Friday, March 8
TOP STORY
Wired highlights team of researchers that are using Twitter to spot “trending vulnerabilities” by accurately ranking the severity of vulnerabilities based on an automated analysis of human language. Read the full research paper Analyzing the Perceived Severity of Cybersecurity Threats Reported on Social Media.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Threatcrowd is able to list domains registered by a specific email address: https://www.threatcrowd.org/email.php?email=domain@teslamotors.com … Very handy for open-scope #bugbounty programs!
#bugbountytip - @MrTuxracer
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
A US Senate subcommittee published a scathing report titled How Equifax neglected cybersecurity and suffered a devastating data breach.
InfoSecSherpa wants you to turn a children's book into an #InfoSec book title
A deep dive into Triton malware by E&E News’ Blake Sobczak
Gone in six seconds: Pentest Partners reports some pretty devastating stuff on several popular car alarm manufacturers
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“I was surprised that a company as big as Equifax who has so much sensitive data on so many people in this country was so ill prepared to anticipate a cyber attack and to be able to thwart it.”