The DOWNAD/Conficker Jigsaw Puzzle

This blog post puts together Trend Micro’s own DOWNAD research as well as collaborative input from the Conficker Working Group. It includes the collected reports regarding DOWNAD as well as analysis of binaries in one coherent timeline of events to shed some light in the continuing DOWNAD/Conficker Jigsaw Puzzle. SETTING THE STAGE The rise [...]

UC security: When the shoe doesn’t fit — compress the foot

If your security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until a technology comes along, changes the assumptions and reveals the inadequacy of the model.

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