The new Cloudbleed vulnerability, like Heartbleed, was discovered through routine fuzz testing and may affect 5.5 million websites and millions of users.
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When it comes to software vulnerabilities, Dr. Jared DeMott knows his stuff. Formerly a vulnerability analyst with the National Security Agency (NSA), Dr. DeMott holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He has been on three winning DEF CON capture-the-flag (CTF) teams and talks about his vulnerability research at conferences like DerbyCon, Black Hat, ToorCon, GrrCON, and HITB. He is currently the co-founder of VDA Labs.
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Ticketbleed is a software vulnerability in a feature of the TLS/SSL stack that allows a remote attacker to extract sensitive information.
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Gary McGraw provided this year’s keynote address at Shmoocon, held January 13-15 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. His talk, Seven Things: Frank Zappa, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and 21 Years in Security” touches upon valuable insights gleaned over his more than 21 years in software security. It also reflects his many interests.
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Gamers, warring over turf, may have launched the Mirai botnet, according to research by Brian Krebs at Krebs on Security.
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Standards. Whether they are advisory or compulsory, standards developed for code development promote safety, quality, and security. This is especially important in life-critical industries such as automotive and medical. One example is MISRA C which provides software development guidelines for the C programming language.
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Two years after the vulnerability in OpenSSL known as Heartbleed there remain valuable lessons still to be learned both about how vulnerabilities are discovered and how the security community should respond.
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Two years after its disclosure, the vulnerability in OpenSSL known as Heartbleed remains significant. There are valuable lessons still to be learned both about how the vulnerability was initially discovered and how the security community has responded over time.
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A new family of ICS-focused malware, dubbed Irongate, interferes with industrial process running within a simulated Siemens control system environment.
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