Presentation for the opening of Kaspersky's Office in South Africa.

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Securing Africa
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- get prepared for the future to come -
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Costin G. Raiu
Chief Security Expert, Kaspersky Lab EEMEA
craiu@kaspersky.ro

2. Today’s agenda
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• The Threat Landscape: 2009
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effects of increased bandwidth
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• 2010 – prevention is better than the cure
• simple mitigation steps for safer
computing

3. Kaspersky Lab: number of signatures
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1600000
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1400000
New threats per day: 30,000
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1200000
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More than 3,500 new signatures/day
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November 2009: +3 mil
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Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

4. Internet threats – infected legitimate websites
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2,000
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15,000%
1,600
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1,400
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Infected legitimate websites out of a pool of 300K
Source: Kaspersky Lab Analytical article
http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792089

5. “En masse” infections
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Gumblar, 9-Ball:
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Seacom
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ConnectsThird level
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a large
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– with:
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– UK, France
– UAE, Egypt
Image source: mybroadband.co.za

7. Seacom -
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Cheaper internet
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– file sharing
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Pirate software
connections Internet attacks
Online commerce
Image source: Seacom HQ c/o Linda Carter

8. Click to social engineering attacks
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10. Mitigation steps
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• Install and levelan Internet Security Suite
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run
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• 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

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The future is coming – be prepared!
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Thank you!