A New Cybersecurity “Social Contract”

The US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis wrote an essay outlining a new social contract for the cyber age: The United States needs a new social contract for the digital age -- one that meaningfully alters the relationship between public and private sectors and proposes a new set of obligations...

Users Can Deny The Treasury Manager Contract From Claiming COMP Incentives

Handle leastwood Vulnerability details Impact The treasury manager is appointed by the Notional DAO and is tasked with harvesting rewards both COMP incentives and assets from Notional and performing NOTE buybacks using WETH. The TreasuryManager.harvestCOMPFromNotional function is only callable by...

Users' tokens can be stuck inside LaunchEvent if the token doesn't revert on failed transfers

Handle UncleGrandpa925 Vulnerability details Impact Users' tokens can be stuck inside LaunchEvent if the token doesn't revert on failed transfers. Issue When users call withdrawIncentives, if for any reasons the token transfer fails & the token doesn't revert but only returns a boolean, the user'...

ConcentratedLiquidityPoolManager's incentives can be stolen

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The ConcentratedLiquidityPoolManager keeps all tokens for all incentives in the same contract. The reclaimIncentive function does not reduce the incentive.rewardsUnclaimed field and thus one can reclaim tokens several times. This allows anyone to steal all...

On Vulnerability-Adjacent Vulnerabilities

At the virtual Enigma Conference, Googles Project Zeros Maggie Stone gave a talk about zero-day exploits in the wild. In it, she talked about how often vendors fix vulnerabilities only to have the attackers tweak their exploits to work again. From a MIT Technology Review article: Soon after they...

Phishing Lures Shift from COVID-19 to Job Opportunities

Cybercriminals cashed in on the surge of COVID-19 earlier this year, with email lures purporting to be from healthcare professionals offering more information about the pandemic. However, as the year moves forward, bad actors are continuing to swap up their attacks with savvy lures that match...

IoT Security Principles

The BSA -- also known as the Software Alliance, formerly the Business Software Alliance which explains the acronym -- is an industry lobbying group. They just published "Policy Principles for Building a Secure and Trustworthy Internet of Things." They call for: Distinguishing between consumer and...

Paying Ransomware Crooks Doubles Clean-up Costs, Report

New research bolsters the often ignored advice to organizations not to pay a ransomware demanded by attackers. The report found paying a ransom to unlock systems can actually cost companies more financially than recovering data themselves in the long run. Research conducted by Vanson Bourne and...

Gamification Can Transform Company Cybersecurity Culture

Chief information security officers CISOs of Global 2000 enterprises have one of the toughest jobs in the world, defending their organization’s cyberspace and being the guardian of its assets and private information. But CISOs also have a second, even bigger problem: Their own company employees...

How To Build a Better Bug Bounty Program

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Every software company in the world, regardless of whether the...

Beers with Talos EP26: Talos is Holding a Conference, and the Evolving Battle at the Edge

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 26 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP26 Show Notes: Recorded 3/29/18 - Joel is sitting out this week, and Bill Largent from the Outreach...

Trend Micro Champions the AWS Marketplace Channel Opportunity Registration Program

Last year, Trend Micro launched our popular Deep Security as a Service offering on the AWS Marketplace, combining industry-leading threat protection for cloud workloads, effortless deployment, and the added bonus of a unified Amazon Web Services AWS bill. This has been a successful model for...

Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity

One thing technologists overtly shun is the prospect of government regulation. But recent DDoS attacks carried out by botnets of connected things have spooked some people of influence in security to the point where intervention by lawmakers may be inevitable. Testifying before subcommittees of th...

HackerOne Vulnerability Coordination Maturity Model

The proliferation of independent and vendor-sponsored bug bounties has not only put some money in researchers’ pockets, but has also forced enterprises—and software makers—to put processes in place to handle outside bug reports. “Saying you want one is not enough,” said Katie Moussouris, chief...

Bug Bounties Expanding to Individual Developers

Bug bounties once were restricted mainly to large software companies such as Mozilla and Google. But the success of these programs has led many other infrastructure and product companies, including Yahoo, Facebook, Barracuda, PayPal and even Microsoft, to launch their own reward systems. Now, the...

Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use: Protecting Electronic Health Information

Since 2009, healthcare providers and other companies providing services to the healthcare industry have been mobilizing to take advantage of government incentives to implement Electronic Health Records or EHRs. These incentives were established by federal law as a part of the HITECH Act of 2009,...

Dartmouth Cyber Security Chief: More Attention Needed To Human Element In Security

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger wrote the book on cyber security – or should we say “books.” The longtime researcher and expert has authored numerous textbooks on everything from software engineering, to the application of metrics in software development, to computer security. The head of research for th...

Economics of Vulnerability Research Still Skewed

By any measure, Luigi Auriemma is a prolific vulnerability researcher. In the first ten months of 2011, the pay-for-bugs program Zero Day Initiative credited Auriemma with discovering 30 vulnerabilities, ranging from issues in Sybase enterprise software to Adobe Shockwave to Apple Quicktime. In i...

House GOP Task Force Favors Private Incentives, Fewer Regulations for Cybersecurity

A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security. The GOP proposes a combination of tax credits, grants, insurance and rules set by non-regulatory agencies as a w...

An Interview With Telex's J. Alex Halderman

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo have developed a proxy system called Telex that provides a method for users to circumvent state-level censorship of the Web. It uses an architecture that includes a proxy at the ISP level and uses connections to...