Tons of Patches, Facebook Botnets, and Infected Hand Scanners After a couple weeks of hiatus, we're finally back with our weekly security news summary video. If you want to learn about all the week's important security news from one convenience resource, this is the place to get it. This episode covers the latest popular software security updates from the last two weeks, and … [Read more...]
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Mysterious BadBIOS Malware – WSWiR Episode 83
Adobe Breach Gets Bigger, NSA MUSCULAR, and Mysterious Malware No time to follow Infosec news, but need to know the latest so you can protect your network? Well you've come to the right place. In my weekly, security summary video I quickly highlight the big security stories from the week, so you're aware of the latest threats and security news. Today's episode includes more … [Read more...]
Microsoft Revokes Certificate Due to Flame Malware
Last week, I wrote about a sophisticated new piece of malware called Flame, which infected various organizations in the Middle East. At the time, Antivirus vendors had just begun dissecting this advanced new worm, and expected to unveil even more interesting details about it as time went on. It looks like they won't disappoint. Today, two interesting new details have surfaced … [Read more...]
Duqu Malware Leverages a Zero Day Windows Kernel Flaw
Over the past year, I spoken a lot about Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), like Stuxnet, at presentations I've given around the world. In fact, one of my security predictions for this year concerned the increase in APTs (both as a true threat, and an overused term). If you've paid attention to security news over the past few weeks, you've probably read about a new piece of … [Read more...]
Tackling 2021 Security Planning and Budgeting
Annual planning and budgeting has always been a critical, albeit potentially cumbersome aspect of establishing a successful security posture. Information security doesn’t contribute directly to the bottom line for most companies and management often views it as a cost. That’s why it’s essential for CISO and security leaders to allocate the budget they do get as effectively as … [Read more...]