3 #Infosec Things I Am Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a great time to eat, drink and reflect on the previous year. This year I am thankful for: Innovation. This is often overstated and has become a dirty buzzword, but I believe innovation in the space has driven solutions that are providing defenders a huge amount of value. From...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2018

Download the Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2018 Introduction As hard as it is to believe, it's once again time for our APT Predictions. Looking back at a year like 2017 brings the internal conflict of being a security researcher into full view: on the one hand, each new even...

North Korea’s Most Powerful Weapon (Hint: It’s Not a Nuclear Arsenal)

With all the talk associated with North Korea’s prospects of launching a nuclear attack, there is often an overlooked, existential threat that continues to fly under the radar - cyberattacks. In truth, North Korea’s cyber warfare operations pose a much greater risk to the West than the prospect o...

Russian Propaganda Talks on Capitol Hill Thrust Cyber Espionage into the Public Eye

Leading tech executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony as senators from both sides of the aisle took the companies to task for allegedly failing to defuse Russia's attempt to sway American voters ahead of the 2016 presidentia...

Nuclear War Isn’t North Korea’s Only Threat

Editor's Note: This opinion piece originally appeared on CNN.com North Korea has launched 22 missiles in 15 tests in 2017. According to US intelligence sources, the most recent test detonated a 140-kiloton nuclear device, which the North Koreans claim was a hydrogen bomb. That's 10 times as...

The Equifax Breach from a Geo Political Perspective

The Equifax breach stole names, addresses, birth dates, and credit card numbers for over 200,000 consumers. One might immediately assume that cyber criminals made the attack in order to sell the information to identity thieves who will run up fraudulent charges, file fake tax returns, defraud...

Attacking Critical Infrastructure: The Evolution Of Kinetic Warfare

I said earlier in 2017 I believed it was quite possible that during the year a major cyberattack will occur in either the United States, the United Kingdom, or another friendly country that will require a response equivalent to a kinetic attack. In other words, a cyberattack will occur that will ...

August 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Mount Vesuvius” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Attacking Critical...

Talos Targets Disinformation with Fake News Challenge Victory

This post was authored by Sean Baird with contributions by Doug Sibley and Yuxi PanExecutive SummaryFor the past several months, the problem of “fake news” has been abuzz in news headlines, tweets, and social media posts across the web. With historical roots in information warfare and...

Setting Expectations Between States on Cyberwar

A a panel of security experts at the RSA Conference on Wednesday said there is a lack of agreement on a definition of cyberwarfare and of the tools used to fight them. “Words matter and it’s important to have definitions. But one of the challenges is the pace of innovation gets in front of doctri...

Solar Warfare - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Solar Warfare published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Toy Warfare - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Toy Warfare published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Red Warfare: Let's Fire! - Dangerous filesystem permissions, Insecure KeyStore vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Red Warfare: Let's Fire! published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Lt Gen David Deptula on Desert Storm and Islamic State

This weekend Vago Muradian interviewed Lt Gen ret David Deptula, most famous for his involvement as a key planner for the Desert Storm air campaign. I recommend watching the entire video, which is less than 8 minutes long. Three aspects caught my attention. I will share them here. First, Lt Gen...

2014-2015 Professional Reading Round-Up

At an earlier point in my career, I used to read a lot of technical security books. From 2006 to 2012 I published a series of Best Book Bejtlich Read posts. Beginning in 2013 I became much more interested in military-derived strategy and history, dating back to my studies at the Air Force Academy...

Domain Creep? Maybe Not.

I just read a very interesting article by Sydney Freedberg titled DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain. That basically summarizes what you need to know, but here's a bit more from the article: Pentagon officials are drafting new policy that would officially recognize the...

Anonymous Hacking Group Takes Down 20,000 ISIS Twitter accounts

In the wake of horrific terror attacks in Paris, the online Hacktivist group Anonymous last week declared "total war" against the Islamic State militant group ISIS that claimed responsibility for the attacks. While French, Russian, and US military are bombing ISIS from the sky, Anonymous members...

For the PLA, Cyber War is the Battle of Triangle Hill

In June 2011 I wrote a blog post with the ever polite title China's View Is More Important Than Yours. I was frustrated with the Western-centric, inward-focused view of many commentators, which put themselves at the center of debates over digital conflict, neglecting the possibility that other...

Super cannon Great Cannon）defect inquiry of JS bloomer-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Following the last post in the black bar to secure the article on the super cannon Great Cannon）defect inquiry of TTL article, we reference from abroad, a research organization for the event post-mortem analysis, as well as by being an attack site log and capture the code on a bloomer, locking Th...

China Finally Admits It Has Army of Hackers

China finally admits it has special cyber warfare units — and a lot of them. From years China has been suspected by U.S. and many other countries for carrying out several high-profile cyber attacks, but every time the country strongly denied the claims. However, for the first time the country has...