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HNS Podcast: Jeremiah Grossman’s top security conferences
Jeremiah Grossman, the founder and Chief Technology Officer of WhiteHat Security attends quite a number of security conferences around the globe. A couple of weeks ago we had …
Interview with Josh Corman, Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems
Joshua Corman serves as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. With more than ten years of experience in security and networking software …
Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P’, automatically generate an exploit for the potentially …
The Fundamentals of Physical Security
Deviant Ollam works as a network engineer and security consultant but his strongest love has always been teaching. A supporter of First Amendment rights who believes that the …
Changing Threats, Changing Solutions: A History of Viruses and Antivirus
It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly. Today’s threats are more complex than ever …
HNS Podcast: Penetration testing considerations
In this HNS podcast, Anothony Alves from CORE Security Technologies talks about penetration testing. He dicusses the things you should look for when considering doing a …
Hacking Second Life
At Black Hat in Amsterdam we caught up with Michael Thumann, CSO of ERNW. In this video he discusses Second Life hacking. Beyond being an online game Second Life is a growing …
Interview with Chris Sanders, Author of “Practical Packet Analysis”
Chris Sanders is a Senior Support Engineer for KeeFORCE, a technology consulting firm. Chris writes and speaks on various topics including packet analysis, network security, …
Data Loss Prevention: Where Do We Go From Here?
DLP is fast becoming one of the most overused yet misunderstood acronyms in an industry known for its cryptic abbreviations. The popular label for data loss prevention is …
HNS Podcast: InfoSec World Conference & Expo
Jean Hey, Vice President of MIS Trainining Institute talks about InfoSec World Conference & Expo, event that the Help Net Security staff attended in early March. In this …
HNS Podcast: Vulnerability Management Considerations
In this HNS podcast, Anthony Alves from CORE Security Technologies discusses briefly vulnerability management. He covers some of the things you should consider while …
Empirical Exploitation of Live Virtual Machine Migration
As virtualization continues to become increasingly popular in enterprise and organizational networks, operators and administrators are turning to live migration of virtual …
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