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Briefing

Chinese cyberespionage campaign. Rootkit masquerades as VPN. Leaky Firebase apps. Kardon Loader in beta. EU copyright law.

Supported by CyberSecJobs.

Podcast

Satellite communications suffer from Thrip(s). Zacinlo rootkit poses as a VPN. Insecure Firebase apps. EU copyright legislation. Kardon Loader. Bithumb robbed. #Opicarus2018. Bitcoin Baron jailed.

Supported by ThreatConnect and VMware.

Podcast

In this episode we discuss scammers taking advantage of natural disasters, romance scams, and a strange voice mail. Stephen Frank from the National Hockey League Players Association joins us to share how professional athletes protect themselves from online scams.

Supported by KnowBe4

Podcast

In this episode of the Recorded Future podcast, we examine how threat intelligence applies to a variety of roles within an organization, and how security professionals can integrate it to empower their team to operate with greater speed and efficiency.

Podcast

Cyber bank heists — Research Saturday

Supported by Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative and Enveil

Briefing

Summitry and sanctions. Speculative execution bug. Baba Yaga malware. Wiper misdirection. DoJ IG reports. Industry notes.

Supported by Wombat, Cybric, and Authentic8, Sandfly Security, Cybrary.

Alexei Bulazel — Inside MpEngine.dll: Reverse Engineering Windows Defender's JavaScript Engine

Andrew Lamoureux — It's Alive! Evolving assemblers using disassembler oracles

Mario Vuksan — File Reversing and Malware Hunting: The art and science of file reputation from NotPetya to Triton

Patrick Wardle — Synthetic Reality; Breaking macOS One Click at a Time

A CISO's perspective on defending a large enterprise

Keynote: Games of inches and games of miles

RSA: Cyber conflict and cyber restraint.

RSA: Innovation Sandbox

Podcast

Vince Peeler, manager of cyber intelligence services at Optum, shares his thoughts on the intelligence cycle and the role it can play in organizing and focusing the efforts of cybersecurity teams.

Briefing

The leaders of North and South Korea, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, met in the treaty village of Panmunjom along the demarcation line between the two states. As has been widely noted, the meeting represented a historic first, the only time a North Korean leader has visited the South since partition...

Podcast

Just before the RSA conference this year, we spoke with a pair of industry experts for their take on the year so far, and what they expect to see in the coming months. In this CyberWire special edition, we hear from Craig Williams, Director of Talos Outreach at Cisco, and later in the show from Jon Rooney, Vice President of Product marketing at Splunk.

Supported by Cylance

Event

The CyberWire is pleased to present the 5th Annual Women in Cyber Security Reception on Thursday, October 18, 2018, in Washington, DC.

Video

This talk will present a novel application of a machine learning model and a corresponding tool, asm2vec, for vulnerability discovery. Treating both program disassembly as a natural language, we construct embeddings of identifiers at scale using a concept similar to word2vec, in which the output is a vector of related identifiers and their proximity.

Video

It is a period of cyber war. In an effort to sustain commerce during these challenging times, the Galactic Trade Federation has required that the Empire retain the services of a consultancy on Kessel (a best-value provider, and only twelve parsecs away) to assess the state of their security before signing...

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