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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

WPA3 is the newest protocol and offers better security features such as stronger encryption, protection against dictionary attacks, and easier setting of IoT devices, but has yet to become widely used. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is an improvement of WEP introduced in 2003. How Does Wireless Security Work?

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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

Security Affairs

The NSA has declined to speak in detail about the hack or EternalBlue. Imagine a large organization with a network infrastructure comprising multiple interconnected systems, including servers, workstations, and IoT devices. By Avast/Cybernews How would EternalBlue look in a real attack scenario?

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Episode 157: Do we need an FDA for Software? Also: operationalizing Threat Intelligence

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Unpacking Black Hat Hacks with Digicert CTO Dan Timpson Episode 156: Looming over Black Hat: doing Security at Massive Scale Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains in 15 Years. The Mirai Botnet caught the world’s attention back in 2016 as the first, high profile IoT botnet.

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Why ForAllSecure Is On MIT Technology Review's 2017 List Of Smartest Companies

ForAllSecure

This is what the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first machine-only hacking competition, sought to demonstrate to the world in 2016. The real life version in 2003 wreaked nearly a billion dollars in damage as it attacked over 75K servers before humans were able to update their systems.

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Why ForAllSecure Is On MIT Technology Review's 2017 List Of Smartest Companies

ForAllSecure

This is what the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first machine-only hacking competition, sought to demonstrate to the world in 2016. The real life version in 2003 wreaked nearly a billion dollars in damage as it attacked over 75K servers before humans were able to update their systems.

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WHY FORALLSECURE IS ON MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW’S 2017 LIST OF SMARTEST COMPANIES

ForAllSecure

This is what the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first machine-only hacking competition, sought to demonstrate to the world in 2016. The real life version in 2003 wreaked nearly a billion dollars in damage as it attacked over 75K servers before humans were able to update their systems.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Some of the earliest work we did dates back to 2003, when I was a graduate student. Of the 209 million tests, 2 million resulted in successful hacking of programs. The Mayhem concept was born in my research lab at Carnegie Mellon University, where we explored binary analysis, symbolic execution, and fuzzing. The only cost was Amazon.