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2012 Threat Predictions
Listen to Raimund’s 12 predictions for how threats will change in 2012. He forecasts threats related to consumerization, mobile devices, application vulnerabilities, social networking, botnets and more. [Transcript: I want to talk about our threat predictions for 2012. So what is going on out there. Actually for 2012 we did 12 predictions because it somehow fits. And what is affecting the threat landscape. We see two big IT threats One is consumerization. More and more people bring their own devices into an organization. And data is stored onto these mobile devices, maybe replicated to a cloud so it is not clear where the data is anymore. It’s all a big cloud you could say , and the data’s on the move so their old traditional means of defense where you had fortress around...
Real Time Threat Managem...
We just have discovered a series of ongoing targeted attacks which affected 1465 computers in 61 different countries. With all the security controls and IDS/IPS systems in place, how could this happen? [Transcript] We just have discovered a series of ongoing targeted attacks. We call it Lurid and details are on www.blog.trendmicro.com . A lot of organizations especially government bodies have been infected in 61 different countries. We have been able to identify 1465 computers being target, being successfully infiltrated and information stolen from these computers. We called it a once persistent threat. But it wasn’t that at once. Because of exploits being used in Adobe Acrobatic Reader to actually execute to start the malware to infect the computers was well known and they also...
Live from Oktoberfest: S...
What do you do when your employee leaves their phone at Oktoberfest (or any other drinking establishment!)? On his way to Oktoberfest in Munich, Raimund talks about the risks and difficulties in securing mobile devices. (If you are having difficulties with the accent, here is a transcript!:) [Transcript] I’m dressed funny today and why? Because it’s Oktoberfest in Munich and the German team of Trend Micro will be at Oktoberfest this afternoon. We will celebrate, we will have a little bit of beer and we will have a good time. When you look inside the tents you see all the people now using mobile devices tweeting, texting, taking pictures. Actually you have 7 million visitors at Oktoberfest every year. And I would say most of them have these devices so it’s actually a...
