Security
The Bar Fight Risk Taxonomy
After hearing "vulnerability" and "threat" used interchangeably for a >9,000th time I decided to do something about it, and the Bar Fight Risk Taxonomy was born.
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My "office" setup — Part 2
This is a follow up from https://cje.io/2021/03/28/my-office-setup which is worth reading first if you haven't yet... Everything in Part 1 is still in play - Part 2 talks through some optimizations and a couple of additions.
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Bugcrowd at AusCERT2021
AusCERT 2021 was a hybrid conference this year, and one of the first Australian cybersecurity conferences to resume in real life after the onset of the COVID pandemic. I was there representing Bugcrowd across three (!) separate sessions.
Policy
The iOS FaceTime vulnerability: What it means and what you can do to protect yourself
Yesterday news broke that a bug in FaceTime that allows callers to listen to the audio of the person they are calling before that person picks up. Today we learned that it was a high school student in Tucson, Arizona that discovered the bug. Grant Thompson discovered the bug while
Policy
How Governments are Running Effective Bug Bounty Programs
If you’re reading this article, statistically speaking your organization might be getting hacked. In the private sector, the Equifax hack and Intel’s processor vulnerabilities took the mainstream media by storm. And over the past year, data breaches of U.S. government networks, once novel, have become pervasive. Take
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On disclosure, confidentiality, and norms…
A few weeks ago I was tagged by Art Manion of the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) in a tweet asking about Bugcrowd’s approach to disclosure policy defaults. The short version of the thread was concern about a statement in our product documentation that infers that Bugcrowd actively recommends
Policy
Election Security 2020: Don’t Let Disinformation Undermine Your Right to Vote
A tweet of a voting machine that “looks like” it’s infected by ransomware could be as effective at deterring voter turnout and confidence as the real deal, which is a cost-effective and asymmetric means to manipulate election results.
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Titan Talks — Ep 2 — Casey John Ellis with @thecybermentor
I've watched Heath's journey as a education and community powerhouse, and more recently as an entrepreneur with tcm-sec with much interest and respect. We covered a lot of ground about entrepreneurship, founder DNA, competition, priorities, and the cybers all around.
Security
On Project Zero's 90+30 vulnerability disclosure policy changes
Google is acknowledging the increasing prevalence of n-day exploitation in the wild, particularly over the past 18 months (e.g. the CISA/NSA memo) have taken their next step in refining how they strike balance between these forces.
Security
Security Research and Disclosure: The Unauthorized Biography — Nullcon March 2021
Title: Security Research and Disclosure: The Unauthorized Biography | Casey John Ellis | Nullcon Conference March 2021
Personal
My "office" setup
As WFH was going from novel to normal, the thought occurred to me that "virtual semiotics" was quickly going to become a thing... The equivalent of the how to dress, where to sit, how to speak type advice executives get taught, but for a world which is virtual by default.
Policy
NIST: Vulnerability Disclosure as a Requirement for Every Organization
What is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework? The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a set of policies meant to help the private sector in strengthening their cybersecurity readiness and awareness. The framework is published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the US Department of Commerce. Originally designed for