AVAR Hong Kong security conference 2011 – in 30 seconds
Well, okay, if you happen to be an extremely fast reader. The Association of Anti Virus Asia Researcher’s (AVAR) 14th AVAR Conference just wrapped up in Hong Kong on Friday. This year, the focus was on security issues in and around the emerging Asian security market, and how to rise to the challenge. As one speaker related, there is a very small percentage of internet users who have been educated and act securely online. As emerging markets surge into the online fray, the pace of new users far outstrip the pace of educated/secure users on the Internet as a whole, so the challenges are huge.
The conference (principally sponsored by ESET & Microsoft) started out with a keynote from Roy Ko, with ASCERT, with points about getting the latest notifications out to the community in a timely manner. Other talks centered around mobile malware, reverse engineering various new malware hitting the streets, including EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) “bootkit” malware and others targeting various platforms, such as Mac. Google image poisoning also got dissected, as BHSEO makes its way into Google image search results, a disturbing trend. Malware obfuscation techniques were discussed, along with reverse engineering exploit kits. Industry cross-collaboration & multi-scanning was highlighted from the folks at OPSWAT, following an announcement that ESET will also collaborate with them.
The overarching tone of the event was really centered around educating the next generation of Internet users to stay safe online (including my presentation on future education systems with embedded intelligence). As mobile platforms hit the streets en masse, with new and more powerful processors, users and organizations will continually have to grapple with security in new ways. This conference highlighted some of the current and future threats in ways that gave all the major players in the field some substantive food-for-thought for how we will all meet the challenge. If you were there, you enjoyed it. If not, there’s always next year, see you then!
AVAR Hong Kong security conference 2011 – in 30 seconds
Well, okay, if you happen to be an extremely fast reader. The Association of Anti Virus Asia Researcher’s (AVAR) 14th AVAR Conference just wrapped up in Hong Kong on Friday. This year, the focus was on security issues in and around the emerging Asian security market, and how to rise to the challenge. As one speaker related, there is a very small percentage of internet users who have been educated and act securely online. As emerging markets surge into the online fray, the pace of new users far outstrip the pace of educated/secure users on the Internet as a whole, so the challenges are huge.
The conference (principally sponsored by ESET & Microsoft) started out with a keynote from Roy Ko, with ASCERT, with points about getting the latest notifications out to the community in a timely manner. Other talks centered around mobile malware, reverse engineering various new malware hitting the streets, including EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) “bootkit” malware and others targeting various platforms, such as Mac. Google image poisoning also got dissected, as BHSEO makes its way into Google image search results, a disturbing trend. Malware obfuscation techniques were discussed, along with reverse engineering exploit kits. Industry cross-collaboration & multi-scanning was highlighted from the folks at OPSWAT, following an announcement that ESET will also collaborate with them.
The overarching tone of the event was really centered around educating the next generation of Internet users to stay safe online (including my presentation on future education systems with embedded intelligence). As mobile platforms hit the streets en masse, with new and more powerful processors, users and organizations will continually have to grapple with security in new ways. This conference highlighted some of the current and future threats in ways that gave all the major players in the field some substantive food-for-thought for how we will all meet the challenge. If you were there, you enjoyed it. If not, there’s always next year, see you then!
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AVAR Hong Kong security conference 2011 – in 30 seconds