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Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero Gone Too Soon: Dan Kaminsky, Hacker Hero The cybersecurity researcher community has been in mourning this past week as legendary hacker Dan Kaminsky tragically passed away on April 23. Kaminsky was a well known and widely loved figure, for his character, his skills and his research. He was a fixture in the security conference scene, in particular at the annual Black Hat and DEFCON security conferences where he was legendary for numerous discoveries and research. Kaminsky will forever be remembered for the flaw in DNS tha...

Beloved security industry leader and researcher passes away unexpectedly at the age of 42.

‘We owe him so much… People who will never know his name owe Dan’ The information security community has lost another leading light, after it was announced that prominent security researcher and DNS specialist Dan Kaminsky has died. The news was confirmed by Kaminsky’s niece yesterday (April 25), who said her uncle had passed away after a short illness due to complications arising from diabetes, a condition he had “struggled [with] for years”. Kaminsky, 42, was known for his many contributions including the discovery of a serious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability in 2008, early wo...

Share Over 90 percent of cabinet-level agencies have now published a vulnerability-disclosure policy (VDP) in compliance with a September mandate from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The CISA binding operational directive (BOD) required federal agencies to implement programs that would give vulnerability reporters clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems, by March 1. On Friday, a CISA spokesperson said that with the March deadline now passed, the majority of Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies - including over 90 percent of cabinet...

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman Share Copy Updated Computer scientists at the University of Minnesota theorized they could sneak vulnerabilities into open-source software – but when they tried subverting the Linux kernel, it backfired spectacularly. And now their entire school – or at least anyone using a umn.edu email address – has been banned from offering future Linux kernel contributions. Qiushi Wu, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at the American college, and Kangjie Lu, assistant professor at the school, pe...