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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 the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M 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.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. So while the operators are trying to recover, they're also dealing with the fact that all their systems are going down.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s pretty devastating in that it arrives through phishing or some other common attack vector, sits on your network for a period of time, and then encrypts your data such that the system is inoperable until you pay a ransom for the decryption key.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

ForAllSecure

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. These APTs have somehow found a way to bypass most security tools, hence their persistence. Stealth malware.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general.