New APT Attack, Honan Hack, and Upcoming Updates This week was rife with security news, including two pretty big, headline-grabbing security stories. I cover them both -- and more -- in this week's WatchGuard Security Week in Review. Today's episode shares the fascinating details about how a hacker leveraged cloud security problems to destroy the online life of a Wired … [Read more...]

MS-CHAPv2 Hacked, Dropbox Breached, and Routers Rooted Last week's video highlighted the presentations I saw at  Blackhat and DEF CON this year. However, that was just a tiny glimpse into all the interesting security talks given at these popular conferences. This week, I share a few more conference highlights, including talks about problems with the authentication protocol used … [Read more...]

Blackhat 2012 Edition Blackhat Vegas and Defcon are arguably two of the biggest security conferences of the year, where thousands of CSOs, security administrators, and hackers get together to share the latest attack and defense techniques. Blackhat wrapped up last night, and Defcon starts today. During this week's security recap, I highlight some of the briefings I attended at … [Read more...]