Tag: flame
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VB2018 paper: Draw me like one of your French APTs – expanding our descriptive palette for cyber threat actors
IT security research stumbled into the world of nation-state intelligence operations more or less by accident. In a now classic VB2015 paper , Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade discussed this shift from security research to intelligence brokerage and what this implied. Juan Andres has been a regular speaker at the VB conference since then, and has given…
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VB2018 paper: Draw me like one of your French APTs – expanding our descriptive palette for cyber threat actors
IT security research stumbled into the world of nation-state intelligence operations more or less by accident. In a now classic VB2015 paper , Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade discussed this shift from security research to intelligence brokerage and what this implied. Juan Andres has been a regular speaker at the VB conference since then, and has given…
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How broken is SHA-1 really?
Earlier this month, I gave a talk entitled ” How Broken Is Our Crypto Really? ” at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. In the presentation, I looked at vulnerabilities found in cryptographic protocols and analysed the likeliness of these being exploited in practice. I spent a few minutes talking about SHA-1 and stated that…
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Flame worm one of the most complex threats ever discovered
Malware possibly used for cyber-espionage. The jury is out on whether ‘Flame’ (also known as ‘Flamer’ or ‘Skywiper’) is ‘the most lethal cyberweapon to date’ as some have claimed , or just a highly complex and sophisticated piece of malware. But simply from looking at the volume of security vendors’ blog posts dedicated to the…