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Costin G. RaiuChief Security Expert, Kaspersky Lab EEMEA

craiu@kaspersky.ro

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Today’s agenda

• The Threat Landscape: 2009

• The side effects of increased bandwidth

• 2010 – prevention is better than the cure

• simple mitigation steps for safer computing

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Kaspersky Lab: number of signatures

Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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New threats per day: 30,000More than 3,500 new signatures/day

November 2009: +3 mil

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Internet threats – infected legitimate websites

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2006 2007 2008 2009

15,000% growth vs 2006

Infected legitimate websites out of a pool of 300KSource: Kaspersky Lab Analytical article

http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792089

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“En masse” infections

Gumblar, 9-Ball:

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Faster fiber optic connections

Connects a largepart of Africa with:

– India– UK, France– UAE, Egypt

Seacom

Image source: mybroadband.co.za

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Seacom - effects

Cheaper internetaccess for allFaster internetconnectionsOnline commerce

P2P networksfile sharingPirate softwareInternet attacks

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Image source: Seacom HQ c/o Linda Carter

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2010 – social engineering attacks

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2010 – social engineering attacks

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Mitigation steps

• Install and run an Internet Security Suite• Don’t assume a website is safe because it is high

profile• Use an up-to-date, modern browser: IE8, FF 3.x,

Chrome, Opera 10• Keep Windows up-to-date• Always run the latest versions of Adobe Reader,

Flash Player, MS Word, etc…• Be wary of messages from social networks

Prevention is better than cure!

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The future is coming – be prepared!