Yahoo says it is investigating reports of 200 million user credentials advertised for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker that goes by the handle “peace_of_mind”. The Yahoo credentials, according to the site listing the database for sale, includes usernames, passwords (hashed using the MD5 algorithm), birthdates and backup emails for some accounts. 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

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a wireless keyboard vulnerability – KeySniffer, NIST’s statement on 2FA, a LastPass remote compromise bug, and a new Tor paper. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_29_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_15_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including all things Android: the crypto weakness, the full disk encryption bypass, and new malware, Hummingbad, which impacts the mobile operating system. The three also discuss the TP-Link router fiasco. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_8_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Bitcoin phishing campaign, the Kaspersky Lab ransomware report, misconfigured email servers, and a decline in Angler exploit kit traffic. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_June_24_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

At last week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, explains whether this a big deal and how the upgrades address some problems he’d disclosed to Apple. Download: Patrick_Wardle_on_MacOS_Gatekeeper_Security.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, another Flash zero day, and how the poorly the FBI is doing with facial recognition software. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_June_17_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the LinkedIn breach, TeslaCrypt closing up shop, and a breakthrough in random number generation. The two also recap this week’s Source conference in Boston. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_20_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves