Scary Beasts Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

One of my side projects is as an adviser and panelist for the non-profit Internet Bug Bounty (IBB). We recently added Adobe Flash Player as in scope for rewards. Earlier today, David Rude collected $10,000 for a vulnerability recently fixed in APSB13-28. My thoughts on this are too long to fit into a tweet, so I summarize them here: This shows that the IBB is serious about rewarding research which makes us all safer. $10,000 is a respectable reward by modern bug bounty program standards.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

One of our goals when developing Kali Linux was to provide multiple metapackages that would allow us to easily install subsets of tools based on their particular needs. Until recently, we only had a handful of these meta packages but we have since expanded the metapackage list to include far more options: kali-linux kali-linux-all kali-linux-forensic kali-linux-full kali-linux-gpu kali-linux-pwtools kali-linux-rfid kali-linux-sdr kali-linux-top10 kali-linux-voip kali-linux-web kali-linux-wireles

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of the most interesting and important developments in retail privacy cases is a recent unpublished decision, Capp v. Nordstrom. […].

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Last week, the FTC announced that it had settled with a gaming company that falsely claimed to be certified under […].

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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