Dennis Fisher talks with Martin Roesch, the author of the Snort IDS and founder of Sourcefire, about the evolution of Snort from a side project to an open-source security powerhouse to the technological basis for a hugely successful company.
Dennis Fisher talks with Martin Roesch, the author of the Snort IDS and founder of Sourcefire, about the evolution of Snort from a side project to an open-source security powerhouse to the technological basis for a hugely successful company.
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In this special edition of the Digital Underground Podcast, Dennis Fisher interviews fellow Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso and also Threatpost reporter Brian Donohue about the Black Hat security conference, which begins this week in Las Vegas. Topics of discussion include Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller hacking automobiles, Jeff Forristal’s briefing on what promises to be a devastating Android vulnerability, why it’s dumb to host Black Hat in Las Vegas in the dead of summer, and more.
Researchers at Cisco spotted a recent malvertising campaign where victims were redirected by ads on the AppNexus network to sites hosting the Angler Exploit Kit and exploits against Silverlight vulnerabilities.
Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the paper he co-authored on the Extended Random extension for Dual EC DRBG and whether it could be considered a backdoor.
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