The Cavalry is a global grassroots organization that is focused on issues where computer security intersects public safety and human life. We strive to ensure that these technologies are worthy of the trust we place in them.
Media and Research Requests
For journalists of all media, please use my PGP key for e-mail communications. Most requests I receive are for validating claims of major security events or vulnerabilities.
About one out of every five events I examine turn out to be fully or partially true. Our little community is increasingly becoming filled with rotten apples.
There is also an assumption of anonymity on my part, with exceptions only in very specific and authorized situations.
For research discoveries and disclosure, I already have a trusted list of journalists. For individuals and groups looking to include me in their efforts, please communicate using my PGP key listed above. Do your due dilligence first. I get a lot of requests and vetting what is legitimate is time consuming..
17 August 2018 - The unpatched flaw would allow a bad actor to execute information-exfiltrating malware, backdoors, ransomware or any other kind of bad code he or she chose.
17 August 2018 - The issue impacts several content management systems, including Typo3 and WordPress, as well as widely-used PDF generation library TCPDF.
17 August 2018 - Cryptocurrency angel investor Michael Terpin seeks damages for "gross negligence" by the carrier, alleging it turned a blind eye to store employees' malicious activities.
17 August 2018 - An analysis of the world's most-visited websites shows that vulnerable software, too much active content and large amounts of code execution open visitors to a raft of potential dangers.
16 August 2018 - An update has been released today for the Snort OpenAppID Detector content. This release, build 303, includesA total of 2,828 detectors. It also includes some additional detectors that came in from the open source community. For more details on which contributions were included, we have added t…
16 August 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Aug. 16, 2018The newest rule release from Talos was released this morning. In this release, we introduced 47 new rules. Of those, three are shared object rules and made modifications to five additional rules, none of which are shared object rul…
14 August 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/14/2018We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 55 new rules of which 6 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 10 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules. There were n…
13 August 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/09/2018We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 16 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 11 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules. There were n…
For research discoveries and disclosure, I already have a trusted list of journalists. For individuals and groups looking to include me in their efforts, please communicate using my PGP key listed above. Do your due dilligence first. I get a lot of requests and vetting what is legitimate is time consuming..
