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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
President Obama on Tuesday appointed Howard Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and Bush administration security adviser, to be the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. In this podcast, recorded in May soon after Obama’s announcement that he would appoint a security czar, Dennis Fisher talks with Schmidt about the job, the cybercrime problem and what needs to be done to fix it.
Howard A. Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and former security adviser to President George W. Bush, was named White House Cybersecurity Coordinator on Tuesday.
The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the criminals have taken the next step and begun setting up their own virtual data centers.
The iKee worm that was infecting jailbroken iPhones last month was a simple, yet effective, piece of software that shows how easy it might be for an attacker to create a fairly large, functioning botnet comprising mobile devices, an analysis of the worm shows.
Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine talk with Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director of product security and privacy, about the new zero-day flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Adobe’s security response process and the challenges of getting updates to end users.
Rogue antivirus applications have been a serious threat to users for some time now, but the level of sophistication of these attacks has gone up several levels recently, as attackers have learned to copy exactly the GUI and virtually every feature of authentic AV programs.
In a new twist on a couple of old attack techniques, hackers have begun using cross-site scripting to inject malicious iFrames onto some Web sites, redirecting users to malicious sites designed to install unwanted software.
Attackers are targeting new, unpatched flaws in both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The vulnerabilities exist in the most recent versions of the applications and are under active attack, according to Adobe.
Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher talks with Eugene Spafford of Purdue’s CERIAS center about cybercrime, funding for long-term security research projects and whether the federal cybersecurity coordinator position matters.
Dennis Fisher talks with researcher Marc Maiffret of FireEye about the evolution of modern malware, the discovery of the Code Red worm and how far security research has come in the last 10 years.
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