Defensive Security Podcast - Malware, Hacking, Cyber Security & Infosec

Bob's wisdom for the week; Learning from the Target breach; Question: given the massive Target breach, the Neiman Marcus breach and rumors of 6 other significant retailers being breached, assuming Target and others were complying with PCI rules, what will be the PCI council's response? AWS & GoDaddy hosting malware.

Advice from Bob; the Threat of Powerlocker, a new variant of ransomware; Senior managers are bad at security; More details emerge about the Target breach; and Jerry's rant about the PTV situation.

More wisdom from Bob; Yahoo's ad network delivers the magnitude exploit kit; OpenSSL site defaced by way of the hypervisor; How a 4 year long HIPAA breach highlights the need for activity monitoring; Credit Union files lawsuit against Target, seems to lack some facts; US CERT issues advisory on POS malware; 7 dodgy tips for protecting your organization from data breaches and why this security stuff is hard; A political rant on the state of security.

More advice from Bob; The Target breach; Hacking hard drive controllers; NSA shenanigans; Compromised BBC server for sale; 2014 predictions.

More advice from Bob; Chinese spear phish diplomats with Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's nude pictures; Network segmentation could have mitigated phishing attacks on governments; Krebs find organizations having systems with open RDP connections rented out; Generation Y employees have a dubious view on security; 61% of web traffic is automated; 5 recommendations on improving the security situation; Some great incident response documents from Society Generale; More ideas on cleaning up family's computers when visiting for the holidays.

More security thoughts from Bob; A paper on thwarting targeted email attacks from Japan; Security recommendations for SMB's from Sophos; An update on Badbios; How to handle our parent's infected home computers over the holidays.

99% of Indian programmers lack secure coding skills; Gartner's 5 styles of defending against advanced threats; Malware: the war without end; a discussion on the value of penetration testing.

Another tip from Bob; Anonymous blamed for stealing US Department of Health and Human Services Data; Cupid Media loses 42M unencrypted passwords in a breach they apparently did not disclose; Looking at a Ponemon study about views of IT security staff; Botnet take downs might be more marketing than helpful; New malware uses I2P for C&C; A longer than expected discussion on Stuxnet.

More advice from Bob; PCI 3 is here; Stats from a survey of malware analysts; A report from EastWest on measuring the Cyber Security Problem; The benefits of a GRC program; and we talk about web defacements.

Bob drops some more advice on malware; More details emerge about the Adobe password breach and it isn't pretty; Long live the security perimeter; Snowden highlights the importance of not sharing passwords, and the downside to when it happens; A new 0day impacting Internet Explorer is making the rounds; And part 2 of our talk on advanced malware.