About
Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Gumblar, the nasty bit of malware that was part of a mass SQL injection on legitimate Web sites this spring, is continuing to spread and its creators have been busy lately, compromising hundreds of new sites, leading to a massive new wave of infections of end-user PCs.
Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego. The report described how attackers could search for, locate and attack specific targets in Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) because of certain underlying vulnerabilities in the infrastructure. Read the full story [Computerworld].
The National Security Agency is going to run a planned $1.5 billion data center in Utah that will serve as a support center for the government’s information security programs.
Richard Clarke, a former top adviser on information security and terrorism in the Bush White House, is calling for Barack Obama to initiate an open public dialogue on the use of offensive and defensive information warfare capabilities and what the consequences of a cyberwar could be for the country.
This video shows just how easy it is to crack the venerable WEP wireless encryption protocol.
A new report by a Washington policy think tank dismisses out of hand the idea that terrorist groups are currently launching cyber attacks and says that the recent attacks against U.S. and South Korean networks were not damaging enough to be considered serious incidents.
This Google TechTalk features Aleecia McDonald of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how we arrived at the current state of online privacy and how self-regulation works in practice.
There’s a rudimentary vulnerability in a cable modem/wireless router installed in tens of thousands of homes by Time Warner that could enable an attacker to get full access to the router quite easily.
It’s been five months since President Obama announced his plan to appoint a cybersecurity coordinator, and his failure to fill the position has created something worse than anger: apathy.
Dennis Fisher talks with Dave Dittrich of the University of Washington, one of the top botnet and malware researchers in the industry, about the evolution of botnets and malware, the innovations of the Nugache botnet and the monetization of large-scale botnets.
Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics. Content strives to be of the highest quality, objective and non-commercial.
Sponsored Content is paid for by an advertiser. Sponsored content is written and edited by members of our sponsor community. This content creates an opportunity for a sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to the Threatpost audience. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.
