Security firm Area 1 just landed $8 million in its first round of funding, which Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led.
The company focuses on early stage attacks. Its products prevent waterhole and phishing strikes, pesky exploits where an attacker pretends to be a trusted source to get credentials and other sensitive information often via email, websites, and other platforms. But that’s just the start. Hackers who launch phishing attacks are usually just at the beginning of a long destructive campaign on enterprise networks.
Last Wednesday a serious software vulnerability called Shellshock was reported; the bug could be exploited to compromise millions of servers and other devices worldwide. We still don’t know how wide and costly the problem will be, but we already know that Shellshock is more serious than the Heartbleed vulnerability that received wide attention back in April.
Former British spy Andrew France has emerged from the shadows and wants to crawl inside your network.
His firm, Darktrace, has a novel virtual security solution based on Bayesian probability theory, a complex mathematical concept developed at Cambridge University two and a half centuries ago.
France, a no-nonsense Englishman, recently left Britain’s spy agency, GCHQ, after a distinguished 30-year career. He was the agency’s deputy director for cyber defense operations. That gave him a ringside seat to the most complex and deadly hack attacks on the planet. He’s now the chief executive of Darktrace.
The Life Tech jacket from Seymourpowell is designed to double as an extreme survival kit that uses smart tech to help wearers in a variety of dangerous situations.
Like some giant Darwinian experiment, mobile threats are evolving differently by country – but, according to a new report from mobile security firm Lookout, the biggest risk factor is user behavior.
The report, “Mobile Threats, Made to Measure,” is based on data from 50 million Lookout users last year. It points to country-based specialization for chargeware, malware, and adware, as developers modify their strategies for different threat environments.
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography protecting our sensitive data: trickery.
