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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision. Last month, on the anniversary of the landmark memo, Microsoft patched nearly 120 holes in Windows and other products. From Microsoft Digital Defense Report, October 2021.). Nine were critical. They are not.”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. In February 2021. Vamosi: And then there's the small matter of hardware itself. Hash: Because you know, hardware hacking, you got to be able to get the hardware like it's awful. Hard and hardware hack with no hardware.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Hyper-V

ForAllSecure

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. So what does that really mean, think about all the hardware devices and interfaces that are needed to connect your physical server to the network. So it's a race.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. I remember reading a report that Google had implemented hardware tokens, their entire employee, everybody has a hardware token.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general.