Kris McConkey on OpSec Failures

At last week’s Security Analyst Summit Kris McConkey, part of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ UK Cyber Threat Operations team, discusses hacker OpSec failures: How attackers are still humans and sometimes make mistakes like using personal email addresses and real names in their campaigns...

Katie Moussouris on Starting a Bug Bounty Program

At last week’s Security Analyst Summit, HackerOne’s Katie Moussouris explains one of the key things that companies that want to start a bounty or vulnerability incentive program should know: There is no one size fits all...

Trey Ford on Mapping the Internet with Project Sonar

Trey Ford from Project Sonar describes the group’s initiative at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit. The Rapid7 service scans public networks for applications, software, and hardware, then analyzes that cache of information to learn trends and gain insight on common vulnerabilities. Trey Ford...

Christofer Hoff on Mixed Martial Arts, Active Defense, and Security

CANCUN–In his keynote talk at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit Monday Christofer Hoff, the vice president and CTO of the security business at Juniper Networks stressed that in security and martial arts alike, it’s hard to be a skilled defender if you don’t understand how your adversaries pul...

Massive, Decades-Long Cyberespionage Framework Uncovered

CANCUN–Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a cyberespionage group that has been operating for at least 15 years and has worked with and supported the attackers behind Stuxnet, Flame and other highly sophisticated operations. The attackers, known as the Equation Group, used two of the zero...

Ryan Naraine on SAS 2015

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine, the long lost co-founder of Threatpost, about the upcoming Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Cancun and how much the conference has grown in the last few years. Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground184.mp3...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Apple and Adobe Zero Days, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about all of the zero days that were dropped this week on Adobe and Apple, the Oracle backdoor drama and the upcoming Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Cancun. Then, Dennis calls Brian Donohue to talk about the wonders of the Blackhat movie and Brian’s dog...

Xiaomi Data Breach — "Exposing Xiaomi" Talk Pulled from Hacking Conference

China’s number one — and the world’s 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, which is trying to make inroads into India’s booming mobile phone market, was found secretly sending users’ personal data, including IMEI numbers, phone numbers and text messages to the web servers back to Beijing...

White House: Internet Not Borderless, but Lacking Interior

WASHINGTON D.C. – In an afternoon keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit yesterday, Michael Daniel, a special assistant to the president and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, refuted the common sentiment that the Internet is difficult to defend because it is borderless. To th...

Summit Computer Networks Lil' HTTP Server 2.1/2.2 pbcgi.cgi Cross Site Scripting

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5211/info Lil' HTTP server is a web server application for Windows environments and is maintained by Summit Computer Networks. It is possible for attackers to construct a URL to the 'pbcgi.cgi' script which includes...

Bugging the Bug Market

PUNTA CANA–The Microsoft bug bounty program, started last year as a way to encourage researchers to develop new offensive and defensive techniques, has been a success so far and the company is looking for new ways to expand it in the future. Katie Moussouris, the security strategist at Microsoft...

Adobe issues Emergency Flash Player update to patch critical zero-day threat

Adobe is recommending that users update their Flash Players immediately. The company has published an emergency security bulletin today, that addresses vulnerabilities the Flash Player and released a patch to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionag...

China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal dat...

First ever Malware for Firefox Mobile OS developed by Researcher

Firefox OS is a mobile operating system based on Linux and Mozilla’s Gecko technology, whose environment is dedicated to apps created with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After almost two years of development, a few months back Mozilla officially launched their Firefox OS devices in stores and no...

APT Groups Using G20 Summit as Lure in Targeted Attacks

As political and financial leaders from around the world gear up for the upcoming G20 Summit, attackers have been making their plans, as well. A spate of known cyberespionage groups have been using the summit as a lure for new waves of attacks, and security researchers say one of the groups is...

Ryan Naraine on the Security Analyst Summit 2013

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine, the founding editor of Threatpost, about the Security Analyst Summit in San Juan, the reason why so many talks at security conferences sound the same and why surprise talks are so valuable. Download: digitalunderground111 Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

SCADA, ICS Bug Brokering Mirrors IT Vulnerability Market

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The world of SCADA and industrial control system vulnerabilities is starting to mirror that of IT security, not only in the demonstration and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, but in the brokering of flaws and exploits between hackers and organizations interested i...

Celebratory Shots Following the SCADA and ICS Security Session

A long tradition at the Security Analyst Summit: the post-session refreshment...

Eugene Kaspersky Addresses the Audience

Eugene Kaspersky urged the audience at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit to think seriously about the state of security and the implications of the cyberwar operations that have been uncovered recently...