The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

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Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Speaking at this ... Read More

Securing Your APIs

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It’s safe to say that APIs are now a critical part of modern application architectures today. In the age of SaaS applications and infrastructure, many architectures are designed around being API-first for managing data ingestion and retrieval. Unfortunately, with this ever increasing critical infrastructure most application testing solutions are not ... Read More

The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hunt for Ghost #1

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Ghost #1 was a digital film projector that should have stayed blacklisted but due to a unique software flaw it continued to produce pirated films. Patrick Von Sychowski from the Celluloid Junkie joins the Hacker Mind podcast to discuss his SecTor 2021 talk on Ghost #1, explaining how the transition ... Read More

EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

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In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? Ali Davanian and Ahmad Darki join the Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 talk and their tool, CnCHunter , ... Read More

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

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What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Ludrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their 2021 Black Hat USA talk. They discuss how software and IoT companies can ... Read More

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

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PPP wanted to give their past high school selves the infosec education they didn’t have. But if you think picoCTF is only for HS students, think again ... Read More

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Hyper-V

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At Black Hat USA 2021, two researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure ... Read More
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Jen Easterly Takes Charge of CISA At Black Hack USA 2021

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The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle ... Read More

Software Is Assembled

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It is important to understand that there is no 100% in security. Frankly, it is impossible to secure everything all the time. So more often than not, we're putting obstacles in front of an adversary, so they go somewhere else. That's not defeatist; that's reality ... Read More
Matt Tait Warns of Stolen Zero Days at Black Hat USA 2021

Matt Tait Warns of Stolen Zero Days at Black Hat USA 2021

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Matt Tait opened Day 1 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote keynote presentation on supply chain compromises entitled “Supply Chain Infections and the Future of Contactless Deliveries.” ... Read More