At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

Virtualization: Threats and Protections For SMBs

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and his guests, Michael Guigli, CEO of CloudConnect and Tim Armstrong, Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab as they discuss Virtualization and the security challenges faced by small businesses. To access your show page for the Threatpost Now! Series, please...

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced !

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced Facebook today announced open registration for its second annual Hacker Cup, an annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world. Programmers will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance...

Mobile Madness

Admit it. It would scarcely break your heart if the legions of slack-jawed smartphone Facebook and FourSquare gawkers were forced to confront their own digital mortality – however briefly – with a few scary exploits made just for them. In 2011, the untethered among us saw several mobile security...

Think Safer

Not even a techno-religion is immune from security snafus, as the folks at Apple are steadily discovering. After years of watching the bad guys use crimeware kits like Zeus against Microsoft, the iGang finally got a malware construction tool to call its own in May of this year. Modeled on the...

As the year draws to a close…

We’ve compiled our list of the Top Security Stories of 2011, presented here in no particular order. These are the issues that shook the world’s markets and kept us awake at night. If there’s a lesson here, it’s that cybersecurity challenges aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact, as we look...

The Changing Threat Landscape

Join Dennis Fisher, Threatpost editor-in-chief, and his guests, Josh Corman, Director Security Intelligence Akamai, and Gene Kim, Founder / Former CTO Tripwire, and Author, “Visible Ops,” as they discuss the changing threat landscape and how technology plays a pivotal role in the security...

OWASP Academy Portal - FREE OWASP TOP 10 security challenges with Hacking-Lab Scripting Vulnerabilities

The OWASP Academy-Portal is proud to announce the first free online OWASP TOP 10 security lab based on Hacking-Lab.com! Hacking-Lab is supporting the OWASP mission and made their online training environment available for OWASP on free-to-use basis! The Hacking-Lab is not just a common "hackme"...

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a...

The Changing Threat Landscape

Join Dennis Fisher, Threatpost editor-in-chief, and his guests, Josh Corman, Director Security Intelligence Akamai, and Gene Kim, Founder / Former CTO Tripwire, and Author, “Visible Ops,” as they discuss the changing threat landscape and how technology plays a pivotal role in the security...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

Gary McGraw on the BSIMM3 Data Release

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the release of the data collected during the BSIMM 3 software security measurement project, the most pressing challenges facing companies involved in software security programs and the reasons that the US government is falling farther behind o...

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011 Ready for a little game of capture the flag? What if you weren't running around a field like a crazy person trying to grab a flag out of someone's belt, but instead were navigating around a network overcoming technical challenges to find marker...

Securing Education Networks: Lessons Learned

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and our panel of experts as they discuss security regulations, concerns and challenges within the Education market. Along with Paul, Steve Mazzola of Belmont Public Schools, David Escalante of Boston College and Josh Corman of the 451 Group provide hands-on...

Rethinking DEFCON

For nearly two decades, the DEFCON hacking conference has brought together people with an interest in investigating technology and cracking security. In recent years, however, DEFCON has suffered significant growing pains. Getting between sessions meant pushing through crowds reminiscent of major...

UNITED Security Summit 2011, 19-20 September - San Francisco

UNITED Security Summit 2011 , 19-20 September - San Francisco The UNITED Security Summit is focused on innovation and collaboration in the security community. Bringing together security decision makers, practitioners, commercial vendors, open source projects and academia, the Summit highlights...

OWASP Hackademic Challenges Project

The OWASP Hackademic Challenges Project is an open source project that helps you test your knowledge on web application security. You can use it to actually attack web applications in a realistic but also controlable and safe environment. On the left menu you can see all attack scenarios that are...

Taiwan Struggles To Combat Attacks From China

Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

BodgeIt Store : Vulnerable Web Application For Penetration Testing !

BodgeIt Store : Vulnerable Web Application For Penetration Testing ! Features Easy to install – just requires java and a servlet engine, e.g. Tomcat Self contained no additional dependencies other than to 2 in the above line Easy to change on the fly – all the functionality is implemented in JSPs...

Mobile Application Security – The New Frontier

The power and popularity of consumer mobile computing is changing faster then you can say iFart the 1 downloaded app worldwide. Commercial entities are rapidly adopting mobile-based applications for retail sales floors, restaurants and dining rooms, distributed mobile banking, and more...