Black Hat

The company’s pen testing group jammed the new research and reconnaissance tools into SCMKit, an attack simulation toolkit unveiled at Black Hat.

As funding divvied to cyber startups continues to explode, founders face a new dilemma: When and from whom do they accept the millions of dollars?

Are supply chain attacks and software interdependence creating an existential crisis for the cybersecurity industry?

Though the FDA, device manufacturers, and health care providers all play a role in securing vulnerable devices, it’s providers and patients facing the brunt of the risk, according to a recent DEFCON Biohacking Village Talk.

Many IoT devices falter on random number generation, a key part of cryptography.

A bug in Amazon’s Kindle e-books, since patched, can allow an attacker to smuggle malware and gain root access to a victim’s device, steal tokens, steal or delete other sensitive data and even turn your internet-connected Kindle against your own network.

A research team from SafeBreach believe they, and any researchers who choose to adopt their method, can dramatically speed up the vulnerability disclosure process — faster than modern reversing methods and fuzzers currently allow.