Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. On the other are almost every cryptographer and computer security expert, repeatedly...

SANS THIR Summit Wrap Up – “We Have 15 Minutes”

Heading back to San Diego before I get on another flight 30 hours later. Lots of people say "what are you crazy? Why do that?"…to which I say: "we cannot achieve any mission without sacrifice." Going to events like the SANS Threat Hunting IR summit remind just how many dedicated people we have on...

Protecting the protector: Hardening machine learning defenses against adversarial attacks

Harnessing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence has enabled Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP next-generation protection to stop new malware attacks before they can get started often within milliseconds. These predictive technologies are central...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Feds

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Facebook’s chief security officer resigned as Facebook steps up its cybersecurity efforts. Also, Feds indicted three Ukrainians charged with...

Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses

ARCHIVED STORY Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses By Trellix · June 18, 2018 Every week we read about adversaries attacking their targets as part of online criminal campaigns. Information gathering, strategic advantage, and theft of intellectual property are some of the...

Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses

ARCHIVED STORY Apply MITRE’s ‘ATT&CK’ Model to Check Your Defenses By Trellix · June 18, 2018 Every week we read about adversaries attacking their targets as part of online criminal campaigns. Information gathering, strategic advantage, and theft of intellectual property are some of the...

Adversarial Robustness Toolbox: ART

The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox ART, an open source software library, supports both researchers and developers in defending deep neural networks against adversarial attacks, making AI systems more secure. Its purpose is to allow rapid crafting and analysis of attack and defense methods for...

The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy

As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...

Invoke-ATTACKAPI - A PowerShell Script To Interact With The MITRE ATT& CK Framework Via Its Own API

A PowerShell script to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its own API in order to gather information about techniques, tactics, groups, software and references provided by the MITRE ATT&CK Team @MITREattack. Goals Provide an easy way to interact with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework via its o...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...

Information Security Preparedness Tool: Metta

Metta is an open-source information security preparedness tool for adversarial simulation. As an emerging concept, the industry has yet to settle on a definitive definition of adversarial simulation, but it involves simulating components of targeted attacks in order to test both an organization’s...

A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing: PassGAN

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper JTR, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand dictionaries using password generation rules. Although these...

restic cryptography

tl;dr: this is not an audit and I take no responsibility for your backups, but I had a quick look at the crypto and I think I'm going to use restic for my personal backups. I keep hearing good things about restic. I am redoing my storage solution, and restic seems to tick all the boxes for my...

Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs

Researchers found that they could confuse the road sign detection algorithms of self-driving cars by adding stickers to the signs on the road. They could, for example, cause a car to think that a stop sign is a 45 mph speed limit sign. The changes are subtle, though -- look at the photo from the...

Metasploit for Machine Learning: Deep-Pwning

Deep-pwning is a lightweight framework for experimenting with machine learning models with the goal of evaluating their robustness against a motivated adversary. Note that deep-pwning in its current state is no where close to maturity or completion. It is meant to be experimented with, expanded...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: owasp-java-html-sanitizer-20160422.1-1.fc24

A fast and easy to configure HTML Sanitizer written in Java which lets you include HTML authored by third-parties in your web application while protecting against XSS. The code was written with security best practices in mind, has an extensive test suite, and has undergone adversarial security...