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Vulnerability research and responsible disclosure: Advice from an industry veteran

“Everything changes once you have to supervise and mentor and schedule and coordinate and keep in mind all the things others don’t. You often have to hold back your own …

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Diffy: A triage tool for cloud-centric incident response

The Netflix Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has released Diffy, an open source triage tool that allows digital forensics and incident response teams to quickly …

Cisco
Cisco plugs serious flaws in Policy Suite, SD-WAN, and Nexus switches

Cisco has issued another batch of fixes, plugging a number of critical and high severity holes in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, and Nexus products. Cisco Policy Suite Users of the …

BEC scams
BEC scams and real estate deals: How to protect yourself?

Despite constant warnings by law enforcement and industry organizations, BEC scammers continue to fleece companies. They target small, medium, and large business and personal …

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Microsoft offers bug bounties for holes in its identity services

Microsoft is asking security researchers to look for and report technical vulnerabilities affecting its identity services and OpenID standards implementations, and is offering …

Microsoft impersonate
Microsoft tops list of brands impersonated by phishers

The number one brand spoofed by phishers in Q2 2018 in North America was Microsoft, says email security company Vade Secure. The company credits the surging of adoption of …

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Do you have what it takes to become a Chief Scientist in the infosec industry?

Igor Baikalov, Chief Scientist at security analytics firm Securonix, is a trained scientist: he spent over 16 year working on various aspects of Structural Biology, developing …

GitHub
GitHub adds Python support for security alerts

GitHub has announced that its recently introduced feature for alerting developers about known vulnerabilities in software packages that their projects depend on will now also …

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Rain Capital: Venture fund seeks to back cybersecurity companies led by women and minorities

A new venture fund that will focus on providing capital, strategy, critical resources and unique insights to early-stage cybersecurity companies in Silicon Valley has been …

Google Chrome
Chrome users get Site Isolation by default to ward off Spectre attacks

Site Isolation, the optional security feature added to Chrome 63 late last year to serve as protection against Spectre information disclosure attacks, has been enabled by …

Gargoyle
Gargoyle: Innovative solution for preventing insider attacks

A group of researchers from UNSW Sydney, Macquarie University, and Purdue University has released a paper on a new and very promising network-based solution for preventing …

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Threats financial organizations will face in 2019

What type of threats will financial services and banking organizations face in 2019? According to IntSights Cyber Intelligence, they should be prepared for breaches effected …

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