PODCAST: News from RSA 2015

Dennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news of the week from the RSA Conference. Download: digitalunderground198.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Flickr photo via @jf10...

DHS Secretary on Recruiting Trip at RSA Conference

SAN FRANCISCO – Homeland Security secretary Jeh C. Johnson was apparently on a recruiting trip today at RSA Conference. During his 30-minute keynote, amid dozens of “cyber” references, the 57-year-old Johnson put out the help-wanted sign for able-bodied security professionals who a may want to jo...

Jeremiah Grossman on Adapting to a Changing Market

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security about his RSA Conference talk on the coming change in the security industry regarding guarantees, security insurance and how it will all affect customers. Download: digitalunderground197.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Previewing RSA 2015 with Brian Donohue

Dennis Fisher talks with Brian Donohue in advance of Brian’s first visit to the RSA Conference this week. They discuss what to expect in terms of the content, the chaos and the suit-to-civilian ratio at the show. Download: digitalunderground196.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Microsoft Releases Free Threat Modeling Tool 2014

Threat modeling has been part of the security culture at Microsoft for the better part of a decade, an important piece of the Security Development Lifecycle that’s at the core of Trustworthy Computing. Today, Microsoft updated its free Threat Modeling Tool with a number of enhancements that bring...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Day Two at the RSA Conference

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso run down the news from day two of the RSA Conference, including the new FBI director’s speech and preview Trusty Con. Download: digitalunderground147.mp3...

RSA Conference Mobile App Vulnerable

The official mobile application for the ongoing RSA Conference contains a half-dozen security vulnerabilities, according to an analysis performed by researchers from the security service provider IOActive. IOActive chief technical officer Gunter Ollmann claims the most severe of the vulnerabiliti...

FBI Director James B. Comey RSA Conference Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller predicted to his successor James B. Comey that cybersecurity would dominate his 10-year tenure much the same way terrorism did Mueller’s. “After five months, he’s right,” Comey said today during his keynote address at RSA Conference 2014. Comey...

Avaya to Patch one-X IP phone zero-day vulnerability

SAN FRANCISCO — Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Avaya’s latest one-X 9608 IP telephones have been discovered and are expected to be patched on Friday by the provider. Researcher Ang Cui, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and chief scientist at Red Balloon Security, will demonstrate an...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Day One at the RSA Conference 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the happenings on day one of the RSA Conference, including Art Coviello’s keynote and what makes the NSA mad. Download: digitalunderground146.mp3...

The NSA is 'Not Made of Magic'

SAN FRANCISCO–Of the small pool of people who have seen the Snowden documents, few, if any, are as technically savvy and knowledgeable about security and surveillance as Bruce Schneier. And after reading through stacks and stacks of them, Schneier says that yes, the NSA is extremely capable and...

Announcing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.0 Technical Preview

I’m here at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, attending the annual RSA Conference USA 2014. There’s a great crowd here and many valuable discussions. Our Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC engineering teams have been working hard on the next version of EMET, which helps customer...

Complete Microsoft EMET Bypass Developed

SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers at Bromium Labs are expected to announce today they have developed an exploit that bypasses all of the mitigations in Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. Principal security researcher Jared DeMott is scheduled to deliver a presentation this morning...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Preview RSA 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso preview next week’s RSA conference, discuss the sessions they’re looking forward to covering and what the fallout from the NSA controversy will be during the week...

Mobile Malware Captures Keystrokes and Screengrabs

New proof-of-concept mobile malware logs keystrokes and captures screen-grabs on jailbroken iOS and Android devices in order to steal online log-in credentials and other sensitive information from targeted devices. In an interview with Threatpost, Trustwave senior security consultant Neal Hindoch...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Target Data Breach and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the weird in the security industry since the holidays, including the latest revelations about the Target data breach and the decision by some speakers to boycott the RSA Conference because of the NSA revelations. Target image via imprint777‘s Flic...

List of Canceled RSA Talks Continues to Grow

A relatively small but influential list of speakers for the upcoming RSA Conference have decided to withdraw from the show in the wake of stories implicating RSA as a co-conspirator in the NSA’s surveillance efforts. The group is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of speakers scheduled to talk next...

Kelihos P2P Botnet Leveraging Composite Blocking Lists

Kelihos, the peer-to-peer botnet with nine lives, keeps popping up with new capabilities that enable it to sustain itself and make money for its keepers by pushing spam, harvesting credentials and even stealing Bitcoins. According to a number of sources, Kelihos is now leveraging legitimate and...

Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge

The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...

Costin Raiu on the Intricacies of the miniDuke Malware Campaign

With Dennis Fisher out of pocket at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Ryan Naraine hijacks the Digital Underground podcast and gets on the phone with Kaspersky Lab research guru Costin Raiu to talk about the intricacies of the miniDuke malware campaign. Download: digitalunderground113 Subscrib...