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Recent attacks demonstrated the importance of software integrity. But how can businesses properly vet applications running on their network? Ed Skoudis, fellow with the SANS Institute and founder of the Counter Hack, spoke to Security Weekly’s Paul Asadoorian during the RSA Conference about the evolving threat and how to address vulnerabilities that often go overlooked when integrating software into the IT infrastructure.

A man walks through a Microsoft server farm in Switzerland. One researcher warned of the potential for data poisoning: adding intentionally misleading data to a pool so it machine learning analysis misidentifies its inputs.(Amy Sacka for Microsoft) Data poisoning attacks against the machine learning used in security software may be attackers’ next big vector, said Johannes Ullrich, dean of research of SANS Technology Institute. Machine learning is based on pattern recognition in a pool of data. Data poisoning is adding intentionally misleading data to that pool so it begins to misidentify ...

Lessons learned and mission accomplished, apparently Share Copy The US government's response groups for dealing with recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities have reached the end of the road. In a statement on Monday, US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger said the two Unified Coordination Groups (UCGs) formed in January and March respectively will be disbanded. "Due to the vastly increased patching and reduction in victims, we are standing down the current UCG surge efforts and will be handling further responses through st...

Suggested, recognize russia's illegal annexation of crimea. >> as you point out, russia and putin have plenty of problems domestically, especially when it comes to russia's economy and what it means for their citizens. before i let you go, the white house has vowed the u.s. will respond to russian hacks but haven't made clear of how or when. you said unless russia pays a high price they will continue to meddle in u.s. affairs. i wonder from your perspective and where you sit, on the intelligence review, what should that retaliation look like, sanctions, counter hack, what would be most effecti...