Everything thrown at the wall that seemed to stick Bloomberg accuses the PLA of hardware tampering supply chain attacks. If this is at all true, it is a pretty big deal. If it is completely false, it is still a pretty big deal (but thats between Bloomberg’s lawyers and SuperMicro, the company allegedly shipping the hacked […]
China and Vulnerability Research
Some Thoughts For the last few years Chinese vulnerability research teams have dominated the exploit competitions around the world. As I wrote before, this is because the major Chinese technology companies are in a battle for cybersecurity mindshare in the Chinese market. They use the CVE assignments, exploit competition wins and recognition from major software […]
Cyber Security Motivations Guessing Game
Can we determine what drives infosec and does it matter? There was a discussion on Twitter about what motivates media attention to infosec, and what does it reveal about the industry, countries, markets and players? This talk was sparked by @agelastic asking why media attention to APTs is so one sided via both volume (Western media) […]