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Speakers at Virus Bulletin painted grim pictures of the threats to physical safety and civil liberties posed by commercial spyware and high-end surveillance software often sold to governments. Continue reading Experts Have Sobering Message on Human Rights, Privacy for Security Pros
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: US indicts Russian BTC-e ‘mastermind’; Blu still phoning home; bug bounty offers $250k
As Black Hat USA is in full swing, Las Vegas buzzed with questions about the government’s process for disclosing newly discovered software vulnerabilities, even as the government is working to change the way the process works. At issue: What can fresh data examining zero days tell the public about whether the U.S. government secretly retains a new software vulnerability or reveals it to the manufacturer so it can be fixed. Retained vulnerabilities can be used to spy on U.S. adversaries, but — if rediscovered by foreign spies, cybercriminals or other hackers — they could also be used to wreak havoc on systems both inside and outside the U.S. “I’m gonna light it up,” cybersecurity researcher Katie Moussouris told CyberScoop about a planned debate on the subject. Because of the nature of the global software market — people and companies all over the world use the same programs — a high chance of rediscovery […]
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Security based on machine learning is only as great as the data it feeds on, as Sophos data scientist Hillary Sanders explains at Black Hat 2017 Continue reading Garbage in, garbage out: a cautionary tale about machine learning
At $400, the Philadelphia ransomware kit isn’t cheap – but crooks buying it will get a lot of bang for their buck, as we’ve discovered from digging in to how it works Continue reading Philadelphia RaaS: our map of how it works (and how to prevent it)
Dropping in to BSidesLV while you’re in Vegas? Come and see our data scientists talk about machine learning and the threats there – we’d love to say hi Continue reading BSidesLV: What’s on the agenda in Las Vegas
We’ll be at Black Hat with talks and a shirt giveaway if you give us the right passphrase – come and say hi; we’d love to see you Continue reading Black Hat USA 2017: what’s on the agenda in Las Vegas