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..
18 August 2017 - Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket.
18 August 2017 - Despite yesterday's leak of the Apple iOS Secure Enclave decryption key, experts are urging calm over claims of an immediate threat to user data.
18 August 2017 - Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring discuss this week's security news, including a discussion on recent hijacking of popular Chrome extensions and Adobe's decision to end-of-life Flash Player.
17 August 2017 - Cisco patched two high-severity vulnerabilities in its Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) that could allow an attacker to elevate privileges on the host machine.
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.
10 August 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/10/2017We 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 4 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules. There were no…
9 August 2017 - Just released:Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/08/2017We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 5 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 2 additional rules of which 1 are Shared Object rules. There were no…
8 August 2017 - Written by community member Boris Gomez, we've posted a setup guide that he provided, for Snort 2.9.9.x on OpenSuSE Leap 42.2.Please take a look our documentation page, check it out, and let Boris know of any issues you find!
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..
