LAS VEGAS—Gunter Ollmann, CSO at Vectra networks, talks to Mike Mimoso at Black Hat about ransomware as a prototype for malware going forward, as well as the long-term future of exploit kits and whether IoT is something that can be secured sooner rather than later. Download: Gunter_Ollman_on_Ransomware_Exploit_Kits_and_IoT.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

LAS VEGAS—There’s been an abundance of attacks against crypto over the last few years but a much simpler, scarier threat, cookie hijacking, remains significantly overlooked in the eyes of researchers. Two academics, Suphannee Sivakorn, a PhD student at Columbia University, and Jason Polakis, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois discussed just how woefully inadequate...

Joshua Drake of Zimperium Labs talks to Mike Mimoso about the last year post-Stagefright, the effectiveness of Google’s monthly patching cycle, and some of the security enhancements forthcoming in Android N. Download: Joshua_Drake_on_Post-Stagefright_Android.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

LAS VEGAS – Credit card companies for the most part have moved away from “swipe and signature” credit cards to chip and pin cards by this point; the technology known as EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) which is supposed to provide consumers with an added layer of security is beginning to see some wear, according to researchers....

LAS VEGAS – There is no guarantee that the internet will succeed. And if we aren’t careful we can really screw it up. It has happened before and we can do it again. The warning comes from technologist Dan Kaminsky who says there is a need to treat the internet similarly to the way the...

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook preview Black Hat 2016, including Ivan Krstic’s talk on Apple/iOS security, Dan Kaminsky’s keynote, IoT, PAC malware, and more. Download: Threatpost_Black_Hat_2016_Preview.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves