Security Wire Weekly:

September, 2008

Sep 25 2008   3:53PM GMT

Billy Hoffman on AJAX security and browser attacks



Posted by: SearchSecurity.com Staff
The Nameless Security Podcast

Billy Hoffman of HP is among the top AJAX and JavaScript security experts in the industry. In this podcast he talks about the issues with Google Chrome, why JavaScript is so dangerous and why he dragged a vending machine up several flights of stairs to prove a point in college.

 
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Sep 24 2008   1:52PM GMT

SWW: Examining McAfee-Secure Computing merger



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Security Wire Weekly

Paul Roberts, an analyst at the 451 Group, talks about McAfee’s $465 million deal to buy Secure Computing and the challenges ahead.

 
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Sep 19 2008   8:21AM GMT

Weaponizing Kaminsky’s DNS discovery



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Threat Monitor


The dust has settled since Dan Kaminsky revealed an intriguing — and now, perhaps, notorious — DNS exploit at this year’s Black Hat briefings. But many organizations are still not patching their internal servers. John Strand explains why this negligence is a big mistake.

 
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Sep 17 2008   1:49PM GMT

SWW: Bank CISO on encryption



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Security Wire Weekly

Steven Katz, the former CISO at Citigroup, JP Morgan, and Merrill Lynch, talks about data encryption and the changing role of the CISO. Katz is widely recognized as one of the first CISOs in the security industry.

 
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Sep 11 2008   2:47PM GMT

Joe Grand on hardware hacking, Defcon badges and Prototype This!



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The Nameless Security Podcast

For Joe Grand, hacking isn’t just an adventure, it’s a job. A former member of the L0pht and owner of Grand Idea Studio, Grand talks about his designs for the Defcon badges, his work on hardware security and his new Discovery Channel show, Prototype This!

 
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Sep 10 2008   4:13PM GMT

SWW: Cybercriminal underground



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Security Wire Weekly

Yuval Ben-Itzhak of Web security vendor Finjan on the latest cybercriminal activities and a new survey that shows organizations are taking steps to defend against attacks.

 
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Sep 5 2008   10:34AM GMT

Debian: A niche OS with a not-so-niche security flaw



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Threat Monitor

A recently discovered flaw in the Debian version of Linux meant that any OpenSSL keys generated during the past 20 months could be guessed in a matter of hours. But does the vulnerability suggest broader security issues for Linux? Michael Cobb explores the origin of the flaw and what it means for even the non-Debian users.

 
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Sep 4 2008   5:13PM GMT

Naraine, Roberts on Google Chrome, browser-based exploits and malware



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The Nameless Security Podcast

In this episode of the Nameless Security Podcast, Dennis Fisher sits down with Paul Roberts, a security analyst with The 451 Group, and Ryan Naraine, a blogger and evangelist with Kaspersky Labs, to talk about the launch of Google’s Chrome browser, the rash of browser-based exploits, the changing threat model and what the next president can do to address cybersecurity.

 
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Sep 3 2008   3:30PM GMT

SWW: Researcher pushes data sharing



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Security Wire Weekly

Security researcher Gadi Evron is revitalizing the Botnets mailing list to get researchers to share more raw data with the security community. Evron says information sharing is the key to reducing cybercrime.

 
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Sep 2 2008   10:17AM GMT

Self-Defending Networks in 2008



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Security Newsmakers

Security NewsmakersIn this Security Newsmakers Podcast, SearchSecurity.com’s Neil Roiter asks Scott Weiss, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security Technology Group and former IronPort CEO, about the state of the self-defending network in 2008 and the impact of the acquisition over the past 18 months.

 
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