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August 3rd, 2009

Black Hat recap podcast: SSL, SMS, BIOS rootkits

Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 2:10 pm

Categories: Anti Virus, Apple, Arbitrary Code Execution, Black Hat, Botnets, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Firefox, Hackers, Mobile (In)Security, Mozilla, Passwords, Patch Watch, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, iPhone

Tags: Black Hat, SSL, SMS, Rootkits, BIOS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Podcasts, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Telephony

In this podcast, I chat with Threatpost.com co-editor Dennis Fisher about the big news coming out of the Black Hat security conference.  We discuss the attacks using SMS and MMS, rootkits in keyboards and BIOSes, vulnerabilities in SSL and the response from vendors to these problems. Listen here [mp3].

Ryan NaraineRyan Naraine is a journalist and security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab. He manages Threatpost.com, a security news portal. Here is Ryan's full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.


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Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign, responds to these Black Hat presentations in his new SSL blogpost:

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