Security BSides Athens 2018 is a community-driven framework for building events by and for information security community members where professionals, experts, researchers, and InfoSec enthusiasts come together to discuss the next "big thing". Nikolaos Chrysaidos will talk on using the APKLAB.IO Mobile Threat Intel platform to fight banking threats.
Nikolaos is head of mobile threat intelligence and security at Avast, leading mobile security projects, mobile threat intelligence, and threat prevention. He loves mobile forensics, malware analysis, and reverse engineering.
It is evident that Ukrainian companies have not been spared when it comes to phishing attacks, and attackers are targeting local communication infrastructures, network providers, and other services.
A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack known as an amplification attack can increase damage by four billion times and stretch out the length of the attack to 14 hours.
In support of the Ukrainian people, Avast suspends operations in Russia.
As we move towards a more privacy-minded world, we must prepare for major platforms to resist the movement. And we must be prepared for the security, privacy, and business model challenges along the way.
A new report documents a wide variety of crypto crime techniques, combining old and new ways to manipulate markets.
While hacktivists likely believe that they are doing the right thing by contributing their skills to the side they support, at the very least they are committing crimes with these actions.
What can women who want to get into tech do to break into the field? Here are seven tips from two women who have been there.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a number of hacktivist communities that have begun to develop tools to help their cause. Ensuring your security while using such tools is difficult to achieve, and by participating in these actions, you risk your privacy.
