The Death of the Security Checkbox: BAS Is the Power Behind Real Defense

Security doesn't fail at the point of breach. It fails at the point of impact. That line set the tone for this year's Picus Breach and Simulation BAS Summit , where researchers, practitioners, and CISOs all echoed the same theme: cyber defense is no longer about prediction. It's about proof. When...

Learn the latest cybersecurity techniques at the Microsoft Security Summit

In a world marked by change and uncertainty, innovation is more than a nice-to-have—it’s vital to any healthy organization. But fearless innovation becomes impossible when gaps in security can put those ideas at risk. Many organizations try to increase their defenses by piecing together a patchwo...

Learn the latest cybersecurity techniques at the Microsoft Security Summit

In a world marked by change and uncertainty, innovation is more than a nice-to-have—it’s vital to any healthy organization. But fearless innovation becomes impossible when gaps in security can put those ideas at risk. Many organizations try to increase their defenses by piecing together a patchwo...

Adapting Security to Work Anywhere

"Working from home 2021" was the title of my talk at The Cyber Security Summit in January, and the strikethrough is important...

IRS Security Summit Series for Tax Professionals: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

The fifth and final step in the Internal Revenue Service IRS Security Summit series for tax professionals is creating a data theft recovery plan. IRS issued a news release highlighting the importance of understanding the risks posed by national and international cybersecurity criminal syndicates,...

Beers with Talos Ep. #55: Live from San Diego!

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 55 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded June 12, 2019 — God knows why, but we bring you another live episode from the Talos Threat Research Summit at Cisco Live...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Data in Smarter Cities in New York City on October 23, 2018. I'm speaking at the Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 24, 2018. I'm speaking at ISF's 29th Annual World Congress in Las Vegas,...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm giving a book talk on Click Here to Kill Everybody at the Ford Foundation in New York City, on September 5, 2018. The Aspen Institute's Cybersecurity & Technology Program is holding a book launch for Click Here to Kill Everybod...

Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!

Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...

Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers

A years ago when the mysterious hacking group 'The Shadow Brokers' dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits. A group of Hungarian security researchers from CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi ha...

Look Out! Risk Is on the Move, According to IoT Thought Leaders from Across the Globe

The IoT Security Summit 2017 in New York City in late October and the Security of Things World USA 2017 in San Diego last month were both packed with thought leaders from all parts of the IoT ecosystem - device manufacturers, telecom carriers, cloud providers, and early-adopter end users from...

You've Got 0-Day!

Hey all, it feels like its been forever since I wrote a blog post that wasnt about some specific disaster currently consuming the Internet, so I just wanted to drop a note here about how Ill be speaking at UNITED 2017, Rapid7s annual security summit in Boston September 11-14. Specifically, Ill be...

IRS Warns Tax Professionals of New Scam to Steal Passwords

The Internal Revenue Service IRS, acting in concert with state tax agencies and the tax industry, has issued an IRS Security Summit Alert for tax professionals to beware of a new phishing email scam. Scam operators often use fraudulent e-mails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials...

IRS Launches 'Don't Take the Bait' Series

As part of its Security Summit effort, the Internal Revenue Service IRS will be launching a new educational series called "Don't Take the Bait" on July 11, 2017. As part of the "Protect Your Clients, Protect Yourself" campaign, this series will provide information about phishing scams targeting t...

Teach you how to use the exploit to ROOT an Android phone-bug warning-the black bar safety net

As mobile the rapid development of Internet, smart phones, tablet PCs and other intelligent terminal equipment gradually popular, and slowly integrated into our lives. However at the same time the smartphone security issues are also increasingly prominent, the mobile payment vulnerabilities, mobi...

HITB16 issues resolution: Java applications ORM injection the development of new methods-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! “Hack In The Box”conference is in Europe in Amsterdam, organized by the global well-known Security Summit. This year's conference very interesting, one by a security researcher Mikhail Egorov and Sergey Soldatov presented the topic“Java application ORM injection the development of new...

Apple killed the previous jailbreak also inadvertently fixes a new vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Apple some time ago released iOS 8.2 to fix the Tai Chi team in the 8.2 Beta 1/Beta 2 jailbreak which used the vulnerability, which is apples and Tai Chi teams are already confirmed. Tai Chi also reminded the majority of jailbreak users, currently for the iOS 8.2 jailbreak tools are still being...

First ever Malware for Firefox Mobile OS developed by Researcher

Firefox OS is a mobile operating system based on Linux and Mozilla’s Gecko technology, whose environment is dedicated to apps created with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After almost two years of development, a few months back Mozilla officially launched their Firefox OS devices in stores and no...

Kaspersky Cyber-Security Summit 2013

Kaspersky Lab convened a number of information security experts in New York City this week to discuss the effects of cyberespionage and targeted attacks on corporate America...

Chris Hoff, HacKid.org Leads UNITED Security Summit Award Winners

Chris Hoff, HacKid.org Leads UNITED Security Summit Award Winners Awards Recognize Outstanding Contributions to Propel the Information Security Industry Forward to Meet Future Challenges San Francisco, CA at the UNITED Security Summit – September 20, 2011 – The first annual UNITED Security Summit...