Brian Donohue on the NSA Panel Report
Dennis Fisher talks with Brian Donohue, Threatpost’s Washington, D.C. writer, about the new report from the NSA reform panel and whether any of the recommended changes will ever be implemented.
Podcasts
Threatpost News Wrap, December 19, 2013
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the happenings in the security world of late, including the latest NSA revelations, the odd DGA Changer malware and the response of attackers to the death of Blackhole.
Ron Deibert on Cyber Espionage, Surveillance and Black Code
Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the major security stories of the last two weeks, including the BGP route hijacking, why Do Not Track doesn’t work and the We Are the Cavalry movement.
Dennis Fisher talks with several members of the We Are the Cavalry project, including Josh Corman, Robert Hansen, Space Rogue and John Dickson, about the movement’s origins, its goals to promote research on topics such as medical device security and how to help change the perception of security research.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the major stories from the last couple of weeks, including the changes to the Microsoft bug bounty program, the new Internet bug bounty, the Apple transparency report and a new paper on a weakness in Bitcoin.
Dennis Fisher talks with researcher Dragos Ruiu about his years-long struggle with a group of attackers who have infiltrated his network and are using malware that seems to resist all removal attempts and may have the ability to communicate using sound.
Dennis Fisher talks with Katie Moussouris of Microsoft about her childhood exploits with Commodore 64 programming, ignoring her Barbies, growing up as a hacker, her days as a pen tester and the challenges of working on security at Microsoft.
Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the progress of the BSIMM software security measurement model and how development organizations are addressing the challenges of securing their software.
Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security about the company’s new Aviator browser, which employees have used for years, but the company just released as a public project.
