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[TRANSCRIPT] Threat hunting in the age of work-from-home

Casey Ellis, the founder, chairman and CTO of Bugcrowd, told SC Media Senior Reporter Joe Uchill that there’s always going to be corporate infrastructure that provides information for a threat hunter, such as VPN, antivirus, and endpoint detection and response.

20 Aug 2021 · 2 min read
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IT Visionaries Podcast with Malcolm Harkness

On this roundtable episode of IT Visionaries, we explore the impact A.I. and technology are having on society and cybersecurity with Casey Ellis, the founder and CTO of Bugcrowd and Malcolm Harkins, a cybersecurity advisor, coach and board member.

06 Jul 2021 · 36 min read
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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.

26 Jun 2021 · 4 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Van Buren v. United States — Oral Argument

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Van Buren v. United States, a case concerning a statute of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and violations of terms of service agreements.

01 Dec 2020 · 41 min read
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Krebs Has A Posse

14 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
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Vulnerability annihilation since 1851

"What Hobbs had in mind was not the usual cajoling of a provincial bank into an upgrade, but exposing weaknesses in the British Empire itself by revealing the faults of one of Day and Newell’s competitors."

05 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
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Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty

Props to Matt Ploessel for calling out this one... I'd not heard of a bounty around nuclear weapons until today.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read
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Are you making a Walkman? Or an iPod?

When the walkman was introduced, it created a category. It's brand also became the term of description for that category.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read