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Video: DIY Command & Control for fun and no profit

Many security professionals have heard about Command & Control botnets, even more have been infected by them. Very few have had the opportunity to actually look inside …

Video: Stop making excuses, it’s time to own your high impact vulnerabilities

Most systems are insecure, not because we don’t know about or understand the vulnerability but because we fail at planning and communicating the solution to address or …

Video: Weaponizing your coffee pot

As SoC price continue to drop and their implementation continues to rise, connected appliances (Internet of Things) will be become an attractive avenue for cyber criminals. …

Video: Recent advances in IPv6 security

There are a number of factors that make the IPv6 protocol suite interesting from a security standpoint. Firstly, being a new technology, technical personnel has much less …

Video: How the grid will be hacked

There is a never ending stream of vulnerabilities in the mechanical and cyber systems that support the grid. So, why hasn’t there been any significant breach of the …

Video: Practical exploitation using a malicious SSID

In this video from DerbyCon, Deral Heiland discusses the leveraging of SSIDs to inject various attacks into wireless devices, and management consoles. The type of injection …

Bruce Schneier: The battle for power on the Internet

Bruce Schneier gives us a glimpse of the future of the internet, and shares some of the context we should keep in mind, and the insights we need to understand, as we prepare for it.

Video: Cracking corporate passwords

Cracking corporate passwords is different than cracking public MD5 leaks off of pastebin. Corporate passwords are not in the same formats you are used to, they require capital …

Video: NSA hearing in the European Parliament

Embedded below is the full video of the NSA hearing in the Human Rights Committee (LIBE) in the European Parliament 5 September 2013, which runs at 03:25 hours. Courtesy of …

Online privacy: How did we get here?

As technology has evolved over the past two centuries, so have our expectations about privacy. This new digital world allows us to connect with each other with increasing …

Bruce Schneier on power and security

In this video, Bruce Schneier talks about trust. We all trust millions of people, organizations, and systems every day — and we do it so easily that we barely notice. …

Video with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

This video features an interview with Edward Snowden, the man behind the most significant intelligence leak in U.S. history. Copyright © 2013 Praxis Films / Laura Poitras.

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