Mike Mimoso on the Evolution of Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Mike Mimoso, the new editor of Threatpost, about his decade covering security, how the industry and threat landscape have changed and how security researchers are like Bill Parcells. Download: digitalunderground104 Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digit...

Google Sweetens Bug Bounty Pot

Google officials say that they will be handing out bonuses on top of existing rewards to security researchers who report especially troublesome flaws as part of their bug bounty program. Formally known as the Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Program, Google wrote on the Chromium Blog that a number ...

Slideshow: Bad Apples: Mac Malware through the Years

VIEW SLIDESHOW Mac Malware through the Years With the recent glut of high profile Mac-based malware like MacDefender and Flashback, it’s easy to forget that Macintosh computers and Mac malware have been kicking around for more than thirty years – longer, even, than Windows malware. In fact, the...

New Android Malware Variant Can Remotely Root Phone

A new version of Android malware has been tweaked so it doesn’t require user interaction for an attacker to own the device, according to research published by Lookout Mobile Security yesterday. An updated variant of the Legacy Native LeNa malware utilizes the GingerBreak exploit to gain root...

Ryan Naraine on the Koobface Expose and SCADA 0-Day Disclosures

Dennis Fisher talks with long-lost Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine about the intricacies of the disclosure of the identities of the alleged Koobface gang members, whether we’ll see more of that kind of action and whether the recent trend toward disclosing 0-days in SCADA systems will continue...

Virtualization: Threats and Protections For SMBs

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and his guests, Michael Guigli, CEO of CloudConnect and Tim Armstrong, Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab as they discuss Virtualization and the security challenges faced by small businesses. To access your show page for the Threatpost Now! Series, please...

The Appropriately Hyped Stories of 2011

It’s that most un-wonderful time of the year: the time when everyone writes fluffy articles full of lists, retrospectives and look-aheads. Even we did it. Many of these lists involve some variation on the theme of most overhyped or least organic or or most awesomest or lowest fat content. This...

Slideshow: Five Security Predictions for 2012

VIEW SLIDESHOW Five Security Predictions for 2012 What will 2012 bring? We can’t know for sure. Recent years have taught us that, when it comes to computer security, one should expect to be surprised. However, it’s equally true that in the realm of computer security, “what’s past is prologue,” as...

Slideshow: Threatpost Top Security News Stories of 2011

VIEW SLIDESHOW Threatpost Top Security News Stories of 2011 We’ve compiled our list of the Top Security Stories of 2011, presented here in no particular order. These are the issues that shook the world’s markets and kept us awake at night. If there’s a lesson here, it’s that cybersecurity...

The Changing Threat Landscape

Join Dennis Fisher, Threatpost editor-in-chief, and his guests, Josh Corman, Director Security Intelligence Akamai, and Gene Kim, Founder / Former CTO Tripwire, and Author, “Visible Ops,” as they discuss the changing threat landscape and how technology plays a pivotal role in the security...

Google's new social network is growing fast. Before you plunge in, here are a few tips on protecting your privacy.

Google’s new social network is growing fast, with more than 10 million users in its first week of operation. That’s not too bad for an invite-only Closed Beta release! The new social network is also a hit with users, unlike previous efforts like Orkut and Buzz. As with any social network, however...

New Report Finds U.S. Hosting Providers Infested With Malware, Botnets

The United States used to be the leading industrial nation in the world, producing the best cars, TVs, clothes and deep-fried Twinkies. Those days are gone, but the U.S. can still claim primacy in one important area: the most malware-infested, phishing-friendly hosting provider. The newest report...

Welcome to the Zoo

Everybody knows the Twitter Fail Whale, but Twitter’s hardly the only flaky Web service out there, and the Fail Whale is just one creature in a whole Fail menagerie that’s sprung up in recent years to soothe hacked off Web users. Check out Threatpost’s Fail Zoo: a collection of the strangest fail...

Conficker Working Group: Efforts To Fight Botnet A Mixed Bag

A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm’s efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, but failing to remove the worm from infected Windows computers. The report released this...

ZDNet Security Blogger Goes Missing in Bulgaria

A prominent blogger and security researcher, Dancho Danchev, has gone missing and security publications, including Threatpost.com, are asking for help in locating him. Danchev, who contributed regular posts to ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, part of CBS Interactive, has been missing since late October...

Threatpost's List of the Top 10 Security Top 10 Lists

Ever since the traditional print industry collapsed in on itself like a decommissioned ‘Vegas casino, replaced with blogs, micro blogs, social networking and other forms of Web based publishing, the end of the year has brought with it a blizzard of retrospective and prospective Top 10 lists from...

Video: Wikileaks, Data Security and the SMB

Threatpost editor Paul Roberts discusses issues that matter to small businesses including the impact of the recent Wikileaks debacle and the need for improved endpoint security, patch management and data protection on Pulse Network’s ITEC This Week with hosts Tyler Pyburn and Bill Sell...

Zeus Variant Targets Mobile Online Banking Apps

Researchers have discovered a variant of the Zeus bot malware that specifically targets users who perform online-banking operations from the mobile phones, playing on the increasingly common use of SMS-based one-time passwords in order to dupe users into loading the malware. The attack begins wit...

Exploit Code, List of Apps Vulnerable to DLL Hijacking Hit the Web

The list of applications known to be vulnerable to the Windows DLL-hijacking bug is growing by the hour, with some sites listing more than 30 vulnerable applications right now. A large portion of the known vulnerable apps belong to Microsoft, including PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Live Email. On...

Paul Roberts Joins Threatpost

In the year and a half since we first launched Threatpost, the site has grown very quickly, probably more quickly than any of us had even hoped it might. We’ve added a couple of regular podcasts, original videos, developed a stable of terrific regular contributors and recently launched our first...