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..
23 August 2017 - An exploit dubbed ROPEMAKER relies on taking advantage of email design functionality, namely by remotely changing CSS in HTML-based emails after they've been sent.
23 August 2017 - Flashpoint warns of a new business email compromise campaign targeting organizations in various industries with the aim of harvesting credentials.
22 August 2017 - More than 500 Android mobile apps have been removed from Google Play after it was discovered that an embedded advertising SDK called Igenix could be leveraged to quietly install spyware on devices.
23 August 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/22/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 57 new rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 17 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules. There were n…
21 August 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/17/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 14 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 7 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules. There were no…
21 August 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/15/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 81 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 22 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules. There were n…
10 August 2017 - Join us as we welcome Snort 2.9.11.0 to the family, in beta form!Right off the bat, you will notice that we are going from 2.9.9.0 to 2.9.11.0, skipping over 2.9.10.0. Just to clarify, 2.9.10.0 was an internal only release. We decided not to ship it to the public because timing of back to back 2.9.
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..
