Security researcher Gadi Evron is revitalizing the Botnets mailing list to get researchers to share more raw data with the security community. Evron says information sharing is the key to reducing cybercrime.
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In this Security Newsmakers Podcast, SearchSecurity.com’s Neil Roiter asks Scott Weiss, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security Technology Group and former IronPort CEO, about the state of the self-defending network in 2008 and the impact of the acquisition over the past 18 months.
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Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council explains the changes ahead in version 1.2 of PCI DSS. The use of WEP is being eliminated and antivirus software is required for all operating systems, Russo said.
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Raffael Marty, author of Applied Security Visualization, talks about how security visualization techniques can help improve security decisions. Marty is chief security strategist at log analysis vendor Splunk.
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ModSecurity, the popular open source Web application firewall is getting a new tool that observes and analyzes application traffic and helps establish accepted behavior. In this special edition of Security Wire Weekly, Ivan Ristic, recognized for his work in building the ModSecurity, discusses his new ModProfiler and the challenges of deploying Web application firewalls. Ristic is vice president of security research at Breach Security Inc.
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Ashley Schwartau, director of a new documentary Hackers Are People Too, explains the challenges of making a movie about hackers. The documentary looks at the human side of the hacking community.The film debuted at DEFCON 16.
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Dan Kaminsky gave his Black Hat briefing this week, disclosing full details about the extent of the DNS cache poisoning flaw. Listen to excerpts of his briefing.
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Karsten Nohl, the security researcher who was part of a team that broke the crypto algorithm in the Mifare Classic RFID-based smart card, talks about his upcoming briefing at Black Hat in Las Vegas. Nohl, a University of Virgina graduate student talks about how RFID use could improve security in smart cards.
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Join the Security Squad for a quick preview of next week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. SearchSecurity.com editors talk about Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache poisoning flaw. The Pwnie award nominees are also reviewed. Which song submission could win? Listen to find out.
Pwnie award YouTube videos
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Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital, is the first guest on SearchSecurity.com’s newest podcast series, The Nameless Security Podcast with Dennis Fisher. McGraw discusses the state of software security, the increasing influence of outside disciplines on the security industry and how his own background in music and philosophy has influenced his work in security. Special thanks to Gary’s band, Where’s Aubrey? for the great intro music.
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