About
Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
The security industry has undergone massive changes in the last 15 years, and in some cases it’s hard to imagine what things would be like had these events not taken place. Think of a world in which Google focuses on security and privacy and Microsoft never started Trustworthy Computing, and you get the idea.
Howard Schmidt has been involved in just about every aspect of the security industry during his career. After stints in the Air Force and at Microsoft, he served as a cybersecurity adviser to George W. Bush. Now, after heading back to the private sector for several years, he’s been appointed to serve as President Obama’s security adviser.
A Russian security researcher on Thursday said he has released attack
code that exploits a critical vulnerability in the latest version of
Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Read the full article [The Register].
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that the blue screen of death issues that affected a slew of users after the latest batch of Patch Tuesday updates is the result of an existing infection by the Alureon rootkit.
In the wake of the attacks against Google, Adobe and other major high-tech companies, there was a lot of public shock and outrage that this kind of attack happened. But it was really just a small part of what’s been going on for years. In a conversation with Dennis Fisher, Tom Kellermann of Core Security explains why the U.S. government and private companies are so unprepared for these attacks.
Last year was an interesting year in the security industry in a number of ways, but perhaps none more so than the monstrous increase in the volume of malicious spam. In the second half of 2009, the number of spam messages sent per day skyrocketed from 600 million to three billion, according to new research.
A group of researchers has found a significant flaw in the chip-and-PIN security system used by credit card companies in the UK. The weakness allows an attacker to use a card without the PIN associated with it.
Dennis Fisher talks with Tyler Shields of Veracode about his BlackBerry spyware application, txsBBSPY, the coming wave of smartphone attacks and his lack of surprise about the Google Aurora attack.
A security researcher demonstrated a spyware program at the ShmooCon conference on Sunday that is capable of intercepting and recording text messages, emails, Web traffic and other data sent to and from BlackBerry devices.
This video demonstrates a proof-of-concept BlackBerry spyware package developed by Tyler Shields, one of Veracode’s senior security researchers.
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