As if every week wasn't busy enough with new information security (InfoSec) news, this week was the RSA Conference, which brings with it a whole new batch of security news. If you find yourself struggling to keep up, follow my daily or weekly videos to get a quick summary of the latest relevant news. This week, I was too busy at the RSA Conference to post my daily videos, but … [Read more...]
NYT Tango Down – WSWiR Episode 75
.CN DDoS and DNS Hijacking Do you want to hear about the week's biggest InfoSec news, while learning a few security tips in the process? Well this is the weekly vlog for you. In today's video, I share a potential cause for China's recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, warn about a serious vulnerability in Cisco's ACS, and explain how a hacktivist group took down … [Read more...]
Facebook Hacked- WSWiR Episode 74
App Store Hole, LoL Breach, and Zuckerberg Hacked I'm back with our regular infosec news video summary, where I highlight the biggest or most interesting security stories from the week and share a few tips along the way. Today's episode covers a handful of software updates, the breach of a popular multiplayer arena battle game, some drama around a new Facebook vulnerability, … [Read more...]
Android Bitcoin Wallets Broken – WSWiR in Words
Hacked Baby Monitors, Broken Bitcoins, and Apache Exploit Kits By the time you see this on Friday, I'll be hiking and camping in the Olympic National Forest. I'm taking a day off this week for an extended camping weekend. Unfortunately, that also means I did not have time to produce a full InfoSec summary video... but fear not. In lieu of this week's video, I'm leaving you … [Read more...]
TorSploit – WSWiR Episode 73
BREACH, TorSploit, and Fort Disco Sorry for the late posting, but your weekly taste of "what's up" in the InfoSec world is here for your viewing pleasure. As always, I summarize some of this week's biggest network and information security news, in case you didn't have time to follow it yourself. This week was packed with security stories, but I only had time to focus on four. … [Read more...]