TWiT News

Aug 4th 2016

TWiT News 295

Black Hat 2016

The very latest news for information security research, development, and penetration testing.

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We go to the largest information security focused conference in the world, with topics ranging from how an ATM can be compromised, to cryptography, machine learning, enterprise penetration testing, and security best practices. Fr. Robert Ballecer interviews Omri Iluz from PerimiterX and talks about behavioral based web protection and how it protects systems from automated attacks. Then Jaime Blasco from AlienVault explains how breaches can be analyzed, researched, and quickly produce metrics for future provention. Rapid7 researchers demo what a ATM "schimmer" is, and why chip / pin cards are still very vulnerable. Pwnie Express brings visibility to all the devices connected to your network, which is essential for the new world of the Internet of Things. Craig Young from Tripwire shows how to extract the admin password from a router, and why it's important to secure your network. Finally Maxim Goncharov from Shape Security shows why the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) protocol was a good idea in 1996, but not anymore.

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