This episode sponsored by Thinkst.On this week’s show we’re taking a look at some recent data out of Microsoft trumpeting its Defender antivirus install figures on Windows. They’ve got 18% market share on windows 7/9 and 50% on Win10.
For the AV and endpoint security industry Microsoft has always been the existential threat, but has the plane flown into the mountain already? We’ll speak with Securosis analyst and DisruptOps founder Rich Mogull about that in this week’s feature interview.
In this week’s sponsor interview we’re joined by the always entertaining Haroon Meer of Thinkst Canary. When we spoke Haroon had just wrapped up his first ever booth at the RSA conference. He’ll join us this week to tell us, surprisingly, that it was a really worthwhile exercise for Thinkst, but as you’ll hear he also thinks the broader industry can be a pack of dumbasses when it comes to actually marketing tech at events like RSA. If he becomes global ruler RSA booths will be gimmick-free and just show people product demos.
The show notes/news items are below, and you can follow Adam or Patrick on Twitter if that’s your thing.
Show notes
- BREAKING: Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure
- FTC urges Twitter users to change passwords | TheHill
- Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies - BBC News
- Patrick Gray on Twitter: "There are teams workshopping ideas like this in Tehran right now, guaranteed. Personally I'm more worried about Iranian ICS hax. They've gotten good at that stuff.… https://t.co/XQBvRcUKw9"
- Caroline O. on Twitter: "NEW: The Senate Intelligence Committee released its prelim findings into Russian targeting of election infrastructure during the 2016 election. "In a small # of states, Russian-affiliated cyber actors were in a position to, at a minimum, alter or delete voter registration data."… https://t.co/Y0GMwUZEFU"
- Facebook security analyst is fired for using private data to stalk women | Ars Technica
- Sources: Facebook Has Fired Multiple Employees for Snooping on Users - Motherboard
- Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone | Ars Technica
- Android App With 10 Million Downloads Left Users’ Photos and Audio Messages Exposed to Public - Motherboard
- Hundreds of big-name sites hacked, converted into drive-by currency miners | Ars Technica
- Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on software companies | Ars Technica
- Over 10,000 companies downloading software vulnerable to Equifax hack
- European Central Bank proposes framework to strengthen financial system’s defenses
- Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says | The Texas Tribune
- Defector: WikiLeaks ‘Will Lie to Your Face’
- SiliVaccine: Inside North Korea’s Anti-Virus - Check Point Research
- You Can Finally Encrypt Slack Messages So Your Boss Can't Read Them - Motherboard
- Microsoft May 2018 Patch Tuesday Fixes 67 Security Issues, Including IE Zero-Day
- Vulnerabilities Affecting Over One Million Dasan GPON Routers Are Now Under Attack
- He Fled a Prison in Iceland. Now It’s Good to Be Back. - The New York Times
- Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash | Ars Technica
- Carbon Black stocks close 26 percent up on first day of public trading
- Why Windows Defender Antivirus is the most deployed in the enterprise – Microsoft Secure
- thinkst Thoughts...: Considering an RSAC Expo booth? Our Experience, in 5,000 words or less
