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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.

16 May 2021 · 2 min read
Building

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.

10 May 2021 · 54 min read
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.

08 May 2021 · 4 min read
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

16 Apr 2021 · 31 min read
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.

28 Mar 2021 · 9 min read
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

08 Mar 2021 · 2 min read
Policy

Responsible Disclosure Programs with Katie Moussouris & Casey Ellis | 401 Access Denied Ep. 22

Katie Moussouris, Founder & CEO of Luta Security and Casey Ellis, Founder & CTO of Bugcrowd join Joe and Mike to talk all things responsibility disclosure – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

26 Feb 2021 · 59 min read
Policy

Establishing asset ownership in vulnerability reporting

The thing I see people get wrong most frequently in vulnerability reporting is being able to answer the question of ownership and "where to report my findings." Here are some practical tips for establishing ownership and thereby identifying the appropriate coordinator to contact.

22 Feb 2021 · 3 min read
Policy

Modes of Public Vulnerability Disclosure

A proposed taxonomy... Discovery, Documentation, Distribution.

20 Feb 2021 · 3 min read
Security

A thought re vulnerability research clustering

The fact that insecure software pipelines are exploitable feels a little like the idea that bugs exist in old F/OSS code, or that a chip design might not be 100% perfect. It's almost QED - but in the defensive realm, people weren't looking there.

10 Feb 2021 · 3 min read
Security

Help! My Social Media has been hacked!

I know you do security stuff with computers and my Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/etc has been hacked! It's posting all kinds of strange stuff that isn't from me. What do I do to stop this???

11 Jan 2021 · 7 min read
Personal

Outrage is cheap

Outrage is cheap and of fleeting value. Introspection and change are expensive, precious, and resilient... and very easy to miss if everything is the other guy’s fault.

09 Jan 2021 · 2 min read