Black Hat 2015 Analysis: An Island in the Desert
Cyber LegislationNational Security This year’s Black Hat broke records yet again with the highest levels of attendance, including highest number of countries represented and, based on the size of the...
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NLP for Security: Malicious Language Processing
Data Science Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a diverse field in computer science dedicated to automatically parsing and processing human language. NLP has been used to perform authorship...
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Hunting for Honeypot Attackers: A Data Scientist’s Adventure
Data ScienceMalware This year’s Pwnie Award goes to ... OPM! The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (known as OPM) won the “Most Epic Fail” award at the 2015 Black Hat Conference for the worst known...
View ArticleThree Questions: Smart Sanctions and The Economics of Cyber Deterrence
National Security The concept of deterrence consistently fails to travel well to the cyber realm. One (among the many) reasons is that, although nuclear deterrence is achieved through nuclear means,...
View ArticleA Keynesian Approach to Information Freedom
National Security A free and open Internet is the cornerstone of net neutrality, advocated by civil liberties groups and the US government alike. A wide range of actors have taken this concept to the...
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Meet Endgame at AWS re:Invent 2015
See how we automate the hunt for cyber adversaries.Stop by Booth #1329 to:See a Demo of Endgame ProductsSign up here for a private demo to learn how we detect attacks that: Use native tools to...
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MinHash vs. Bitwise Set Hashing: Jaccard Similarity Showdown
Data Science As demonstrated in an earlier post, establishing relationships (between files, executable behaviors, or network packets, for example) is a key objective of researchers when automating the...
View ArticleWebinar: Automating the Hunt for Network Intruders
As adversaries - whether criminal or otherwise - make use of increasingly sophisticated attack methods, network defenses have not kept pace; they remain focused on signature-based, reactive measures...
View ArticleEmpty Promises, Broken Memes: Why Skepticism Should Prevail When It Comes to...
National Security Last week’s understanding reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama highlighted the attempt to mitigate the growing tension between the countries over...
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To Patch or Not to Patch? The Story of a Malicious Update
Vulnerability Research While it’s unlikely that Shakespeare had patching in mind when he penned “to be or not to be”, I started thinking about this seemingly simple question the other day when I heard...
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The State of the State: Tech & Data Science
Data Science A few years ago Jeff Hammerbacher famously claimed that, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” This seems to have only marginally changed...
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Adobe Flash Vulnerability CVE-2015-7663 and Mitigating Exploits
Vulnerability Research Today Adobe released a patch for CVE-2015-7663[1] that addresses a vulnerability we discovered in Flash Player. The vulnerability exists due to the improper tracking of freed...
View ArticleBeyond Privacy: Trans-Pacific Partnership & Its Potential Impact on the Cyber...
Cyber AlliancesCyber Legislation For months, there has been sharp criticism of the secret negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is on track to becoming the world’s largest...
View ArticleMay the Source Be With You: 4 Implications of China’s Latest Stance on the...
National Security According to the Chinese state-run Xinhua news, the OPM breach, “turned out to be a criminal case rather than a state-sponsored cyber attack as the U.S. previously suspected.”...
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Why Banning Tor Won’t Solve France’s National Security Problem
Cyber IntelligenceCyber LegislationBy Andrew Morris and Andrea Little Limbago Throughout the second half of this year, there has been much heated debate about proposed changes to the Wassenaar...
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Jamie Butler Cigital Podcast: On Security Research, Thinking Like a Hacker,...
Data ScienceBy: Margot KoehlerToday, Gary McGraw of Cigital spoke with our CTO Jamie Butler about Endgame's security research, thinking like an adversary, and his specialization in rootkit development....
View ArticleA New Year, A New Normal: Our Top Cybersecurity Predictions for 2016
Cyber Intelligence Each of the last several years has been dubbed the “year of the breach,” or more creatively the “year of the mega-breach.” But instead of continuing this trend and calling 2016 the...
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How Banks' Spending on Cybersecurity Ranks If They Were Small Countries
Image: Maddie King Last week, our team predicted the biggest cybersecurity trends in the new year – specifically, that as attacks grow in complexity and sophistication, breaches will be the new...
View ArticleEndgame Crushes the Industry Average for Gender Diversity
Women in TechnologyIn the State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama highlighted the important contributions of women in science and technology fields. Unfortunately, the tech industry on...
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Endgame Participates in Tough Mudder Benefitting Wounded Warrior Project
On April 20, over thirty Endgame employees, family members and friends participated in the Mid-Atlantic Spring 2013 Tough Mudder, supporting the Wounded Warrior Project. Funds raised for the Wounded...
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