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Botnets Are Everywhere – See How They Spread in the Trend Micro Global Botnet Map
- — Jan. 15, 2013, 2:53 a.m.
Cybercriminals today create and use botnets to perpetrate their criminal activities. Whether it is to send out Blackhole Exploit Kit spam or to use as entry points into organizations, the one constant is that most bots (victim computers) communicate back and forth with command and control (C&C) servers. Trend Micro’s Global Threat Intelligence, derived from [...]
Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog - by Trend Micro
Botnets Are Everywhere – See How They Spread in the Trend Micro Global Botnet Map
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
