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.
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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.
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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 October 2018 - A “critical water utility” was hit by a recent ransomware attack, significantly impeding the service in the week after Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast of the U.S. The Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (ONWASA) said in a Monday release that a “sophisticated ransomware attack 
16 October 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Oct. 16, 2018Cisco Talos just released the newest rule set for SNORTⓇ. In this release, we introduced 31 new rules, none of which are shared object rules. There are also 30 modified rules.This release provides coverage for a vulnerability in the M…
11 October 2018 - SNORTⓇ subscribers, as many of you may have noticed, we've been keeping Snort version releases around a lot longer over the past couple of years.We are currently working on revising our end of life (EOL) policy to take into account a mix of time and market share. Essentially, we will begin to shut…
11 October 2018 - Please join us as we welcome SNORTⓇ 2.9.12.0 to the family!Some release notes on this latest version:New AdditionsParsing HTTP CONNECT to extract the tunnel IP and port information.Alerting and dechunking for chunked encoding in HTTP1.0 request and response.ImprovementsFixed an issue where, if we…
11 October 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Oct. 11, 2018Today, Cisco Talso released the newest rule update for SNORTⓇ. In this release, we introduced 67 new rules, none of which are shared object rules. There are also four modified rules.This release contains coverage for several Adobe vul…
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..
