RSA 2018: Behind the lines
ESET's Senior Security Researcher Stephen Cobb reflects on RSA 2018 and the state of the cybersecurity industry
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Is “Malware of Mass Disruption” the WMD of the future? Insights from the stage at RSA 2018
ESET's Global Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe expands on his theory
RSA 2018: IoT security comes of age
IoT security may have finally turned the corner towards a more secure future.
RSA 2018: Hacking the grid
The challenges facing critical infrastructure systems
RSA 2018: Untangling the enterprise security mess
Securely keeping track of data and security applications
Looking ahead to RSA 2018: An interview with ESET Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe
WeLiveSecurity sat down with Tony Anscombe, Global Security Evangelist and Industry Ambassador for ESET, to talk about RSA 2018, his talk at the conference, and what to expect.
Find the bad guy in a deluge of big data – RSA day three
So someone is attacking you, maybe with a flood of traffic as a noisy backdrop to distract you while the bad guy slips in undetected. So how do you stop the hacker amidst the noise, fast enough to act to stop the attack? That was the subject of many vendors and conversations at RSA –
SMB cyber security: we feel your pain – RSA day two
Day two of the show, and we ask vendors and participants what the pain points are for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB), especially in the category from 25 to 250 member organizations, even narrowing that to 100 employees or less. It seems this sector is largely missed by the large vendors on the show floor
Virtualization & Conferencing
David Harley is taking part in the keynote session (11.00-12.00 EST) on "APT: Real Threat or Just Hype" at US Infosecurity's Virtual Conference on November 8th.
Warming up for the Autumn Conferences
'Tis the season to get ready for the autumn round of security conferences.
Why the IMF breach?
In the absence of any detailed information from the IMF itself, it's not surprising that most of the surmise around the attack is based on internal IMF memos quoted by Bloomberg, and much of it is rather tenuous.
Spearphishing APT-itude Test
My latest blog for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner looked at the recent APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attack on RSA, in the light of Uri Rivner's blog on the implementation of the attack. Unfortunately, the exact nature of the target and damage remains somewhat obscure, so while I certainly consider Rivner's blog worth reading, I also found myself
February ThreatSense Report
The February ThreatSense Report is now available...
Patchwork for the Home and the Enterprise
SC Magazine's Dan Raywood reports that "To be completely patched requires an average of between 51 and 86 actions per year", quoting findings by Secunia that " in order for the typical home user to stay fully patched, an average of 75 patches from 22 different vendors need to be installed, requiring the user to
RSA, AMTSO, the Universe and Everything
There was an AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) panel session here at RSA, where Larry Bridwell, Righard Zwienenberg, Andreas Marx, Roel Schouwenberg and Neil Rubenking talked about AMTSO and what it does (and what it hopes to do). And I added to my list of qualifications for being involved with the organization: current vendor representative,
AMTSO and RSA
Greetings, friends and fiends. I've been uncharacteristically quiet for the past couple of weeks, due to the AMTSO workshop last week in Santa Clara. There was, as usual, some lively discussion: though no papers were approved at the meeting, some are close enough to finished to be voted on shortly. (See also the AMTSO blog