Kaspersky Lab Senior Antivirus Researcher to Deliver Presentations at INTEROP Las Vegas 2009

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WHAT:                 Kaspersky LabSenior Antivirus Researcher, Roel Schouwenberg will be giving

two presentations during the upcoming Interop Conference in Las Vegas.

Help! Someone Hijacked My Tweets:

The Problem with Implicit Trust and Social Networks

Social networks are under attack. Organizations need to recognize these real threats to understand the risks associated with social networks. In this presentation Roel will provide a view of the state of social network security and how companies can guard against an employee's human instinct to accept the content as true and authentic.

Ready, Set, Attack!

The hackers of the world are constantly refining and enhancing their techniques and capabilities, and are typically ahead of organizations today. It is important to understand their capabilities and trends in their activities in order to effectively mitigate the risks they create and repel their attacks. In this presentation Roel will discuss current attacks being utilized by the hacker community and the tools and countermeasures which can be used to repel them.

WHO:                   Roel Schouwenberg, Senior Antivirus Researcher, Kaspersky Lab Americas

WHEN:                 Help! Someone Hijacked My Tweets - Location: Mandalay J

Tuesday, May 19 2009, 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PT

                                Ready, Set, Attack! - Location: Lagoon L Conference Room 

Wednesday, May 20 2009, 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. PT

WHERE:               INTEROP Las Vegas 2009

Mandalay Bay Convention Center

                                Las Vegas, Nevada

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab seeks to deliver the world's most immediate protection against IT security threats, including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing, and spam.  Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and very fast outbreak response times for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and the mobile computing environment. Kaspersky® technology is used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry's leading IT security solution providers. Learn more at https://mbx.avp.ru/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.kaspersky.com/. For the latest on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends, visit http://www.viruslist.com/.

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