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BSides Boston 2014: HallwayCon
As I noted in previous posts, LobbyCon is an important part of any security conference experience. At BSides Boston Saturday, attendees will enjoy the ritual with a special twist.Organizers call it HallwayCon. A description from the BSides Boston website:First come, first served! (Sign-up and put your name and topic on the board!) These lightning talks are 15-minute each and will go throughout the entire day.A variation of this happened during
BSides Boston 2014: Dan Geer and Heartbleed
I first met Dan Geer 10 years ago, after he debated Microsoft's Scott Charney on the "Microsoft Monoculture" at a USENIX event in Boston. I was just starting to write about security and the man intimidated me. His intellect and speaking style were light years beyond anything I had comprehended before. As a news reporter, you talk to a lot of police officers, firefighters and politicians who speak in plain,
BSides Boston Keynote Profile: Jack Daniel
An old friend will deliver the first keynote of BSides Boston Friday: Jack Daniel, technical product manager at Tenable Network Security. His talk is called "Doomed to Repeat: InfoSec's Failure to Learn from the Past."
BSides Boston 2014: Full Agenda
Bsides Boston 2014 -- scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center -- promises to be another enlightening event. Akamai is a gold sponsor, and I'll be there both days. If you're thinking of going, here's the full agenda to consider:
Microsoft Releases Emergency IE Fix
Internet Explorer users take note: Microsoft issued an emergency security update yesterday to address a serious, widely-publicized vulnerability. Dustin C. Childs of Microsoft's Security Response Center announced the fix in a blog post yesterday.
Latest State of the Internet Report: Security Highli ...
Akamai released its Fourth Quarter 2013 State of the Internet Report last week. Security highlights include the following: DDoS traffic increased 23 percent quarter-over-quarter, up by 75 percent from fourth quarter 2012.Enterprise and commerce continued to be the industries targeted most frequently.China remained the top producer of attack traffic, growing to 43 percent of observed attack traffic.The United States also saw significant growth in observed attack traffic, while Indonesia's contribution
Highlights of Prolexic Q1 2014 Global DDoS Attack Re ...
Akamai recently released the Prolexic Q1 2014 Global DDoS Attack Report. What follows are some of the key points, including a 114-percent increase in the average peak bandwidth of attacks.Download the full report HERE
Two Embarrassing Security Lessons
Good news: I got another look at how well Akamai's security procedures work. Bad news: It's because I made two simple mistakes. And I knew better.
Storm Stress Tester Crimeware Kit Targets Windows
The Akamai Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) has discovered a new tool attackers could use to target Microsoft Windows. The PLXsert advisory describes it this way: The Storm kit is capable of infecting Windows XP (and higher) machines for malicious uses, including execution of DDoS attacks. Once a PC is infected, the Storm Network Stress Tester crimeware kit establishes remote administration (RAT) capabilities on the infected machine, enabling