I got Spam?!

Here is another great video from DeepSec2007. This one is a talk about the Economics of Information Security. From the summary:

The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fastmoving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from … all » machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, we find that incentives are becoming as important as technical design in achieving dependability. The new field provides valuable insights not just into 'security' topics (such as bugs, spam, phishing, and law enforcement strategy) but into more general areas such as the design of peer-to-peer systems, the optimal balance of effort by programmers and testers, why privacy gets eroded, and the politics of digital rights management.

• SPAM, Viruses and the Blacklisting of Exchange Servers
• GFI Adds Support for January 2008 Microsoft Security Updates
• Spammers Use Lunar Eclipse to Deliver Malware
• New Phishing Attack Masquerades as Government Alert
• Spammers top 10 report: US Leading the Axis of Evil!
• Security Software Industry Takes First Steps Towards Forming Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization
• Judge Orders End to Weight Loss Spam Organization
• Botnet Source Code For Overachievers
• Using Throttling and Traffic Shaping to Fight Spam
• Phishing Sites Now Using the Storm Worm Botnet
• Japanese Spammer Accused of Sending Over 2 Million Spams

Filed under: Security measures Tags: by admin Date 25 February, 2008