Gamma ray scanners? Night vision cameras? bomb-proof manhole covers? G-Men? It must be Super Bowl time again, and Marion County, Indiana says that they’ve gone where no other municipality has gone before: a permanent, $18 million regional operation center (yes – ROC) that will manage security at the Big Game.
The security of Android devices has come under quite a lot of scrutiny in recent months, with researchers identifying various root exploits and permission leaks that could be exploited. In this video, researcher Thomas Cannon of ViaForensics demonstrates a method for setting up a remote shell on an Android device without using any exploits or vulnerabilities.
Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him.
Michael Kaplan presents his proposal for authenticating every MTA on the web and identifying every spam message.
Google announced its long-awaited mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, in New York City on Thursday. The company claims it will revolutionize commerce. But with stories about massive data breaches and hacks an almost daily occurrence, consumers are most concerned about whether Google Wallet is secure. Here’s what you need to know.
In this video, the folks at Offensive Security demonstrated exactly how the Windows DLL-hijacking vulnerability can exploited using Metasploit and a benign PowerPoint slide.
In this video, Aza Raskin of Mozilla demonstrates a new class of phishing attack in which the attacker is able to use malicious code in one browser tab to completely change the content in another tab on a victim’s browser.
In this video, Lenny Zeltser, a SANS instructor, outlines the basic concepts of reverse engineering malware, describing the process of analyzing the code and the behavior of the malware.
Independent Security Evaluators’ Charlie Miller discusses Safari bugs, his predictions for this year’s PWN2OWN and mobile security with Ryan Naraine at RSA 2010.
This video demonstrates a proof-of-concept BlackBerry spyware package developed by Tyler Shields, one of Veracode’s senior security researchers.
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