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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
URL shortening services are very useful and is great especially for those social networking sites (facebook, twitter, etc.). I have nothing against the use of TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, ping.fm and other URL shortening services. I am sharing the information that sometimes useful things are being abused by the bad guys. These bad guys can create […]
This is a long delayed post. Was really busy with some office stuffs when I arrived to Cupertino office. So the highlights: Day 3 Ira Winkler’s Is Google Evil? preso is a good one. He discusses some good points on potential Google apps with controversial policies. (From CNET/Schmidt, Google Streetview, UK protests, Japan Legal issues, […]
Some of my favorite topics for the RSA 2009 Day 2: On the keynotes side: I like the Moving Towards ‘End to End Trust’: A Collaborative Effort from MS’s Scott Charney. It shows the effort and commitment of MS on building the trust from end to end perspective. On the afternoon sessions its worth mentioning […]
First things first, what is RSA 2009 Conference? It is the biggest Information Security Industry Conference and Exposition. I promised in my last post that I will update this blog with my San Francisco and RSA adventures so here we go… Monday, April 20, 2009 is Day 1 for the RSA 2009 conference in San […]