BARCELONA — A researcher says that malicious software such as botnets and browser exploit kits are becoming more and more interdependent, complicating the job of those who seek to detect and remove the malware.
BARCELONA–As in life, reputations on the Internet take time to build up. Attackers interested in making a quick buck aren’t necessarily the most patient lot, so as the various repuation systems on the Web have gotten more sophisticated and accurate, the bad guys have had to adjust their tactics and find new ways to evade them and plant their command-and-control servers.
It was one of those odd moments where the entire online community was briefly unified in its mourning of the tech visionary, Apple co-founder, and former CEO whose life-work has demanded nearly universal respect. But as with everything else on the Internet, it didn’t last long. The dregs of the Web showed up in short-order to exploit the death of Steve Jobs, who died of cancer last night at the age of 56.
BARCELONA–Successful targeted attacks against companies such as RSA, Google and others have made huge splashes in the news in the last year or two and drawn a lot of attention to the phenomenon. But it’s not just the successful attacks that are interesting, security researchers say. In many cases, the failures contain the really useful data.
The Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security met with various other government agencies and private-sector leaders yesterday to discuss the need for a code of conduct for detecting, mitigating, and otherwise dealing with botnets.
BARCELONA–China may have caught and passed many western nations in terms of economic power and military might, but, despite its reputation as a major player in the malware economy, many of the bots and DDoS tools that come out of the country are shoddy, cobbled-together malware full of bugs and with no real effort made to hide themselves.
BARCELONA — Rootkit programs are increasingly mimicking anti virus programs: adopting self protection features and even application whitelists to maintain control over the systems they control, according to a presentation at the annual Virus Bulletin Conference.
BARCELONA–As online crime continues to grow in volume and expand in scope, encompassing a massive number of scams and operations around the world, security researchers, lawmakers and others are pushing for better cooperation among law enforcement agencies and the security community in taking down the attackers behind these schemes. There are precious few examples of successful operations that have succeeded in recent years, but one that can be considered a model of how things can work is the investigation into the m00p malware-writing crew that began more than seven years ago.
Facebook, a wildly popular social media platform you may or may not have heard of has partnered with the security firm, Websense, in order to better protect the network’s some 800 million users from malicious links leading to websites hosting malware.
With the resignation of longtime CEO Steve Jobs still looming in its rear view mirror, Apple Computer will be on the marketing offensive this week when it releases a major upgrade to its popular iPhone mobile phone line and talks up a pending update to its iOS mobile operating system.
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