In the triumphant return of the Digital Underground podcast, Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Howard (@digiphile) of O’Reilly Media about the open government and open data movements, how they’re affecting security and the ways in which Internet freedom and privacy play into the current climate online.
Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the current climate of FUD and rhetoric surrounding cyber war and cyber espionage, the state of software security in the government and military and the potential need for a software Cash for Clunkers program.
Dennis Fisher talks with Anup Ghosh, founder and chief scientist of Invincea, about the rise of browser and PDF exploits, the company’s new virtualized PDF security product and whether the Reader X sandbox will make a difference in preventing widespread PDF attacks.
Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of Verizon Business about the company’s release of the VERIS Community Application and the need for better data in the security community on attacks and incidents.
Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts discuss the controversy over the HTC G2 code modification, America’s supremacy in the rankings of bot-infested countries and the viability of the new Exploit Hub as a business.
Dennis Fisher talks with author Adam Shostack about the merits of the user-centric privacy model, why users don’t pay more attention to privacy and data collection and the need for smarter privacy regulations.
Threatpost editors Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts talk about the revelation that Stuxnet included four previously unknown flaws, the padding oracle attack on ASP.NET Web apps and the return of unofficial patches for zero
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Dennis Fisher talks with HD Moore about the newly discovered DLL load vulnerability in Windows, which affects several dozen applications and can be used by attackers to silently compromise remote machines, as well as the guidance and workarounds that Microsoft is offering for users and developers
In the long-awaited return of the News Wrap podcast, Threatpost’s newest editor, Paul Roberts, makes his debut as he and Dennis Fisher discuss the Network Solutions parked domains hack, the troubling attacks emerging on smartphone platforms and the odd story of a Trojan-infected PC being linked to a 2008 airplane crash.
Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of the Verizon Business RISK team about the new Data Breach Investigations Report, the involvement of the Secret Service in this year’s report and the need for more and better data on attacks and successful defenses.
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