I finished up my trip to Brazil this week by spending a few days in Sao Paulo. I did some speaking events with Bruno Domingues from Intel, pictured below. Together with about 14 CIOs from some of Brazil’s largest companies, we participated in a televised roundtable hosted through Security Leaders Decision Report Risk Report. This was Read more…
Tags: Brazil, Security Connected
I spent some time this week in Porto Alegre; it’s about a 90-minute flight from Sao Paulo. It is the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in an area that is generally called “The South” by Brazilians. I had the pleasure of meeting with several organizations across retail, Read more…
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With the world’s 6th largest economy and 5th largest population, Brazil’s economic acceleration and technical growth are second only to China when it comes to emerging economies. Not unsurprisingly, this rapid acceleration of economic power and supporting technology has made Brazil a prime target for cyber attacks for well over a decade. As one of Read more…
Tags: Brazil, cloud, Emerging Markets, epo, SaaS, Virtualization
One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time Read more…
Tags: Brazil, DDoS, distributed denial of service, DoS, LOIC, SlowLoris
Did you know that 80% of the world’s spam comes from “zombie” computers? A zombie isn’t the living dead you’ll see looking for fresh brains; it is a computer that has been taken over by cybercriminals and can be controlled from afar, unbeknownst to the user sitting in front of the screen. The armies of Read more…
Tags: Belarus, botnets, Brazil, Cybercrime, cybercriminal, India, Indonesia, malware, Russia, spam, zombie computers, zombies
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