Billy Hoffman on AJAX security and browser attacks

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.
SWW: Examining McAfee-Secure Computing merger

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

The dust has settled since Dan Kaminsky revealed an intriguing -- and now, perhaps, notorious -- DNS exploit at this year's Black Hat briefings. But...
SWW: Bank CISO on encryption

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

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!
SWW: Cybercriminal underground

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

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

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...
SWW: Researcher pushes data sharing

Security researcher Gadi Evron is revitalizing the Botnets mailing list to get researchers to share more raw data with the security community. Evron says...
Self-Defending Networks in 2008

In this Security Newsmakers Podcast, SearchSecurity.com's Neil Roiter asks Scott Weiss, vice president and general manager...