Videos

In this talk from the TEDx San Jose conference, security and privacy researcher Chris Soghoian explains the way that surveillance works these days, why it's so easy for law enforcement to watch private citizens and why companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and others won't protect their users from this surveillance.

Threatpost has spoken before with Carnegie Mellon University professor Alessandro Acquisti, one of the country's leading authorities on the impact of social networks and emerging technologies on privacy. In a talk last week at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society titled “Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality,” the professor who specializes in the economics of privacy, shares his research on how loose privacy protections affect how people conduct themselves on social networks.

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Students at MIT took to the university's Cecil and Ida Green Building over the weekend to transform the 21-story research building into an oversized, playable game of Tetris. Emulating the classic '80s video game with the help of a console and 153 color-changing LED lights, students were able to rotate and move colored blocks across the building. Like the original puzzle game, once someone lost, all of the colored blocks fell to the bottom of the building. Read more »

A segment from last night's Rock Center, Brian Williams' TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around.  Read more »

Avi Rubin is the technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and in this talk from the TEDxMidAtlantic conference in November he discusses the history of hacks on various devices, including implanted medical devices, cars and virtually anything else with a computer chip. Read more »

Threatpost editor Paul Roberts talks with Adobe's Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy, Brad Arkin on patch management, driving up the cost of exploits and the amount of manpower that goes into recovering from zero days. Read more »

Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher and Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu discuss the timing of the Duqu attacks, how that may hint at the identities of its creator and what other mysteries about the worm remain. Read more »

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and his guests, Michael Guigli, CEO of CloudConnect and Tim Armstrong, Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab as they discuss Virtualization and the security challenges faced by small businesses.

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A new banking Trojan variant can bypass CAPTCHA, as demonstrated by a video posted today by security firm Websense on their Security Labs blog. Read more »

The security of Android devices has come under quite a lot of scrutiny in recent months, with researchers identifying various root exploits and permission leaks that could be exploited. In this video, researcher Thomas Cannon of ViaForensics demonstrates a method for setting up a remote shell on an Android device without using any exploits or vulnerabilities. The method works on various versions of Android, up to and including Gingerbread. Read more »