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https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/bg-p/emerging Emerging Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:13:50 GMT emerging 2009-01-06T12:13:50Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/DNS-Pharming-Attacks-Using-Rogue-DHCP/ba-p/370377 Following Dan Kaminsky’s research on DNS insecurities, we saw attackers racing with their DNS servers to hijack network connections. It was only a matter of time before the bad guys decided that racing against DNS was not enough. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:25:16 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/DNS-Pharming-Attacks-Using-Rogue-DHCP/ba-p/370377 Elia Florio 2008-12-05T01:25:16Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Symantec-At-the-Cutting-Edge-of-Technology/ba-p/355980 Last week's Cutting Edge event was an absolute blast. Cutting Edge is our internal technical conference where we gather top engineers, architects, and researchers from across Symantec globally to share ideas, best practices, technologies, imagination and energy. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:39:40 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Symantec-At-the-Cutting-Edge-of-Technology/ba-p/355980 Joe Pasqua 2008-10-08T18:39:40Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Symantec-How-We-Win-at-Securing-Customers-in-a-Virtual-World/ba-p/355581 Symantec's Cutting Edge 2008 engineering conference had a remarkable symmetry on the second day. The first keynote was delivered by Enrique Salem, COO of Symantec, and the last one by Chris Hoff, Chief Architect of Unisys. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:39:11 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Symantec-How-We-Win-at-Securing-Customers-in-a-Virtual-World/ba-p/355581 Tom Thomassen 2008-10-07T14:39:11Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Cutting-Edge-By-Engineers-For-Engineers/ba-p/355037 Symantec's Cutting Edge 2008 conference closed on Friday. As the Chair of this year's Cutting Edge conference, hosted each year by the Office of the CTO, I can say it was a wonderful opportunity to manage an event that brings together engineering groups across Symantec. Known as "a conference by engineers, for engineers," Cutting Edge continues to provides an atmosphere where people feel comfortable discussing ideas across organizations. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:51:50 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Cutting-Edge-By-Engineers-For-Engineers/ba-p/355037 Tom Thomassen 2008-10-03T20:51:50Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/How-We-Win-Openly/ba-p/354769 Here at Cutting Edge we have a lot of exciting technological developments and innovations to share. At the top of the list for me is the Symantec Open Collaborative Architecture (OCA), which prescribes a technology direction to enable collaboration among Symantec products and third party and partner products. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:10:08 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/How-We-Win-Openly/ba-p/354769 Rob Clyde 2008-10-02T22:10:08Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/It-s-All-About-Reputation/ba-p/354592 In a nutshell, Symantec's new approach to detecting threats automatically derives reputation ratings (e.g. safe, unknown, unsafe) for every executable file available on the Internet. The reputation ratings are derived automatically using algorithms not unlike Google's Page Rank algorithm, from literally billions of Norton Community Watch file reports from our tens of millions of participating users. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:54:41 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/It-s-All-About-Reputation/ba-p/354592 Carey Nachenberg 2008-10-02T13:54:41Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Losing-Touch-with-Fingerprinting/ba-p/354261 This Cutting Edge promises to be an interesting one. Why? The last few years have brought serious challenges to the dominant antivirus fingerprinting approach. Right now, the security industry is built around the fingerprinting model – all of our processes, our automation, our data collection, our publishing systems – they’re all designed around the blacklisting model. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:35:47 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Losing-Touch-with-Fingerprinting/ba-p/354261 Carey Nachenberg 2008-10-01T10:35:47Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Black-Hat-Review-Conclusion/ba-p/343486 Well, sadly the time seemed to fly by and last week's conference ended more quickly than I would have liked. I didn't have the time to stay in Vegas and attend the DEFCON conference either. Even though I really wanted to see Christopher Tarnovsky demonstrate smartcard/microcontroller fault induction in person, I decided to attend briefings that greatly complemented the briefings that I attended previously. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:47:54 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Black-Hat-Review-Conclusion/ba-p/343486 Anthony Roe 2008-08-14T18:47:54Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Black-Hat-Review-Day-1/ba-p/343017 The first day of the Black Hat conference briefings came to an end and in retrospect, it was far from bland. From Professor Angell’s esoteric keynote speech touching on how the combination of computers and human activity systems can spawn systemic risk, to a Palace 1 conference room packed wall-to-wall with eager ears ready to listen to Dan Kaminsky deliver his briefing for DNS titled “DNS Goodness.” Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:42:55 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Black-Hat-Review-Day-1/ba-p/343017 Anthony Roe 2008-08-13T16:42:55Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-BlackHat-2008-Attendee-Survey-Results-Are-In/ba-p/342131 On the opening day of BlackHat 2008, Symantec commissioned an anonymous survey among the attendees to learn about contemporary views on security related topics, such as vulnerability research, future threats and trends, and what types of challenges we as security professionals will collectively face in the coming year. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:42:03 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-BlackHat-2008-Attendee-Survey-Results-Are-In/ba-p/342131 Zulfikar Ramzan 2008-08-08T14:42:03Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Broken-Record-That-is-Neosploit/ba-p/321882 Lately, I have been feeling like a bit of a broken record, each week singing nearly the same tune. Well, this week is no exception. Neosploit has updated again. Starting on May 2, our honeypots again picked up an update to the omnipresent exploit kit. Thu, 08 May 2008 22:23:43 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Broken-Record-That-is-Neosploit/ba-p/321882 Sean Hittel 2008-05-08T22:23:43Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Practical-Cold-Boot-Attacks/ba-p/314857 Building on the Cold Boot research that was released in February of 2008, Tom Liston and Sherri Davidoff of Intelguardians presented “Cold Memory Forensics Work Shop” at CanSecWest 2008. When a system is cold booted Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Practical-Cold-Boot-Attacks/ba-p/314857 Josh Talbot 2008-03-27T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Running-on-AIR/ba-p/305997 Today, Adobe officially launched their new infrastructure for delivering rich Internet applications to your desktop- Adobe Integrated Runtime, or "AIR" for short. At first glance, Adobe AIR looks like a mash up of many of Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Running-on-AIR/ba-p/305997 Hon Lau 2008-02-25T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Emperor-Entertainment-Group-Web-Site-Hacked/ba-p/305994 Emperor Entertainment Group: From sex photo scandal to Web site being hacked, key word: protect the data on your hard drive. It's probably not the best way to advertise privacy protection, but it's indeed something Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Emperor-Entertainment-Group-Web-Site-Hacked/ba-p/305994 Symantec Security Response 2008-02-12T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Scandal-That-Wasn-t/ba-p/305995 Following on from yesterday's EEG Web site hack, a collection of recently registered sites, hosted on blogspot.com, claim to have obtained an explicit video featuring Hong Kong actor Edison Chen and actress Cecilia Cheung. When Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Scandal-That-Wasn-t/ba-p/305995 Silas Barnes 2008-02-12T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Same-Storm-Different-Day/ba-p/305993 As Valentines Day approaches, we see the Storm team have made yet another change in an effort to further populate their army of bots. A subsection of their herd that have been hosting the Valentines-related Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Same-Storm-Different-Day/ba-p/305993 Silas Barnes 2008-02-11T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/It-s-Not-a-Wonderful-Second-Life/ba-p/305991 It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses expected to see old Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/It-s-Not-a-Wonderful-Second-Life/ba-p/305991 Kevin Haley 2008-01-28T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Drive-by-Pharming-in-the-Wild/ba-p/305989 In a previous blog entry posted almost a year ago, I talked about the concept of a drive-by pharming attack. With this sort of attack, all a victim would have to do to be susceptible Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Drive-by-Pharming-in-the-Wild/ba-p/305989 Zulfikar Ramzan 2008-01-22T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Flashing-Home-Routers/ba-p/305988 In a recent blog posting (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/hacking-the-interwebs) the GNUCITIZEN security think tank published some new research on the security of home routers – specifically on how to modify router settings from an external location using Adobe Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/Flashing-Home-Routers/ba-p/305988 Zulfikar Ramzan 2008-01-21T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Winds-of-Change-A-New-Storm-is-Brewing/ba-p/305987 Well, the holidays are over and people are now back working. Including the controllers of the Storm botnet. Steven Adair of Shadowserver has confirmed that the recently festive Storm domains have now had their DNS Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Emerging/The-Winds-of-Change-A-New-Storm-is-Brewing/ba-p/305987 Silas Barnes 2008-01-15T08:00:00Z