We all have questions, but who are the people with the answers for Cybersecurity. In this series we sat down with academics and experts to ask them about how they got started, what they are researching now, their lessons for us and the future. This week Prof Florian Martin-Bariteau of the University of Ottawa tells us …
(English version will follow) Cette semaine, nous avons eu le plaisir de nous entretenir avec Serge-Olivier Paquette, chercheur en cybersécurité et intelligence artificielle chez Delve Labs, une startup montréalaise spécialisée dans le développement d’outils de sécurité autonome. Parlez-nous de vous. Chez Delve Labs, j’exerce un rôle hybride de scientifique de données, programmeur, statisticien et expert en cybersécurité. …
Accounts of social network users can be compromised in a number of ways. When malware infects a user account, that account can be used to spread spam and malware as well as to gather personal information. Current online systems employ authentication mechanism to verify user’s identities and determine their corresponding authorities. Once authenticated, users are …
I see a lot of our work as being the antidote to the poison of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Oxford puts FUD in its place nicely by suffixing the definition with “,usually evoked intentionally in order to put a competitor at a disadvantage.” Superlative laden stories about the biggest, worst, most expensive, unstoppable, etc. hacking …
Euvgeny Naumov Delve Labs presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop in 2017 The rapid rise in the number and ubiquity of internet services and internet-facing devices has increased pressure to automate cybersecurity monitoring. However, vulnerabilities discovered by automated solutions per scan can number in the thousands and beyond, still placing a considerable burden on security teams …
DARPA held their cyber grand challenge in Las Vegas last week. The challenge pitted 7 autonomous security systems against each other in a Capture The Flag Competition. The winning system then went on to compete in DEFcon’s regular CTF against human competition and did as well as was expected (dead last). The job of commentating 7 …