Social media threats and targeted attacks
In the video below, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi, the Head of Online Threats Lab at BitDefender, talks about the new breed of social media threats and sophisticated targeted …
How secure is your browser?
Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek talks about research which clearly shows that browser security is alarmingly bad. Browsers and plug-ins are frequently outdated and easily attacked. …
Cenzic at a glance
John Weinschenk, President & CEO of Cenzic, talks about the company and their product line. Cenzic is a provider of software, managed service, and cloud security products …
The growth of cryptography
It’s not every day that Euclid appears in public with “Alice and Bob,” but in a lecture spanning a few thousand years, Ronald Rivest, a member of MIT’s …
The fundamental failure of endpoint security
According to Stefan Frei, Research Analyst Director with Secunia, it’s not the vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s products we should worry about, but those in …
Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan
Here is a 10-minute video reportage about Mikko Hypponen’s trip to Lahore, Pakistan, to find the authors of the first PC virus “Brain”. This is the first …
Securing the enterprise: Insight from Qualys
In this video, recorded at RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco, Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot talks about the myriad of innovations coming from the company: Next …
Video: Light painting Wi-Fi
This project explores the invisible terrain of Wi-Fi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four meter long measuring rod …
Video: RSA Conference 2011 showcase
In this RSA Conference 2011 video showcase, you can check out the look and feel of the event and the expo floor. The companies featured in the video are Qualys, Secunia, …
Injection attacks tutorial
This episode of the OWASP appsec tutorial series describes the #1 attack on the OWASP top 10 – injection attacks. The video illustrates SQL injection, discusses other …
USB autorun attacks against Linux
Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years. However, there have been many advances in …
Hacker recovers stolen computer and gets criminal caught
In this video recorded at DEFCON, a hacker has his computer stolen, and tells the story of how he recovered it and got the criminal caught. Although the story is quite …