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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
A Swiss iPhone developer has released a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email account information, all using just the public API.
Months after it first appeared on the scene, the Gumblar malware continues to infect thousands of servers across the Internet and is closing in on nearly 80,000 servers pointing to the hosts that are serving the malware.
Dennis Fisher talks with security researcher Robert “Rsnake” Hansen about his recent work on DNS rebinding attacks, the poor state of browser security and his new book “Detecting Malice.”
The three universities involved in the security consortium put together this week by Northrop Grumman will have wide latitude to pursue research projects as they see fit and will be under no obligation to work only on technology that fits Northrop’s future plans. The researchers, in fact, will be able to work on the kind of long-range projects that often go unfunded because they don’t show short-term commercial promise.
The United States may be falling perilously behind on science and engineering education, but that’s nothing compared to how poorly we’re doing on social engineering education.
The mysterious black screen of death problem that some Windows users have been experiencing in the last few days turns out not to be related to the latest round of Microsoft patches after all.
Dennis Fisher talks with Ed Bellis, CISO of Orbitz Worldwide, about the security challenges facing a Web-based business, the value of software security initiatives and the joys of compliance in today’s regulatory environment.
Dennis Fisher talks with Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks about the Mafiaboy attacks, the history of DDoS attacks and the botnet epidemic.
The botnet problem has grown to epidemic proportions, and in this video Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher talks about the roots of the problem and how it evolved into one of the larger threats on the Web.
Security researcher Robert “Rsnake” Hansen discusses the concept of DNS rebinding attacks and the threat they pose.
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