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Twitter Bio:: Husband & father. Chief Security Officer, MANDIANT. TaoSecurity blogger. Author. Retired Black Hat instructor.
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SEC Guidance on Cyber-Disclosure Becomes Rule for Google

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Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines on when companies should disclose cyber-attacks have become de facto rules for at least six companies, including Google Inc. and Amazon (AMZN).com Inc., agency letters show.

The six companies were asked to break silence and tell investors in future filings that intruders had breached their computer systems, according to the SEC letters. Companies such as Amazon argued that the attacks werenât important enough to reveal.

In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are A Hot Commodity : NPR

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An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sept. 29, 2011.An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sept. 29, 2011.There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons development.In the past, security researchers who stumbled on a software flaw would typically report the flaw to the manufacturer of the software, so it could be fixed. That changed, however, when

Trojan uses anti-spam system to keep in touch with C&C servers

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Posted on 25 January 2013. | Here's advice on what users should do to minimize the danger to themselves and others if they have fallen for these scams, and what they can do to stop falling for similar ones in the future.Posted on 24 January 2013. | The backdoor accounts are present on in Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, Link Balancer, Load Balancer, and SSL VPN appliances.Posted on 23 January 2013. | Augmented Reality is not the stuff of science fiction any more, and we should all be at least familiar with its current and likely future uses. This book aims to be an easy-to-digest

Iran Confirms Attack by New Virus

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TEHRAN — The computers of high-ranking Iranian officials appear to have been penetrated by a data mining virus called Flame, in what may be the most destructive cyber attack on Iran since the notorious Stuxnet virus, an Iranian cyber defense organization

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