Dennis Fisher On Security, Journalism, and the Origins of Threatpost

Ryan Naraine hijacks the podcast to talk with Dennis Fisher about the origins of Threatpost, his time as a security reporter, the changes in the industry, and what’s next on the horizon.​ Download: lastdigitalundergroundever.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Week in News: Chinese Sanctions, Doing Away with RC4, and Mobile Pwn2Own

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week. Download: digitalunderground218.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Rifle Hack, Stagefright, OwnStar, and Black Hat 2015

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the hacked sniper rifle, the huge Android bug in Stagefright, Samy Kamkar’s OwnStar device, and the joy and pain of next week’s Black Hat conference. Download: digitalunderground215.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle Patches, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about all of the patches from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle, the Flash security saga and the Darkode forum takedown. Download: digitalunderground213.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Hacking Team Hack and the OPM Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Hacking Team hack and the continued fallout from the OPM breach. Download: digitalunderground212.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Latest Apple Patches, Mudge and the Cyber UL, and the OPM Hack

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the OS X and iOS patches, the potential for the new cyber UL project run by Mudge, and the lawsuit against OPM after its data breach. Download: digitalunderground210.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on Duqu 2.0, HSTS in Windows, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Duqu 2.0 attack and its ramifications, the addition of HSTS support to Windows 7 and 8.1 and the rest of the news of the week. Download: digitalunderground207.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Brian Donohue on Security and Journalism

Dennis Fisher talks with Brian Donohue about his time at Threatpost, learning about security and the joy and pain of being a journalist. Download: digitalunderground205.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

How I Got Here: Marcus Ranum

​Dennis Fisher talks with security pioneer Marcus Ranum about writing an early Internet firewall at DEC, the security gold-rush era of the 1990s and early 2000s, why he never patented most of the ideas he has come up with and how he found peace of mind. Download: 17ranum.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsal...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the MySQL bug, OpenSSL and the House Crypto Hearing

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the post-RSA news, including the MySQL bug, the progress of the OpenSSL overhaul and the wildly entertaining House hearing on crypto backdoors. Download: digitalunderground200.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Android App-Replacement Vulnerability, Windows Privilege Escalation and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the week, including the Android app-replacement vulnerability, the Windows privilege escalation bug and the Yahoo transparency report and the company’s crypto efforts. Download: digitalunderground192.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the FREAK SSL Vulnerability and CSI: Cyber

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the FREAK SSL vulnerability and the glorious debut of CSI: Cyber! Download: digitalunderground190.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Week in News: Superfish, Gemalto and NSA

Mike Mimoso and Dennis Fisher discuss the news of the last week, including the Superfish fiasco, the Gemalto SIM hack controversy and the continuing NSA drama. Download: digitalunderground187.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Patch Tuesday, Facebook's ThreatExchange and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss Patch Tuesday, the Facebook ThreatExchange platform, Mozilla’s extension signing plan, plus questions from readers! Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground185.mp3...

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...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Encryption, the Microsoft-Google Feud and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the security news of the past week, including the proposed changes to the CFAA, David Cameron’s encryption comments, the NSA’s quasi-apology regarding Dual EC and the Microsoft-Google disclosure feud. Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground180.m...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Windows Schannel Vulnerability and Wirelurker

Mike Mimoso and Dennis Fisher talk about the Windows Schannel vulnerability and whether it’s ripe for mass exploitation, as well as the WireLurker attack and why Apple hasn’t addressed it. Download: digitalunderground171.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Apple iCloud Mess, Potential Home Depot Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Apple iCloud mess, why the company waited until now to extend its 2FA system to the cloud, and the fallout from the possible Home Depot data breach. Download: digitalunderground165.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Wrap Up Black Hat and DEF CON 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso look back on the news from the last week in Las Vegas at Black Hat and DEF CON, including the Blackphone rooting, the Computrace research and the more upbeat mood at the conferences this year. Download: digitalunderground162.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Image via Bla...