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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

The Last Watchdog

Log4J, aka Log4Shell, refers to a gaping vulnerability that exists in an open-source logging library that’s deeply embedded within servers and applications all across the public Internet. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. These are issues that are coming into play in all other major OSs, as well as at the processing chip level of computer hardware.

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DevOps Chat Podcast: $2M DARPA Award Sparks Behavior Testing With ForAllSecure's Mayhem Solution

ForAllSecure

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.

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Building the Relationship Between RM and IT

The Texas Record

They respected my knowledge of government RIM and treated me as an asset instead of a burden. Our programmers invite me to meetings involving any new system with a data retention consideration. Although, we had requested the Information Governance Initiative for FY18. It was never an adversarial relationship.

IT 60
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DevOps Chat Podcast: $2M DARPA Award Sparks Behavior Testing With ForAllSecure's Mayhem Solution

ForAllSecure

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.

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DEVOPS CHAT PODCAST: $2M DARPA AWARD SPARKS BEHAVIOR TESTING WITH FORALLSECURE'S MAYHEM SOLUTION

ForAllSecure

Are you working with a particular private sector, government sector? Sounds like something that might be interesting to the government side of things, too. We won that and that gave us our first $2 million, so that was, like, seed funding from the government. You’ve stepped out of CMU to set up this company, ForAllSecure.