Mat Gangwer, CTO, and Tom Gorup, Security Operations Lead, at Rook Security talk to Mike Mimoso about the aggressive rise in online extortion and how it threatens not only data but physical safety.

According to Marcus Sachs, CSO with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, doomsday fears of a cyberattack against the U.S. electric grid are overblown.

SMTP Strict Transport Security is coming to major webmail providers this year, a Google engineer said at RSA Conference

Researchers demonstrate how malicious apps can break into secure Android work containers on EMM managed phones.

Cris Thomas of Tenable Networks, aka Space Rogue of the L0pht, talks to Mike Mimoso during RSA Conference about the rhetoric and hype surrounding cyberwar, as well as a quick trip down memory lane with the L0pht and its famous 1998 testimony before Congress.

A RSA Conference panel tackles the difficulty in defining cyberwar.

Citing IoT insecurity, Bruce Schneier called on technologists to get involved with IoT policy at RSA.

Cryptographers said at the RSA Conference Tuesday they’re skeptical that advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence will profoundly transform computer security.

Threatpost Editor in Chief Mike Mimoso talks to crypto pioneer and security expert Bruce Schneier of Resilient Systems about the early days of the RSA Conference, the integration of privacy and security, and the current FBI-Apple debate over encryption and surveillance. [embedded content]

SAN FRANCISCO—Experts have stressed this week that DROWN is no Heartbleed, but at some point in the not too distant future, there’s going to be another major Internet vulnerability and developers at OpenSSL claim they’re battle tested. Rich Salz and Tim Hudson, members of OpenSSL’s development team, described in a talk at RSA Conference this week...