Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
A 14-year-old hacker bricked at least 4,000 Internet of Things devices with a new strain of malware called Silex this week. Threatpost talks to the researcher who discovered the malware.
Newsmaker Interviews
Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on Physical Cyber Threats
Bruce Schneier discusses the clash between critical infrastructure and cyber threats.
Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends
MikroTik, Hadoop clusters, legislation and more will mark the botnet space in 2019.
In this Newsmaker Interview, ‘breach hunter’ Chris Vickery explores a recent spate of breaches from Marriott, USPS and Dell EMC.
The bug bounty “queen” Katie Moussouris discusses the biggest mistakes that companies launching these programs are making.
Concerns over midterm election tampering reach a boiling point in the days leading up to actual voting.
Botnets fused with artificial intelligence are decentralized and self-organized systems, capable of working together toward a common goal – attacking networks.
Criminals have found a mischievous way to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Troy Mursch sounds off on why this tricky trend isn’t going away anytime soon.
Noted cryptographer waxes on the threats posed by physical cyber systems, ‘going dark’ and a crypto arms race.
Threatpost sat down with Helme to discuss the state of web security, including certificate transparency, HTTPS deployment, Let’s Encrypt, content security policy and HTTP strict transport security.
