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ForAllSecure announced it has raised $21 million in a series B funding round co-led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). This financing brings the company’s total funding to $36 million. For… Continue reading ForAllSecure raises $21 million to secure open source projects used by businesses around the world
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-7982) discovered in the package manager of the OpenWRT open source operating system could allow attackers to compromise the embedded and networking devices running it. About OpenWRT OpenWRT is an open source, Linux-based opera… Continue reading Millions of routers running OpenWRT vulnerable to attack
RSA Conference announced the 10 finalists for its Innovation Sandbox Contest 2020. The competition calls on the most promising young companies in cybersecurity to showcase their transformative technologies to a panel of judges and live audience at RSA … Continue reading RSA Conference announces finalists for Innovation Sandbox Contest 2020
Flaws in Das U-Boot affect third-party hardware that uses the universal bootloader as an underlying component. Continue reading Amazon Kindle, Embedded Devices Open to Code-Execution
Dr. David Brumley, CEO of ForAllSecure, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor (on leave), and part of the team that won the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, was, at one time, a dishwasher and a line chef. That was before going back to get his high s… Continue reading CISO priorities: Implementing security from the get-go
After witnessing the raw power of a machine that can fix its own software security flaws at DEF CON 24 more than one year ago, the Pentagon has officially purchased the revolutionary technology from a small, Pittsburgh-based firm. The makers of a supercomputer designed to automatically detect, patch and exploit existing software vulnerabilities were recently awarded a seven-figure contract from the Department of Defense to apply the cutting-edge technology to military systems, including U.S. Navy ships and aircraft. The Pentagon’s startup-centric office, named the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), is currently overseeing the venture. The two-year contract is part of a program dubbed “Voltron,” which will offer the technology to a variety of different defense agencies in an effort to find coding flaws in both operating systems and custom programs used by the U.S. military. Voltron represents a multi-contract effort — which includes but is not limited to the aforementioned […]
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