Building resilience for Government and Defence organisations in 2021

The past 12 months have been a challenging year for security professionals everywhere. But in particular for government and defence organisations battling the growing intensity and sophistication of cyber threats in a year heavily influenced by th… Continue reading Building resilience for Government and Defence organisations in 2021

Motor Controller Reverse Engineering Releases Smoke

It may have been designed for a sewing machine, but [Haris Andrianakis] found his imported DC brushed motor was more than up to the challenge of powering his mini lathe. Of course there’s always room for improvement, so he set …read more

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Does streaming a game from a dedicated gaming VM still expose my PCs to significant privacy/security concerns from installed games?

So the plan is to make a Windows 10 guest, give it lots of vCPUs and memory, perform GPU passthrough to achieve maximal performance, and then load my games onto this guest. The aim of this would be to stream the games over LAN to my PCs, t… Continue reading Does streaming a game from a dedicated gaming VM still expose my PCs to significant privacy/security concerns from installed games?

Would putting important information on a flash drive that never touches the internet be secure?

First off, I’m not even sure if this question belongs on this site, but I am a programmer and I usually just ask stack overflow questions like this, and I know for a fact this one doesn’t belong there.
But basically, my question is if I ge… Continue reading Would putting important information on a flash drive that never touches the internet be secure?

Menlo Security Named a Visionary in Gartner’s MQ for Secure Web Gateways Three Years in a Row

We believe the report validates customer migration from on-premises to the cloud and security functions’ convergence into a SWG platform architecture.
Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG) is now live, and Menlo Security has … Continue reading Menlo Security Named a Visionary in Gartner’s MQ for Secure Web Gateways Three Years in a Row

Is Malware Detection a Losing Race? A Deeper Look Into SoakSoak and Regin

Internet Isolation Enables a Zero Trust Approach That Protects Remote Users from Cybersecurity Threats without Impacting the User Experience.
Federal agencies are being forced to rethink the way they empower public servants with the tools and info… Continue reading Is Malware Detection a Losing Race? A Deeper Look Into SoakSoak and Regin

Linux: Can unprivileged users tamper with processes running under their own identity?

Having the following pseudocode executed by a superuser, is it safe to assume that it is secure on Linux?
if fork() == 0:
# drop privileges to an unprivileged user, let’s say "nobody"
# perform various tasks, start other pr… Continue reading Linux: Can unprivileged users tamper with processes running under their own identity?

It’s Time to Address the Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Cybersecurity warriors are in short supply these days. According to (ISC)2, 2.8 million professionals work in cybersecurity globally, but the industry would need another 4 million trained workers—500,000 in the U.S. alone—in order to properly defe… Continue reading It’s Time to Address the Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap