Marty Meehan What do you do when the performance of the MPI program that distributes your work across many cores and nodes starts to level off? Like any good programmer, you enlist the help of your favorite performance profiler to understand what’s going on. You find that you are now network bound...
“InfoArmor concluded the Yahoo hackers were criminal after reviewing a small sample of compromised accounts, Andrew Komarov, the firm’s chief intelligence officer, said in an interview. The hackers, dubbed Group E, have a track record of selling stolen personal data on the dark web, and have bee...
“With information sharing, there are three key characteristics: volume (lots of indicators), velocity (speed of sharing), and validation. Unfortunately, you can only ever get two out of three. In this case, the NCCIC has heard from you that you want a lot of information from the government, and yo...
“Over the past month, voter registration databases in states across the United States have continued to come under cyberassault by hackers, FBI Director James Comey warned lawmakers today. ‘There have been a variety of scanning activities, which is a preamble for potential intrusion activities, ...
“In 2015, 113 million electronic health records were breached, a major leap over the 12.5 million the year before. In 2009, the number was less than 135,000. The number of reported hacks and breaches affecting records of at least 500 individuals rose from none in 2009 to 56 last year, Via OODA Loo...
“At Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Atlanta yesterday, the company announced the availability of a new cloud-based service for developers that will allow them to test application binaries for security flaws before they’re deployed. Called Project Springfield, the service uses ‘whitebox fuzz...
“Six years ago, Yahoo’s computer systems and customer email accounts were penetrated by Chinese military hackers. Google and a number of other technology companies were also hit.” Source: Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say – NYTimes.com Via OODA Loop...
“BIYSK, Russia — Living anonymously, down a winding road in the wilderness of western Siberia, not far from the Mongolian border, the only person so far implicated in the flurry of Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and other political sites was obviously enjoying the moment....