• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-10-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Stock-tanking in St. Jude Medical security disclosure might have legs

For better or worse, a security firm’s attempt to cash in on software bugs — by shorting a company’s stock and then publicizing the flaws — might have pioneered a new approach to vulnerability disclosure.Last August, security company MedSec revealed […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-09-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Russia: US fueling ‘witch hunt’ with election hacking claims

Russia dismissed an intel report claiming that the Kremlin meddled with the U.S. presidential election, saying the accusations were “amateurishly emotional” and driving a “witch-hunt.””There was nothing in this report that deserved to be read in detail,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-09-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Russia: US fueling ‘witch hunt’ with election hacking claims

Russia dismissed an intel report claiming that the Kremlin meddled with the U.S. presidential election, saying the accusations were “amateurishly emotional” and driving a “witch-hunt.”
“There was nothing in this report that deserved to be read in detail,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-09-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on This tool can help weed out hard-coded keys from software projects

A security researcher has developed a tool that can automatically detect sensitive access keys that have been hard-coded inside software projects.The Truffle Hog tool was created by U.S.-based researcher Dylan Ayrey and is written in Python. It sear... Read More