting the dots between technology, society, and the human factor when talking about cyberwarfare.

  • The Turkish hack and another case for IL-CERT

    You have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of the Turkish hack a couple of days ago. Basically – a Turkish hacker forum that bolsters a strong anti-Israeli attitude has been practicing hacking and mostly defacing Israeli sites for the past few months (years). Now, this is nothing new, and as I…

  • Cyber[FUD]Fare – repost from fudsec.com

    As promised – here is the “official” cross-post from my guest appearance on fudsec.com. Enjoy! I’ve been intravenously fed with FUD for as long as I’ve been in the business. The main strategy for understanding that you are facing FUD is to realize that there is a financial motivation behind the FUD-spreading entity. This has…