Nate Cardozo, Attorney with EFF Talks Encryption at RSA Conference 2018

Threatpost’s Tom Spring talks to crypto expert Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at RSA Conference 2018 about the U.S. government’s current position on device encryption and law enforcement’s use of iPhone passcode cracker called GreyKey...

Threatpost RSA Conference 2018 Preview

The RSA Conference 2018 kicks off this week in San Francisco, drawing attendees from around the world eager to learn more about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and security products and tools for the coming year. This year’s conference has more than 650 exhibitors and 550 sessions covering...

Investing in the right innovation

RSA is around the corner which means tens of thousands of people will descend on Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Hundreds of innovative young companies will look for customers, props, and capital especially at the Early Stage Expo!. Venture capitalists will look for opportunities to invest a...

Weather Forecast for April — It’s Raining Security Pros

As you are planning out your spring calendar, make sure an April visit to San Francisco is on it. Anchored by RSA Conference 2018, San Francisco will become a center of US security life for a week. The week will start with some training events and, of course, BSides San Francisco. Bsides is a...

Call For Customer Presentations at RSA Conference 2018!

Tell your security story to your peers at RSA Conference 2018 San Francisco! Qualys is looking for customers excited to share their security and DevSecOps successes, best practices and case studies leveraging the use of the Qualys Cloud Platform. Take the stage in the Qualys booth to share your...

Android Overlay and Accessibility Features Leave Millions at Risk

University researchers are warning that two features, not flaws, core to Google’s Android mobile operating system can be used together to launch clickjacking attacks to gain control of a target’s phone. The discovery was made by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, who call the researc...

Business Email Compromise Losses Up 2,370 Percent Since 2015

Business Email Compromise BEC schemes, where executives are scammed via social engineering and phishing compromises that ultimately lead to fraudulent wire transfers, grew at a jaw-dropping rate of 2,370 percent in the last two years. The FBI yesterday published its latest statistics on these...

Harley Geiger on Cybersecurity Policy

Harley Geiger, director of public policy at Rapid7, talks to Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso at RSA Conference 2017 about how policy goes hand in hand with technology when it comes to cybersecurity, the government’s focus on IoT and critical infrastructure, and the role independent security researc...

Jon Oberheide on Perimeter Security

Mike Mimoso talks to Duo Security co-founder and CTO Jon Oberheide at RSA Conference about Google’s BeyondCorp security model, enforcing perimeter security, how endpoint security has evolved through the years, and the future of passwords. Download: JonOberheideonPerimeterSecurity.mp3 Music by Chr...

Cody Pierce on the Future of Exploit Development

Mike Mimoso talks to Cody Pierce, director of vulnerability research and prevention with Endgame, at RSA Conference 2017 about how attackers are changing their techniques in the face of mitigations and continuing to base exploits around legitimate APIs and functions to thwart detection. Download:...

Katie Moussouris on Bug Bounty Programs, Hack the Army, and Wassenaar

Mike Mimoso talks to Luta Security’s Katie Moussouris at RSA Conference 2017 about how bug bounty programs have gone mainstream, the success around Hack the Pentagon and Hack the Army, and where things stand with the Wassenaar Arrangement. Download:...

2017 RSA Conference Highlights

Over five days, 45,000 consumers and thought leaders convened at the 2017 RSA Conference, sharing insights on how to stay ahead of todays - and tomorrows - cyber threats. Coalfire was in the thick of it, and here weve compiled some of the most important takeaways...

Divide Between Work, Personal Data on Android Breached

SAN FRANCISCO–Researchers here at the RSA Conference demonstrated Thursday a way a hacker can bypass enterprise mobility management sandboxing tools known as Android for Work that are designed to segregate work and personal data on Android devices. In a proof-of-concept demonstration, researchers...

Cris Thomas on Cyberwar Rhetoric

Cris Thomas of Tenable Networks, aka Space Rogue of the L0pht, talks to Mike Mimoso during RSA Conference about the rhetoric and hype surrounding cyberwar, as well as a quick trip down memory lane with the L0pht and its famous 1998 testimony before Congress. Download:...

Setting Expectations Between States on Cyberwar

A a panel of security experts at the RSA Conference on Wednesday said there is a lack of agreement on a definition of cyberwarfare and of the tools used to fight them. “Words matter and it’s important to have definitions. But one of the challenges is the pace of innovation gets in front of doctri...

Jamie Butler on Detecting Targeting Attacks

In a conversation from RSA Conference, Mike Mimoso talks to Endgame chief technology officer Jamie Butler about what’s new–if anything–with targeted attacks, the proliferation of ransomware, and what defenders are doing about detecting attacks on their networks. Download: JamieButlerRSA.mp3 Music...

Bruce Schneier on the Integration of Privacy and Security

Threatpost Editor in Chief Mike Mimoso talks to crypto pioneer and security expert Bruce Schneier of Resilient Systems about the early days of the RSA Conference, the integration of privacy and security, and the current FBI-Apple debate over encryption and surveillance...

Monkey race ray! RSA conference badge scanning application broke vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, the BLUE BOX company's security researchers found: RSA 2 0 1 6 The General Assembly on the use of badge scanning APP there is a hard-coded default passwords. This year, RSA 2 0 1 6 The participants will get a unique surprise: the General Assembly, as many manufacturers offer a Samsung...

NSA's Rogers Quiet on Apple-FBI Debate at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO—National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command director Admiral Michael S. Rogers stood before tens of thousands of RSA Conference attendees on Tuesday and asked for help. In what has almost become a speaking slot reserved for the government to use as a recruiting pitch of some sor...

Writing OS X Malware at Black Hat 2015

Patrick Wardle has one word for today’s generation of Mac OS X malware: lame. Sure there are advanced samples out there developed by nation-state sponsored groups or exploit vendors such as Hacking Team, but for the most part, Wardle says, we’re still talking about malware that are standalone...