Cybercrime

Nearly three years old, the Conficker worm continues to pose a threat to PCs. Aryeh Goretsky wants to know why this is, and what can be done about it.

Aryeh Goretsky interviewed, as his paper on Possibly Unwanted Applications is published.

In their presentation “Cybercrime in Russia: Trends and issues” at CARO2011 -- one of the best presentations of the workshop, in my unbiased opinion ;-) -- Robert Lipovsky, Aleksandr Matrosov and Dmitry Volkov mentioned the Win32/Hodprot malware family, which seems to be undergoing something of a resurgence.

"Infrastructure Attacks: The Next Generation?" now includes the speaker notes, which hopefully makes it more interesting and useful.

...the 'next Stuxnet' probably won't be any such thing, whatever we may choose to call it...

...whatever the hacker community's personal taste is in games and consoles, gamers are a tempting target...