At DEF CON, EFF security researcher Cooper Quintin discussed a mysterious group called Dark Caracal that has proven effective despite making many mistakes.
U.S. cyber board’s Lapsus$ postmortem, CPU vulns and remembering Vim’s creator
Welcome to Changelog for 8/6/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here with the week’s security news. Yes, README will be covering Black Hat and DEF CON later this week, so stay tuned for highlights from Hacker Summer Camp.
Welcome to Changelog for 7/30/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, still parsing the New York Times’ blockbuster report Saturday citing intelligence that China “has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world.”
Welcome to Changelog for 7/23/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, braving ongoing thunderstorms throughout upstate New York to bring you the week’s most noteworthy goings-on in cybersecurity.
VPNs, virtualization hosts, secure email gateways and other network “edge” devices have become a common entry point for attackers in significant enterprise breaches. How can defenders respond?
Welcome to Changelog for 7/16/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, signing in from upstate New York. README was onsite at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in National Harbor, Md., where editor-in-chief Blake Sobczak picked up the conference highlights from the two-day annual conference.
Concerns about China and generative AI dominated the cybersecurity discussions at the tenth edition of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s annual gathering, which drew hundreds of security professionals, spies and government experts.
Welcome to Changelog for 7/9/23, published by Synack! Nathaniel Mott here, hoping we can all finally catch a break from the big East Coast heat wave last week.