Author: Sylvia Killinen | Security Engineer | GRIMM It’s been widely commented that ChatGPT generates bullshit. That isn’t a pejorative phrase but rather a term of art, as in Herbert’s “On Bullshit,” which defines it as speech intended to persuade, regardless of its truth value. Bullshit is distinguished from lying by a lack of intent […]
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There are plenty of articles detailing the uses of patience, creativity, and above all, learning from your failures. Those are all requirements for excelling in any technical field. Instead of rehashing that baseline, let’s take a look at how a threat actor might stage attacks to create the most extensive damage, regardless of the target.
Professional evil: a glimpse into the tactics and motivations of malicious threat actors Read More »
November is Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience Month, a nationwide effort to raise awareness and reaffirm the commitment to keep our nation’s critical infrastructure secure and resilient. This year’s theme is Infrastructure Security is National Security: Together We Can Drive Down Risk, Build Resilience, which covers the spectrum of infrastructure security. So, why should you
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Introduction When enterprise software gets old, should we consider it tried-and-true, or decrepit and a threat, like the superglue holding the soles of my running shoes together? Old software that’s been humming around in the background hasn’t necessarily broken, but that doesn’t mean that you can necessarily trust it; in fact there should be a
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Earlier today we announced that we raised $3 million in an initial funding round led by the co-founder of Tenable, Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures. This investment will help accelerate our ability to deliver our attack simulation platform and drive new product development. We’ve planned a roadmap of new features and innovations that will disrupt the
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Delta Debugging Have you ever been fuzzing a program and received a crash, only to find the input file was huge? Trying to manually determine which portions of an input file trigger the bug can be an extremely frustrating and time consuming process. Huge input files can make the triage of bugs much harder. This
GRIMM has been a long time advocate of building Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) with a security-by-design approach. We advance our automotive and aerospace clients’ cybersecurity posture for all forms of embedded security concerns. For example, for the past several years, GRIMM has been a co-sponsor and staple at the SANS Automotive conference – a one-stop shop
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At GRIMM, we are always trying out new tools to build our capabilities in vulnerability research. We frequently use fuzzing to search for bugs in applications, but there are some bugs a fuzzer alone would not be able to find. So, we were excited to try out Driller, a tool written by Shellphish. Driller uses symbolic
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GRIMM and SCYTHE are packing our bags and heading to the RSA Conference. We have a busy week planned and are excited to see new and familiar faces. We would be happy to connect one-on-one to talk about the ways your organization can benefit from CROSSBOW. Our teams will be in full force – here are
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The eyes of the world were recently focused on PyeongChang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics. While we watched athletes curl, skate, ski and slide across the frozen South Korean landscape, we at GRIMM had our own South Korean experience! Through GRIMM’s HAX program, which provides real-world, hands-on-keyboard cybersecurity experience to undergraduate college students,
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