Inside the cloud’s digital fortresses
Cloud anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is no stranger to the mysterious world of data center security, having studied the inner workings of the digital monoliths for years. Here’s what he found from visits in Iceland and the U.S.
Hacking in tongues: Malware authors shake up their programming languages
Malware creators are relying on relatively uncommon programming languages such as Rust, Go, and Swift — and not just because they’re sick of writing code in C. Defenders have been forced to keep up.
Why Finland won’t flinch from Russian cyberthreats
Finland offers a model of how a Western democracy can harden its vital industries against cyberattacks while resisting hybrid conflict and information operations, but can other countries follow suit?
From programmer to pwner: My zero-day journey to Pwn2Own
Security researcher Vera Mens and her colleagues on Claroty’s Team82 took on some of the toughest challenges in the industrial cybersecurity field at Pwn2Own Miami.
Steep costs, troubling questions roil DOD cybersecurity program rollout
About 80,000 companies that sell to the U.S. military will need to pass a cybersecurity audit before they can bid for business under rules the Defense Department plans to impose next year. But many small defense contractors aren’t prepared for the brave new world of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
From subversives to CEOs: How radical hackers built today’s cybersecurity industry
README adapted this article from a January 2022 report by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman.
Ghosts of Log4j: Open-source vulnerabilities confound software developers
Most of the code in typical applications comes from open-source projects, importing dozens — and often, hundreds — of components created by volunteers. As the Log4j incident shows, those deep dependencies can carry critical vulnerabilities.
Web3's security dilemma, AcidRain malware and a cyber defamation case
Welcome to Changelog for 4/3/22, published by Synack! I’m your host, Blake, and I can’t believe this is already edition №10.
Inside the Conti leaks rattling the cybercrime underground
Leaked internal message traffic makes the ruthless Conti ransomware gang look like any other struggling agile software startup — complete with millennial buzzwords and complaints about pay and working conditions.