Engin Kirda, Author at Lastline

Learn by Doing: Improving Today’s Security in Education to Train Tomorrow’s Infosec Pros

Posted by Engin Kirda ON Sep 27, 2018

Today, digital threats are more numerous and are evolving at a faster rate than ever before. Organizations can protect themselves with the help of trained information security personnel. But these professionals are increasingly hard to come by. For instance, Cybersecurity Ventures found that there will...

Malware in the Wild: Evolving to Evade Detection

Posted by Engin Kirda and Lastline ON Apr 15, 2015

Advanced malware is behind many headline-grabbing data breaches, and untold others. It has evolved to elude detection by sensing its environment and – if anti-malware technology is detected – performing evasive maneuvers. Once it gains entry, the malware can lay dormant until the attacker chooses...

A Look at Advanced Targeted Attacks Through the Lense of a Human-Rights NGO, World Uyghur Congress

Posted by Engin Kirda and Lastline ON Aug 12, 2014

In my capacity as an academic researcher at Northeastern University, I collaborated with computer scientists Stevens Le Blond, Adina Uritesc and C´edric Gilbert at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as well as Zheng Leong Chua and Prateek Saxena at the National University of Singapore to...

Author: Engin Kirda

Learn by Doing: Improving Today’s Security in Education to Train Tomorrow’s Infosec Pros

Malware in the Wild: Evolving to Evade Detection

A Look at Advanced Targeted Attacks Through the Lense of a Human-Rights NGO, World Uyghur Congress

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