Cybersecurity

The Hacker Halted USA event organized by the professional organization EC-Council is held once a year and it brings together technical experts in the field of information security as well as a business audience.

Another memorable installment of the Latin American Security Analysts Summit has come and gone! This time it was held in the exquisite city of Santiago de Chile, where journalists from all over the region were greeted by Kaspersky Lab’s research team for two full days of knowledge and a little bit of leisure.

The security giant Kaspersky Lab launched its lavish acceleration program and a team of mentors, including myself, took their seats on the front row, waiting for the most brilliant and innovative minds to take the stage and convince us that they deserve a spot in the Bootcamp.

“Indicators of compromise” help to use threat data effectively: identify malware and quickly respond to incidents. These indicators are very often included in threat reports. How should information system administrators use this data in practice?

Blackhat and Defcon 2015 are being held in Las Vegas this year in the Mandalay Bay and Paris hotels, with 9,000 people in Blackhat attendance and more at Defcon.

REcon 2015 was a great conference with many interesting talks and people. It is always great to meet other reverse engineers from all over the world and discuss new techniques, tools and research.

The past Saturday we had the privilege of participating in this year’s edition of “Nuit du Hack”, a French security conference.

This week we joined droves of vendors and executives in celebrating InfoSecurity Europe’s 20 year anniversary.

Presentation content here mostly focuses on technologies used in fighting malware and the general misuse of mobile and computing power for serious criminal activities.

The RSA Conference 2015 is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It a massive event, with thousands of people in attendance.

Last week, we had the privilege to participate in and present at the 15th edition of CanSecWest in beautiful Vancouver, BC, along with its famous accompaniment, the ever famous Pwn2Own competition.

Over the last decade DKIM signatures have become an important technology in the extensive list of methods for fighting against spam. In this article we investigate the structure of DKIM, reveal the main advantages and downsides of this technology and explore typical spammers’ tricks for forging DKIM signatures.

Users trust files signed with digital certificates, so cybercriminals are always keen to attach these certificates to their malicious files. This article explores the main threats associated with signed files, and proposes practical ways of minimizing the risks associated with launching them.

A cutting-edge IT security conference, was held from 18th -19th December. It was the second round, following its first occurrence in February 2014.

This year’s 17th Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers international conference, “AVAR 2014” came back to Sydney, Australia with the theme “Security Down-Under”.