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Thanks go to Jeremiah Grossman for sitting down with Michael for some great discussion. Jeremiah is the CTO at Whitehat Security and a very well known figure in the InfoSec industry. Jeremiah and Michael talk about Hawaii, sharks, security philosophy, RSA, stage fright, Jeremiah’s TED talk (not published as of the posting of this entry), […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Recently some news came out from NY Times and HD Moore where he was doing some targeted scanning and found a bunch of open H.323 videoconference systems open and ready for viewing. What he found was that a lot of these systems are deployed outside of the firewall on the Internet without any security and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
This is from a local Houston Symantec source, but is widely available to everyone. Current on date of posting. We’ll see what shakes out. "Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code used in two of our older enterprise products has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued. The code involved is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
I was going through some old blog posts, and one I found contained the following story: Mouse Story A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Wow! 6 Months…and 2 job changes later, we are finally back to recording! YEAH!….Here the latest show from our intrepid hosts. Show Notes: InfoSec News Update – The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 – Link Here Japan’s Anti-Virus Virus – Link Here Nginx (pronunciation: "engine-ex") becomes #2 web server Saudi hackers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
My wife and I homeschool, so we include our kids in a lot of extracurricular "stuff" to hopefully keep them well-rounded. One of the things my oldest son does is take a Lego engineering class at a small local school that caters to homeschoolers. Last year, when we first signed up for the school, we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
A while back I tweeted about my acceptance of the Security Technology Advocate role at Accuvant. To be clear, I am not going to be fully transitioned into the role until Jan 1, 2012. But I have been doing some work in the new gig, and I have already experienced a lot of changes on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
siriproxy-snorby from Dustin Webber on Vimeo. You just HAVE to like this
In the Bible (no, this is not a sermon – yes, this is InfoSec relevant), there was this group that Paul ran into called the Berean Jews. (Acts 17:10-15 if you want to look it up). These Bereans were shown in the scriptures to be diligent people who checked the facts. Verse 11 says: Now the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Today we have an interview for you. Michael had a great time sitting down with four gentlemen (they might not all agree with that term) from SpiderLabs over at Trustwave. The aforementioned SpiderLabs folks were Nicholas Percoco (@c7five), Steve Ocepek (@nosteve), Matt Jakubowski (@jaku), and Zack Fasel (@zfasel) – those are Twitter aliases for you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
