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Corelight Co-founder Dr. Vern Paxson Receives Prominent USENIX Security Test of Time Award


Paxson’s 1998 paper “Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time” honored for its profound impact on the field of security and privacy

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Corelight, the leader in open network detection and response (NDR), today announced company co-founder, and creator of Zeek®, Dr. Vern Paxson has received the distinguished USENIX “Test of Time” award for his work entitled “Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Timepublished in 1998. The paper marked the official launch of open source technology Bro (now known as Zeek), which has since become the de-facto standard for network security monitoring and network visibility.

“Dr. Paxson’s work in creating Bro marked a turning point in how organizations could get a handle on, and gain better access to, the traffic that was coming into their networks at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy,” said Dr. Kevin Fu, associate professor of EECS at the University of Michigan and USENIX steering committee member. “The committee felt strongly that this paper should stand as a ‘must read’ classic paper for any graduate computer security course.”

The USENIX “Test of Time” award is intended to recognize papers that have had a lasting impact on their respective fields and that were presented at its respective conference at least 10 years ago.

“In the late 1990s, effective ways to monitor and analyze traffic over the Internet were virtually nonexistent. That left sites unable to distinguish malicious traffic from harmless traffic,” said Paxson. “Bro/Zeek was designed as a means of identifying possible intrusions on a network right as they were happening, by analyzing in detail the traffic flying by on high-speed network links. By open sourcing the code, the hope was that it would both benefit the community and in turn benefit from community efforts to enhance it.

“More than 20 years later it is a thrill to see how not only how expansive the Bro/ Zeek, community has grown, but also to see how the thousands of contributions to it over the years have made it one of the most powerful and reliable network security offerings today,” he continued. “I have long had roots in the USENIX…

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We’re ‘firefighters’ for victims of armed conflict – Hackers Without Borders co-founder on NGO’s timely arrival


‘We had NGOs for press, medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for cyber-attack victims’

Hackers Without Borders co-founder discusses the NGOs timely arrival

INTERVIEW A trailblazing humanitarian group launched last month as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border. What followed has made its existence all the more necessary.

Hackers Without Borders (HWB) is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that is offering emergency infosec assistance to other NGOs and providers of critical services.

Like fellow NGO and semi-namesake Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the group emphasizes its neutrality when helping victims of armed conflict.

Staffed by volunteer hackers and infosec experts, the organization will, free of charge, help individuals or organizations handle the fallout of cyber-attacks, protect them from further assaults, and bolster their cyber-resilience.

“We have NGOs for press, for medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for protecting and helping the victims of cyber-attacks,” HWB co-founder Florent Curtet tells The Daily Swig.

“We hope to change this by creating an NGO that’s run by cybersecurity experts, who can provide security assistance to those in need.”

Curtet, a web security specialist who has previously pen-tested systems for Interpol, the UN, and the French Ministry of Armed Forces, is one of four co-founders with a range of expertise.

The others include Pierre-Marie Léoutre, a crypto-security expert and former threat intelligence specialist at the Gendarmerie Nationale; Karim Lamouri, a multilingual IT director for a Parisian suburb and security consultancy CEO; and Clément Domingo, an ethical hacker, capture-the-flag (CTF) competition founder and participant, and founder of a digital privacy awareness-raising campaign aimed at students.

RELATED Bug bounty leader Clément Domingo on cybersecurity in Africa, hacking events, and chaining vulnerabilities for maximum impact

Red Cross attack

The quartet decided to form HWB after being angered by the recent cyber-attack against the International Committee of the Red Cross that exposed information belonging to over half a million “highly vulnerable” people.

On February 4, just over…

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‘We’re firefighters for victims of armed conflict’ – Hackers Without Borders co-founder on NGO’s timely arrival


‘We had NGOs for press, medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for cyber-attack victims’

Hackers Without Borders co-founder discusses the NGOs timely arrival

INTERVIEW A trailblazing humanitarian group launched last month as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border. What followed has made its existence all the more necessary.

Hackers Without Borders (HWB) is a Paris-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that is offering emergency infosec assistance to other NGOs and providers of critical services.

Like its fellow French NGO and semi-namesake Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the group emphasizes its neutrality when helping victims of armed conflict.

Staffed by volunteer hackers and infosec experts, the organization will, free of charge, help individuals or organizations handle the fallout of cyber-attacks, protect them from further assaults, and bolster their cyber-resilience.

“We have NGOs for press, for medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for protecting and helping the victims of cyber-attacks,” HWB co-founder Florent Curtet tells The Daily Swig.

“We hope to change this by creating an NGO that’s run by cybersecurity experts, who can provide security assistance to those in need.”

Curtet, a web security specialist who has previously pen-tested systems for Interpol, the UN, and the French Ministry of Armed Forces, is one of four co-founders with a range of expertise.

The others include Pierre-Marie Léoutre, a crypto-security expert and former threat intelligence specialist at the Gendarmerie Nationale; Karim Lamouri, a multilingual IT director for a Parisian suburb and security consultancy CEO; and Clément Domingo, an ethical hacker, capture-the-flag (CTF) competition founder and participant, and digital privacy campaigner.

RELATED Bug bounty leader Clément Domingo on cybersecurity in Africa, hacking events, and chaining vulnerabilities for maximum impact

Red Cross attack

The quartet decided to form HWB after being angered by the recent cyber-attack against the International Committee of the Red Cross that exposed information belonging to over half a million “highly vulnerable” people.

On February 4, just over two weeks later, HWB launched with the…

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The co-founder of WhatsApp becomes the director of Signal, its safer alternative – CVBJ


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The helm at the forefront of Signal changes hands. The application is not as popular as WhatsApp in Spain, but it is known to rival it in terms of security and privacy, even the European Union uses Signal. Precisely, the co-founder of WhatsApp is the one who assumes the position in place of Moxie marlinspike, the one who has been CEO of Signal until now.

This transfer is not entirely surprising, since Brian Acton, one of the creators of WhatsApp, has been on the board of directors of the Signal Foundation for years and has been very critical of the evolution of WhatsApp since leaving the company. Since 2018, Acton encourages on its social networks to delete Facebook (now Meta), current owner of WhatsApp.

However, from the statement issued by Signal it appears that Acton will not hold the position permanentlyRather, it will serve as a bridge until the company finds a more suitable candidate for this task. Moxie Marlinspike encourages interested parties to submit their applications for the position.

New Signal address

“I will continue to remain on the Signal board, committed to helping to manifest Signal’s mission from that role, and will transition as CEO over the next month to focus on finding candidates,” states Marlinspike on his website blog. by Signal.

Marlinspike has been a tireless advocate for internet security and privacy, flag that flies in Signal as the most secure messaging application against all types of attacks or espionage, whether from cybercrime groups or governments. It has even promoted where the company’s engineers have hacked a police tool used to enter mobiles in order to demonstrate that this technology was not reliable.

Now this task falls to Brian Acton, who in an interview for Forbes in 2018 showed sorry for selling WhatsApp to Facebook years agowith which he and his partner, Jan Koum, received millions of dollars. “I sold the privacy of my users (…) I made a choice and I compromised. I live with it every day,” he said at the time.

“Brian Acton, who is also on the board of the Signal Foundation, volunteered to serve as interim CEO during the search period,” Marlinspike says the transfer of…

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