Cybersecurity

Last week, we held our first Ibero-American virus analyst summit, to which we invited 34 journalists from 14 Latin American countries, as well as Spain and Portugal. Speakers and panelists included antivirus experts Jorge Mieres, Fabio Assolini, Vicente Diaz and Dmitry Bestuzhev.

When I travelled back from BlackHat and DefCon 19 and checked in at the Mc Carran airport in Las Vegas, one of the airport kiosks caught my eye.

APT is gaining much more press attention recently with RSA and Northrup Gruman intrusions making it into the news.

I’m here at Defcon watching the hacker masses share their information. As usual, it’s incredibly crowded, but the new venue at the Rio hotel is a welcome upgrade.

Almost 10,000 security pros, hackers and interested folks gathered at BlackHat USA this morning at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.

Blackhat USA 2011 wraps up and the Defcon conference starts today. There is a little something for everyone in security here. Aside from the contests, networking, meeting folks in the industry and putting faces to names, I thought that the briefings had two fantastic talks.

The 15th Cyber Crime Symposium, Shirahama with theme “Cloud Security” was held on May 26th – 28th at the “Big U” Information Exchange Center in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

This week I had the chance to deliver a presentation at one of the most famous and prestigious security conference in Brazil called “You sh0t the sheriff” now in its 5th edition.

Since yesterday I’ve been attending the annual Hack-in-the-Box Quad-Track Security Conference in Amsterdam/NL. There’s a very nice and open atmosphere here at the conference, besides the beautiful city of Amsterdam.

Workshop for students studying law and jurisprudence.

Earlier today, at 10 am sharp, Europe’s number one security event – InfoSec – opened its doors at Earl’s Court Hall, in London, UK

Security researchers from around the world are digesting the weekend’s fare at Infiltrate2011, organized by security outfit Immunity.

Since its inception in July of 2006 Twitter has grown to become an essential part of many people’s daily lives in just 140 characters. Twitter has also spawned multiple malware campaigns and continues to be a successful avenue of attack to this day.

Last week I attended one of the most important IT security conferences in Latin America – B:Secure. Five different AV vendors participated in it.

Hello everybody from CeBIT, one of the most important IT events in the whole world hosted in the nice city of Hannover.