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Overview of @Triumfant by @SecureNinja @FedCyber 2013

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By Bob Gourley SecureNinjaTV’s Alicia Webb continues our coverage of FEDcyber 2013 by speaking with Triumfant’s President & CEO John Prisco about malware detection and remediation. Cyber Security Advanced Persistent Threat Alicia Webb FEDcyber 2013 John Prisco JSON-RPC Triumfant YouTube Zero-day attack'

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Calligrapher.ai is a website using the power of AI for handwriting generation

TechSpot

Years before OpenAI and other organizations started toying with AI to easily generate text, speech, artworks, malware, and videos, machine learning researcher Sean Vasquez was studying a 2013 paper by Google DeepMind's Alex Graves to create "handwriting synthesis" experiments.

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WikiLeaks: CIA used bits of Carberp Trojan code for malware deployment

Network World

When the source code to a suspected Russian-made malware leaked online in 2013, guess who used it? On Friday, WikiLeaks released 27 documents that allegedly detail how the CIA customized its malware for Windows systems. A new release from WikiLeaks claims the U.S.

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A series of patent lawsuits is challenging the history of malware detection

The Verge

Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology — and that the company’s competitors are infringing on intellectual property rights with their implementation of network security software.

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Security News: @Invincea Raises $16 Million in C-Series Funding Led by Aeris Capital and Dell Ventures

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FAIRFAX, VA–(Marketwired – Dec 16, 2013) – Invincea, Inc., FAIRFAX, VA–(Marketwired – Dec 16, 2013) – Invincea, Inc., Additionally, the company announced it acquired Sandboxie in an earlier 2013 transaction.

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Disk-wiping malware Shamoon targets virtual desktop infrastructure

Network World

The malware, known as Shamoon or Disttrack, is part of a family of destructive programs known as disk wipers. and in 2013 against several banks and broadcasting organizations in South Korea. Similar tools were used in 2014 against Sony Pictures Entertainment in the U.S.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M

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