How I Got Here: Chris Wysopal

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Wysopal of Veracode about his journey from a teenage BBS user to member of the L0pht to respected security researcher. Known as Weld Pond since his days at the L0pht, Chris also discussed his time at @stake and how the L0pht’s road trip to DC to testify before...

Veracode's VP of Research Chris Eng, Moderator of the Dangers in Mobile Devices Session

Chris Eng of Veracode moderated the mobile threats track...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

Infographic: Stuxnet's Cyberwar Vines Untangled

Keeping track of the relationships between various malware families can be hard, especially when you’re talking about espionage tools such as Stuxnet and Gauss. Veracode has put together an infographic as a general recap of the life and times of Stuxnet, the much-discussed cyber worm that first...

How SQL Injection Attacks Work

SQL injection attacks have been going on for years, and the vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques are well-understood and widely discussed. However, they’re still quite prevalent and are used in a variety of scenarios. One recent example is the attack on a Yahoo site that resulted in a brea...

AdiOS Finds iOS Apps Capable of Dumping Users' Contacts

It’s gotten to the point now where it’s almost easier to talk about the mobile apps and services that don’t ship your personal data off to some remote server for purposes unknown rather than discussing the ones that do. The latest discussion of privacy invading apps flowed from the discovery that...

Image of the Day: Visualizing the PlayStation Network Hack

While this spring’s PlayStation Network hack was certainly massive, a new infographic from Veracode illustrates just how sprawling the attack really was. The graphic traces the breach back to April’s “external intrusion” and eventual shuttering of Sony’s online gaming network along with the...

Pandora Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data

A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers. The analysis was...

Veracode Announces Mobile App Verification Service

Application testing firm Veracode said on Wednesday that it was expanding its service to vet the security of mobile applications to cover Apple iPhone and Google Android devices. In a statement, Veracode said it was accepting submissions of mobile applications for testing for all mobile platforms...

Free Service Targets XSS Bugs in Java Apps

Cross-site scripting bugs have been a major problem for Web site operators for years now, and while their causes and their solutions are both well-understood, they’re still quite pervasive. But a new free service is aiming to help site owners avoid the serious compromises that can follow an attac...

57 Percent of Apps Have Poor Security: Report

Findings from Veracode’s report “State of Software Security Report: Volume 2.” show that overall quality of applications remains poor, with 57 percent failing to meet acceptable levels of security. New results demonstrate that cloud/web-based applications are the most commonly scrutinized, and wi...

Report: Reused, Third Party Code Major Sources of Insecurity

A new report out from security testing firm Veracode suggests that reused and third party code is a big source of application insecurity. Application security is a sore spot for many organizations, as attackers shift the battlefield from operating system and network attacks to application specifi...

Verizon DBIR Cryptography Challenge: Here's The First Clue

So, according to a little birdie tweeting in the night, the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR contains another encryption challenge that leads to actual cash prizes. Last year, after I dropped a big clue here, Grant Stavely, Chris Eng and others decoded the hidden message on the...

Tyler Shields on the BlackBerry Spyware and the Coming Wave of Smartphone Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with Tyler Shields of Veracode about his BlackBerry spyware application, txsBBSPY, the coming wave of smartphone attacks and his lack of surprise about the Google Aurora attack. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Chris Wysopal, Veracode

Chris was one of the first security researchers I met, in 2000, when he and the rest of the L0pht had just become part of @stake. I’ve probably interviewed him more often than anyone else on this list and he’s helped me with dozens of stories over the years. He always had five minutes to explain...

BlackBerry Spyware Package Shown at ShmooCon

This video demonstrates a proof-of-concept BlackBerry spyware package developed by Tyler Shields, one of Veracode’s senior security researchers...

An Analysis of the BlackBerry Spyware

From Zero in a Bit Chris Eng Yesterday it was reported by various media outlets that a recent BlackBerry software update from Etisalat a UAE-based carrier contained spyware that would intercept emails and text messages and send copies to a central Etisalat server. We decided to take a look to fin...

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Pidgin formerly Gaim is an instant messaging client for a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin: Veracode reported a boundary error in the "XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server" when initiating an outgoing file transfer...