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..
20 April 2018 - Threatpost's Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about his discoveries this week at the RSA Conference.
20 April 2018 - Can bug bounty programs be designed to protect consumer privacy and how do programs balance white hat disclosure versus companies sitting on vulnerabilities until they are fixed?
19 April 2018 - Private intelligence gathering firm LocalBlox leaked data on 48 million users that was scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and other sites.
12 April 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 04/12/2018We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 33 new rules of which 5 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 1 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules. There were no…
12 April 2018 - We are currently accepting submissions for our 2018 Snort Scholarship award!This year we will be awarding $10,000 to two individuals pursuing a higher education degree that meets our eligibility criteria. To be eligible to submit an Application and participate in the Drawing, you must: (1)…
11 April 2018 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 04/10/2018We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 103 new rules of which 21 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 10 additional rules of which 4 are Shared Object rules. There were…
6 April 2018 - Later this month, (currently planning) around April 25th, we will be forcing everyone who visits Snort.org, either via API (oinkcode) or the website to at least negotiate at TLS version 1.2 or 1.3.Today we do not enforce this restriction, but as we move more and more things here at Snort / Talos / C…
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..
