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..
21 July 2017 - A shift in APT tactics is emerging as characterized by the destructive ExPetr attacks hidden in ransomware, and WannaCry, which also failed to turn a profit.
20 July 2017 - Apple released iOS 10.3.3 Wednesday that serves as a cumulative patch update for multiple vulnerabilities including the high-profile BroadPwn bug.
20 July 2017 - U.S. authorities along with law enforcement Europe and Asia announced today the takedown of the dark web’s largest illicit market, AlphaBay.
20 July 2017 - The Tor Project is launching a public bug bounty program to encourage security researchers to responsibly report issues they find in the software.
20 July 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 07/20/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 48 new rules of which 4 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 28 additional rules. There were no changes made to the snort.co…
18 July 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 07/18/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 35 new rules and made modifications to 29 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules. There were no changes made to the snort.co…
17 July 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 07/13/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 28 new rules of which 5 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 18 additional rules of which 3 are Shared Object rules. There were n…
13 July 2017 - Pushed build 237 to github (snortadmin/snort3):build: add support for appending EXTRABUILD to the BUILD stringbuild: clean up some ICC 2017 warningsbuild: clean up some GCC 7 warningsbuild: support OpenSSL 1.1.0 APIbuild: clean up some cppcheck warningsappid: port some missing 2.9.X FEAT_OPEN_APPID…
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..
