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Speaking of Security Podcast #43

2006-12-18 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (10:58 To close out our first year of the podcast, we take a look at how people can break into the information security industry. We speak with two established experts and investigate the various avenues people can take to get into this business as well as learn what skills one would need to be successful Please...
 
Tags: podcast, avenues people, national science foundation, information security industry, podcast team, people, electronics engineers, massachusetts amherst, holidays
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #84

2007-11-12 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (07:27 Paul Joyal speaks with Dan Wilson, Vice President and Co-Founder of Accuvant , one of RSA's key channel partners about their business, their information-centric strategy for security, and a recent award that they received . Please note that we will be taking a short break for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday,...
 
Tags: paul joyal speaks, key channel partners, vice president, recent award, dan wilson, security, podcast, listendownload, strategy
 
 
 
 
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Phish and Foul

2007-07-20 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Phishing ," as you probably know, is a form of online con game. Users are lured by e-mail messages to legitimate-seeming but criminal sites--typically falsified versions of their real banking sites--and encouraged to enter password information. Having harvested this information, the operators of the criminal sites use it to break into victims'...
 
Tags: sites, criminal sites, information, enter password information, online con game, e-mail, e-mail messages, security community, term suggests
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #63

2007-05-22 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (07:30 Our feature interview is with Speaking of Security Blogger, Burt Kaliski , now director of the EMC Innovation Network . Burt talks about the creation of the Network and about his transition from Director and Chief Scientist of RSA Laboratories . We also announce that June is Speaking of Security podcast...
 
Tags: network, emc innovation network, memorial day holiday, june, burt kaliski, director, security blogger, burt talks, rsa laboratories
 
 
 
 
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Security Strength Measurement for Dongle-Protected Software

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Many people consider dongles to be among the strongest forms of copy protection, but how much security do they actually offer? The model presented here aims to monetize the security strength of dongle-protected software by forecasting the amount of time a hypothetical attacker would take to break it
 
Tags: security strength, security, software, copy protection, hypothetical attacker, dongles, time, offer, model
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage seen as growing threat to business, government

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Cyber espionage is getting renewed attention as fresh evidence emerges of online break-ins at U.S. research labs and targeted phishing against corporations and government agencies here and abroad
 
Tags: cyber espionage, fresh evidence emerges, research labs, government agencies, online break-ins, attention, corporations, abroad
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft lists apps Vista SP1 will break

2008-02-22 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Several major third-party, anti-virus programs will need to be updated before they work with the soon-to-be-released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft Corp. said
 
Tags: sp1, microsoft corp, anti-virus programs, major third-party
 
 
 
 
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Critical VMware bug lets attackers zap 'real' Windows

2008-02-24 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
There's no patch as of yet for a shared folder flaw that allows 'break-outs' from virtual machines running VMware's virtualization software for Windows clients into the underlying host system, the company has confirmed
 
Tags: vmware, host system, windows clients, folder flaw, virtualization software, virtual machines, break-outs, company, patch
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance without costly consultants

2008-03-03 09:23:24 by Joel Dubin in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Midmarket companies get no break when it comes to PCI compliance. The best defense, says this expert, is plenty of documentation
 
Tags: pci compliance, midmarket companies, plenty, expert, defense, documentation
 
 
 
 
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RFID hack could crack open 2 billion smart cards

2008-03-14 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A University of Virginia researcher has found a way to easily break into smart cards created by NXP Semiconductors
 
Tags: smart cards, nxp semiconductors, virginia researcher, university, easily