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Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised?

eSecurity Planet

Whether it’s studying the performance of your direct competitors, using predictive analytics to determine what the future may hold for your industry, or analyzing employee performance and making optimization decisions based on that information, the entire point is to take data in and use it to make better-informed decisions.

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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Schneier on Security

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. We need public-interest technologists.

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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Schneier on Security

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. We need public-interest technologists.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

While the various charging documents released in this case do not mention it per se, it is clear that members of this group also favored another form of supply chain attacks — hiding their malware inside commercial tools they created and advertised as legitimate security software and PC utilities. Security analysts and U.S. Image: DOJ.

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Chinese tax software bundled with GoldenSpy backdoor targets western companies

Security Affairs

In October 2016, Chenkuo Technology announced a partnership with Aisino for “big data cooperation. The two companies recently opened offices in China, they are a UK-based technology vendor and a major financial institution. ” The backdoor is digitally signed by a company named Chenkuo Network Technology.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

Security Affairs

During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems. I met Palantir Technologies where I was introduced to the Intelligence Ecosystem. Pierluigi Paganini.

Malware 101
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Gulf countries came under hackers’ spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised

Security Affairs

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