Patch Tuesday provides Windows IT shops with a cadence to their patch management efforts, but evolving threats and internal changes at Microsoft raise questions about its long-term viability.
Dennis Fisher talks with Marc Maiffret about his teenage years as a phone phreaker and BBS denizen, the early years of the vulnerability research scene, the Code Red worm and its aftermath and how the security scene has changed in the past 15 years.
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when everyone starts looking for ways to do something with all of the data that they’ve accumulated during the last 12 months. That means reports and top tens and lists and rankings and controversy. And, inevitably, it also means more examples of why using bug counts as a measure of an application’s security isn’t of much use.
Dennis Fisher talks with Marc Maiffret of FireEye at RSA Conference 2010 about the lack of sophistication in the Aurora attack and the state of malware attacks on the Web.
Dennis Fisher talks with researcher Marc Maiffret of FireEye about the evolution of modern malware, the discovery of the Code Red worm and how far security research has come in the last 10 years.
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