Hacking – Odinn Security

When will hedge funds become interested in the security posture of a company?

By Edward Thomson | March 25, 2017 | Comments 0 Comment

At some point the security posture of a company will be of great interest to hedge funds and investment managers. That is to say that they will be interested in how secure other companies will be and whether that can affect their investments.

The companies of interest are more likely to be a publicly listed company, although it could be of concern for investment managers looking to acquire a share of a private company. For hedge funds and other managers with an appetite for more exotic investment vehicles the security posture of a company could indicate a potential shorting opportunity (making profit from the decline in a company’s share price).

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Wikileaks releases a new dump from the CIA – hacking tools – Vault 7

By Edward Thomson | March 7, 2017 | Comments 0 Comment

I’m losing track of all the leaks that have happened at US government agencies. It seems that yet another load of information has been shared to Wikileaks. This batch of data supposedly carries hacking tools. It seems there is a lot of policy and procedure documents including checklists for secure development.

Wikileaks Vault 7 — A link to the information dump. Caution: some of the information is classified (if this applies to you then you will know that already). Some of the information also been redacted for now.

Scheier’s comments — Bruce and the commenters often provide interesting thoughts and insight.

One interesting thing that Bruce pointed out:

Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized “zero day” exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.

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