Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds

This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late 90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry...

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Carbon Black and Chronicle: Stronger Cybersecurity through Big Data and Analytics

This is another exciting day for cybersecurity professionals, for Carbon Black and for me personally. It’s also a very exciting way to kick of RSA 2019! Earlier today, we announced an exciting new integration with Chronicle Security to harness the power of big data and analytics. Our goal is to...

Backstory: An Alphabet Moon Shot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots...