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Week in review: Threat modeling, blockchain and security, new issue of (IN)SECURE
2018-06-24 23:16

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Cisco plugs critical flaws in many switches, security appliances Cisco has released security updates to address a...

Threat modeling: What’s all the buzz about?
2018-06-21 12:00

Keen observers will have noted an uptick in activity around threat modeling within the information security community recently with new tools being released and strategies and methodologies being...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Modeling Reaper
2017-12-13 17:37

What a timely way to end this series on Threat Modeling the Internet of Things (IoT). An advanced thingbot, nicknamed Reaper (or IoTroop), was recently discovered infecting hordes of IoT devices....

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Part 4 - Weak Authentication
2017-10-04 12:20

For the first time, one of the largest cyber security conferences in the ASEAN region, the Singapore Internet CyberSecurity Week (SICW), had a track devoted just to the Internet of Things. One...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Part 3 - A Real World Example (Security Week)
2017-08-01 11:18

One of the most bizarre beginnings in movie history involved a young Paul Newman decapitating a streetful of Duncan Model 50 parking meters in the existential-hero classic, “Cool Hand Luke.” Those...

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things Part 2: Three Steps to Pizza (Security Week)
2017-06-07 17:16

Part 1 of this series posited that the Internet of Things (IoT) needs a more rigorous security application than it currently has, lest we end up building another patchy, vulnerability-ridden...

Rapid7 brings its advisory services to EMEA, introduces threat modeling (Help Net Security)
2015-06-03 09:09

At Infosecurity Europe 2015 Rapid7 announced it will offer its Strategic Advisory Services in EMEA to help security executives and teams solve pressing cyber security challenges. The practice, which l...