Roll out Some Encryption is a song number played at the opening day keynote session of the RSA 2010 Conference. The song was played by the band Live Wire at the event venue (Moscone Center) as well as in the Codebreakers Bash in San Francisco City Hall. As RSA conference’s theme for this year is the Rosseta Stone, hieroglyphics and Egypt, the lyrics of the song “Walk Like an Egyptian”… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Conference
Everybody here in RSA 2010 are talking about the Cloud and Cloud Security!!! Whooah! I’m very glad that my company (Trend Micro) have a good head-start on this topic!!! (trying to relive my FUNtastic skit adlibs)
I would like to share some random pics I shot In the RSA 2010 Conference here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I will make it six random pics in the… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Antivirus, Conference
Zynga is the developer of the popular games in Facebook (Cafe World, Mafia Wars, Petville, Fishville, FarmVille, Zynga poker and YoVille to name a few). And it seems that they and their forum users are the target of bad guys via this phishing email reported by Vitalsecurity.org
Here is a sample image of the phishing mail
Gaming, Technology
Cafe World, facebook, Fishville, mafia wars, PetVille
It’s been a while since I last posted a tech and security related post. So let me start the year by posting this useful note.
I got some notification that an Adobe update is available on their website. I remembered from the malware blog entry that they (Adobe) have an unpatched 0-day being used by an in-the-wild malware so I checked their website as well the their PSIRT… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Adobe
Note: The article below was published in TrendLabs Malware Blog on November 23, 2009.
Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site
by Menard Osena (Solutions Product Manager)
Trend Micro threat analysts recently unearthed spammed messages that purported to have come from Trend Micro. Targeting trusted organizations is not an uncommon technique, used by cybercriminals when carrying out spam campaigns. In this case, the malicious… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Antivirus, TrendLabs
I’m in Taipei since Saturday noon. I attended Trend Micro’s PaJaMa 2009 conference held at the Sunworld Dynasty Hotel Taipei. PaJaMa 2009 – The Smart Protection Network Conference’s tagline was “Be the light that brings the rainbow” and I am sharing some of my personal insights and experience here in my blog.
What is PaJaMa conference? It’s not a… Read the rest of this entry »
Personal Experiences, Technology
Conference
In the RSA 2009 Conference that I attended early this year, I participated in an exercise called Six Word Memoirs. In this exercise the organizers invited the attendees to tell the story of their life with one big catch – do it in only six words. This is quite a challenge, I know most of the attendees are tech freaks and geeks but explaining our life and our stuffs… Read the rest of this entry »
Personal Experiences, Technology
Conference, RSA
Note: The article below was published in Computerworld Philippines July 2009 issue (print edition, Web Security Lifeline, page 55). I got permission from ComputerworldPH to republish it in my personal blog recently.
Effective Security Practices in the Workplace: Keeping Your Business Safe
By Menard Oseña
When it comes to information security, the human element is still the… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Computerworld
I was browsing the web and noted that a lot of blogs and news sites have posting on the iphone virus and iphone hacking topic. I was intrigued so I did some researching and some connecting of the dots: this week is Black Hat Security Conference week and somebody must have demo’d some iphone hacking stuffs. My guess was right 
quoting Cnet News
LAS VEGAS–Researchers have discovered a… Read the rest of this entry »
Technology
Antivirus, iPhone
In my post on MyBrute Cheats, I mentioned that bad guys may abuse the popularity of the Mybrute game.
I’m predicting that some bad guys will use the popularity of MyBrute. This is Social Engineering 101…
I totally missed to point out that same possibility on the Katrina Halili scandal download post that I made a few days after.
And then came TROJ_DLOAD.TID… Read the rest of this entry »
Blog Experiences, Technology
Pinay Scandal
