Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 74
Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 74
Hosts: Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist, Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher and Ron Gula, Tenable CEO/CTO
Announcements
- Several new blog posts have been published this week, including:
- Check out our video channel on YouTube that contains the latest Nessus and SecurityCenter 4 tutorials.
- We're hiring! - Visit the Tenable web site for more information about open positions.
- You can subscribe to the Tenable Network Security Podcast on iTunes!
- Tenable Tweets - You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tenablesecurity where we make various announcements, provide Nessus plugin statistics and more!
Stories
- Penetration Testing Execution Standard - A group has been formed to define what a penetration test really is and means. Several standards and compliance documents reference a "penetration test", but yet no one has really taken the time to define it. Carlos and I are involved with this effort, myself on the vulnerability scanning portion and Carlos on the post-exploitation side.
- Analyzing PDF exploits for finding payloads used - If you are defending a network, you should read up on analyzing malicious PDFs, as they are likely being sent to your users.
- Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) - This was a fantastic event, thanks to all who participated!
- With hacking, music can take control of your car - I've always pondered the use of music files and images as a way to take over a system. It happens so naturally; people play music and view images all the time, so what if there were a malicious payload inside? It's a difficult thing to defend against. For example, how do you check a music file that will be played in your car for viruses? Anti-virus software for your car?
- Router-rooting malware pwns Linux-based network devices - First off, this is a password attack. Second, malware for Linux-based routers is not new (i.e. "Chuck Norris worm"), but still remains a threat for which we have little defense against. Still, to this day, people do not often consider vulnerabilities on embedded systems to be a big enough problem to pay attention to. However, if an attacker can compromise the router or access point, they can manipulate all of the traffic flowing through it.
- Making sport of browser security, hackers topple IE, Safari - Browsers continue to fall at the "Pwn2own" contest. What can we do to protect our users from these exploits? I'm starting to think there is no such thing as a "secure" web browser, likely due to usability and features driving development, not security.
Presentation: Dr. Tom Langstaff
Dr. Tom Longstaff is the Chief Scientist for the Cyber Missions Branch at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. APL is a University Affiliated Research Center, a division of the Johns Hopkins University. Tom joined APL in 2007 to work with a wide variety of infocentric operations projects on behalf of the U.S. Government to include technology transition of cyber R&D, information assurance, intelligence, and global information networks.
His talk is titled: "Where the Wild Things Are: Analyzing Attack and Defense in Our Modern Global Cyberspace"
Paul Asadoorian
As founder and CEO of Security Weekly, Paul remains one of the world’s foremost experts on all things cybersecurity. Security Weekly is a one-stop resource for podcasts, webcasts and other content, informing community members about penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, ethical hacking and embedded device testing. Previously, Paul served as a lead IT security specialist for Brown University, and as an instructor with The SANS Institute.Related articles
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