Vulnerability in OpenSSL CVE-2010-1633

An invalid Return value check in pkeyrsaverifyrecover was discovered. When verification recovery fails for RSA keys an uninitialised buffer with an undefined length is returned instead of an error code. This could lead to an information leak. Found by Peter-Michael Hager...

Former Penn CSO Dishes on His Firing

Former State of Pennsylvania CISO Robert Maley has been watching all the news about his firing for talking about a security incident without permission at last month’s RSA conference. He began a talk on application security at CSO Perspectives 2010 by going off topic and addressing the controvers...

IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter Detection (HTTP)

The remote web server has been fingerprinted as one embedded in IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter RSA cards. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid45356; scriptversion "$Revision: 1.10 $"; scriptnameenglish:"IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter Detection HTTP";...

Former Pennsylvania CSO Maley Speaks

Robert Maley was fired from his job as the chief information security officer for the state of Pennsylvania earlier this month after he spoke, without proper authorization, about security incidents involving the state during a panel discussion at the RSA trade show. In this interview, Maley gives...

Marc Maiffret at RSA 2010

Dennis Fisher talks with Marc Maiffret of FireEye at RSA Conference 2010 about the lack of sophistication in the Aurora attack and the state of malware attacks on the Web...

Why Bob Maley's Firing is Bad for All of Us

The news that Pennsylvania CISO Bob Maley lost his job for publicly discussing a security incident at last week’s RSA Conference really shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it does. Even for a government agency, this kind of lack of understanding of what actually matters is appalling and it is a...

State CSO Fired for Talking Openly at RSA

Pennsylvania’s chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth’s online driving exam scheduling system. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Tom Ptacek at RSA 2010

Ryan Naraine talks with Tom Ptacek of Matasano Security about the current state of the security industry and themes at the RSA Conference...

RSA 2010: Researchers Demo Mobile Botnet from Smartphone App

A pair of researchers has amassed nearly 8,000 iPhones and Android smartphones in an experimental mobile botnet that demonstrates the ease of spreading potentially malicious applications on these devices. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

RSA 2010: Experts Reject Taxing Hacks & Malware

Microsoft’s idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is “horrible,” an analyst said as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company’s security chief. Read the full article. Computerworld...

RSA 2010: BlackEnergy 2 Botnet Revealed

Like the sequel to a successful movie, the botnet behind the distributed denial of service attacks that hit the country of Georgia during its conflict with Russia in 2008 has been updated. This time though, the idea isn’t hacktivism—it’s stealing financial data and, unlike in the case of other...

RSA 2010: How Cloud Security Is the Wild West

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week’s RSA Conference. Read the full article...

Charlie Miller on Safari Bugs, Predictions for PWN2OWN and Mobile Security

Independent Security Evaluators’ Charlie Miller discusses Safari bugs, his predictions for this year’s PWN2OWN and mobile security with Ryan Naraine at RSA 2010...

Researchers Find Flaw in RSA Authentication

University of Michigan scientists have found they could foil RSA authentication by varying the voltage supply to the holder of the “private key,” which would be the consumer’s device in the case of copy protection and the retailer or bank in the case of Internet communication. It is highly unlike...

RSA 2010: Banking Malware Sophistication Dupes Systems

The new class of threat represented by today’s banking malware like ZeuS can defeat much of the technology out there to combat it, admitted RSA bank-security panelists. Read the full article. Tech Target...

RSA 2010: Cryptographers Discuss Wisdom of 'Foolishness'

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, a panel of leading cryptographers reveal some of the lessons they have learned while making seemingly imprudent decisions. By going against the grain, new objectives can be made and boundaries overcome...

RSA 2010: Experts Expect Several Ciphers to Be Cracked Soon

Cryptographers are expecting several of the major cryptographic systems in use today to be broken in the near future. In the Cryptographers Panel session at the RSA Conference Tuesday, Adi Shamir said that he is working with a team of researchers who have put together a paper that describes an...

Security B-Sides On The Conference Map

When security professionals flock to San Francisco for next week’s RSA 2010 security conference, they will have access to a set of presentations and events not found on the official RSA agenda. It’s billed as an anti-conference of sorts; a place where practitioners can go for an alternate,...

Previewing RSA Conference 2010

Dennis and Ryan preview the RSA Conference 2010 with their friend Tim Whitman, the head of the security practice at Schwartz Communications. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security...

RSA 2010: Top 15 Conference Sessions You Shouldn't Miss

The RSA security conference is known for being a vendor-heavy, corporate-speak shindig that lacks quality content. I disagree. I spent some time perusing the conference agenda this year and found 15 must-attend sessions: 1. The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques and What Is Coming Next...