September 2011
4 posts
threatpost: The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet... →
“Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the...
The Last Watchdog: Trust in the Internet falters... →
“Digital certificates enable consumers to submit information that travels through an encrypted connection between the user’s web browser and a website server. The certificate assures the web page can be trusted as authentic. But the unprecedented attacks against CAs shows how fragile that trust can be.”
Word to the Wise: Are you ready for the next... →
“It’s been months since the first attacks. This is more than enough time to have implemented some response to reports of attacks. Yet, many people I talked to last week had no idea what they should or could be doing to protect themselves and their customers.”
Microsoft Research: Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime... →
“Far from being broadly-based estimates of losses across the population, the cyber-crime estimates that we have appear to be largely the answers of a handful of people extrapolated to the whole population. A single individual who claims $50,000 losses, in an N=1000 person survey, is all it takes to generate a $10 billion loss over the population. One unverified claim of $7,500 in...