Tag: bae systems
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Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria to deliver VB2019 closing keynote
We are very excited to announce that the closing keynote for VB2019 will be delivered by Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria of Thinkst , the company that was founded by Haroon and recently joined by Adrian. Haroon is a long-time researcher and public speaker, best known for his thought-provoking ideas on security research and the…
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Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria to deliver VB2019 closing keynote
We are very excited to announce that the closing keynote for VB2019 will be delivered by Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria of Thinkst , the company that was founded by Haroon and recently joined by Adrian. Haroon is a long-time researcher and public speaker, best known for his thought-provoking ideas on security research and the…
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VB2018 preview: Wipers in the wild
Some of the earliest computer viruses deleted data and sometimes even rendered computers unusable. But as malware increasingly became a tool used for criminal or (geo)political purposes, its focus shifted to stealing data and using the resources of the compromised machines. However, there has recently been a trend of APT campaigns including a ‘wiper’ functionality…
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VB2018 preview: Wipers in the wild
Some of the earliest computer viruses deleted data and sometimes even rendered computers unusable. But as malware increasingly became a tool used for criminal or (geo)political purposes, its focus shifted to stealing data and using the resources of the compromised machines. However, there has recently been a trend of APT campaigns including a ‘wiper’ functionality…
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‘Cyber attack on hedge fund’ turns out to be internal ‘scenario’ used by BAE Systems
Story that appeared to be taken from fiction turns out… to have been fiction. Two weeks after BAE Systems reported its technicians had thwarted an attack against hedge fund servers, the company has fessed up to the fact that this was not a real event, merely a ‘scenario’ used by experts within the company. The…