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

Verizon, PRISM and Edward Snowden, Java users are bad at patching, cost of breaches is up, Microsoft operation takes down 1462 Citadel botnets, malware increasingly using peer to peer communications for command and control, and malware trends.

US power grid is highly vulnerable and under constant attack, Iran attacking energy companies, increase in sophisticated attacks against keys and certificates, Indian government site redirects to black hole exploit kit, FSB report find that only 36% of small businesses regularly patch, 5 quick wins from the DBIR, Google to give software vendors 7 days prior to releasing information on active exploits, and planning for the failure of malware prevention.

Adobe and Microsoft patches, signed Mac malware, EC Council website hacked, 7 steps to secure Java, Microsoft on invulnerable software, more on OpUSA, Ohio city's taxpayer database stolen and the importance of malware being invisible.

Adobe warns customers of a Cold Fusion 0day, Washing courts owned by that 0day, web servers found compromised with the Cdorked/Darkleech, critical vulnerability in Nginx, Anonymous' opUSA turned out to be a bunch of nothing, too many admins is bad for security, Name.com gets compromised, The Onion's twitter feed is compromise by the SEA, slippery slope of BYOD and Google's plans for authentication.

Twitter warns news agencies of attacks and to use dedicated PCs for using twitter, the US department of Labor website was compromised and serving up an 0day for IE8, 18 12-13 year olds in Alaska socially engineered passwords for 300 computers out of their teachers, iOS did NOT have a malicious app discovered, AV vendors are starting to shun Windows XP, 7 elements of a successful security awareness program, and the unforeseen impacts of cyberwar.

In this episode, another Java 0day, Symantec's Q1 2013 0day roundup, the Akamai State of the Internet report, the Verizon 2013 DBIR, AP's twitter feed hack, and cyber terrorists.

This week: Twitter account hacks highlight opportunity for exploitation by attackers, Microsoft and Malwarebytes both release bad patches, Oracle releases a Java patch which fixes 42 security bugs, Oracle announces that Java 8 is delayed due to the focus on Java 7, a new botnet is being created by compromising Wordpress installations for some unknown purpose, Linode was compromised in an attack targeted at some Linode customers, Microsoft finds a trojan that cleans up after itself in the next wave of anti-forensics, the Boston marathon bombing and West, Texas explosions see many phishing scams leading to malware installations, spam is down, targeted attacks via email are up, Microsoft released it's second half 2012 Security Intelligence Report with some odd mixes of data, Microsoft releases EMET 4.0 beta, and a former employee has been charged with planting back doors on 2723 Hostgator servers.

Vudu loses data because a drive stolen from their office was not encrypted, there was a spate of Windows and Adobe patches that allow remote code execution and local privilege escalations, SEC filings seem to contradict the hype around cyber attacks on companies in the US, There are 51 weeks left of Windows XP support, 2 ideas for better security, SSH is getting an update, Shylock got an update too, popular porn sites are serving malware through advertisements, and the Global Payments breach cost $93.9M.

This week I talk about the Internet crushing DDOS attack that really wasn't that bad, a court ruling against Choice Escrow who sued Bancorpsouth over $440k stolen from it's account because Choice Escrow did not use security measures offered by Bancorpsouth, the IEEE formed a standards body to work on 400G ethernet - will be interesting to watch firewall and IPS catch up to that, a customer of AMI posted BIOS source code on an open FTP server, new ransomeware distributes actual child pornography, Trend Micro's lessons on the South Korea malware outbreak.

Cisco password mistake, Etsy Java security strategy, South Korea malware, wipe a PC's drive after infection and security awareness training.