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The Wretched State of OT Firmware Patching

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The Wretched State of OT Firmware Patching

By Eric Byres on October 11, 2023

This blog is a follow-up to our first post on the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report where I described our collaboration with Microsoft on identified exploitable OT vulnerabilities.There...

Microsoft Digital Defense Report: Behind the Scenes Creating OT Vulnerabilities

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Vulnerability Tracking

Microsoft Digital Defense Report: Behind the Scenes Creating OT Vulnerabilities

By Eric Byres on October 5, 2023

Earlier this summer, aDolus collaborated with Microsoft on vulnerability analysis and contributed to their Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 (MDDR 2023). This report is a significant...

An Analysis of Generative AI: How to Be Confidently Wrong

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An Analysis of Generative AI: How to Be Confidently Wrong

By Marcello Delcaro on April 11, 2023

The recent release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy document by the White House prompted me to test Microsoft's new Bing chat feature, which is powered by OpenAI's language model,...

S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 3: VEX Document Ingestion

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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 3: VEX Document Ingestion

By Derek Kruszewski on March 16, 2023

Three weeks ago I reported on the first part of the S4x23 SBOM Challenge run by Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which focused on SBOM Creation. Last week I reported on the second part:...

S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 2: SBOM Ingestion

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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 2: SBOM Ingestion

By Derek Kruszewski on March 8, 2023

Two weeks ago I reported on the first part of the SBOM Challenge at the S4x23 cybersecurity conference in Miami, Florida. The Day 1 goal was for each team to create an accurate SBOM for...

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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 1

By Derek Kruszewski on February 24, 2023

The aDolus Team has just returned from participating in the SBOM Challenge at the S4x23 cybersecurity conference in Miami, Florida. This blog is the first of a series reporting on what we...

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A Deeper Dive into VEX Documents

By Derek Kruszewski on April 15, 2022

At the end of last summer, I wrote a blog post explaining the merits of Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) documents. Almost 8 months later, I stand by the importance of these...

Log4j: Panic or Lesson? | How to Protect Deployed Assets

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Log4j: Panic or Lesson? | How to Protect Deployed Assets

By Ron Brash on December 21, 2021

Cleaning up the Mess will Take a Methodical Approach Nearly every week the cybersecurity community buzzes around a newly discovered vulnerability or a breach. December’s alert for the ...

Sorry Blackberry: You Are Part of the Supply Chain

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Sorry Blackberry: You Are Part of the Supply Chain

By Eric Byres on November 2, 2021

Today, reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Eric Geller at Politico published a story: “BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in software powering cars, hospital equipment.” They outline...

Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 4

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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 4

By Eric Byres on May 26, 2021

Section 3 - Less Fog, More Cloud Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity of the Executive Order is all about government agencies moving to the cloud and doing it right. If...