Autonomous AI guards to stalk the internet fighting hackers
"The Grand Cyber Challenge at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas pitted artificial intelligences against each other, while their human creators sat back and watched. Fighting for a $4 million prize pot from the US Defense Advanced…
Ransomware: Lucrative, fast growing, hard to stop
"'I imagine it will hit into the millions of dollars, if they are able to infect some of the right types of targets in an enterprise environment,' said Devost. Like smart start-up CEOs, the hackers are testing the market and refining the business…
Ransomware Poses a Rising Threat to Hospital Operations
"Because of the potential to disrupt their operations, hospitals are logical targets for attacks. If infected, they may have little choice but to pay the ransom—and quickly, said Matt Devost, CEO of security consultancy FusionX, which is now owned…
How accurate is Mr. Robot? The show’s data, password, and smart home dangers.
"It’s often as simple as that. When I was researching my book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, Matt Devost, president and CEO of the cybersecurity firm FusionX, told me about his days running the ‘red team’ in war games that tested…
Can hackers sway public opinion with DNC and NSA leaks?
"'The first entree into cyberconflict isn’t physical destruction,' says Matthew Devost, President of FusionX, a cybersecurity and risk management company. 'If an airplane with 200 people falls out of the sky, it’s very easy to determine our…
HfS #CyberChat w Accenture's Matt Devost
"In this edition of #CyberChat, Fred McClimans of HfS Research sits down with Matt Devost, Managing Director of Accenture's Vulnerability and Threat Intelligence Practice to discuss the state of Cyber Security and the trends moving enterprise…
Hacking Mr. Robot, week 7.
"Slate and Future Tense are discussing Mr. Robot and the technological world it portrays throughout the show’s second season. You can follow this conversation on Future Tense, and Slate Plus members can also listen to Hacking Mr. Robot, a…
Startup investors are looking to hackers for help on smart bets
"‘I’d say we have really seen a growth in that particular market over the last five years,’ said FusionX CEO Matthew Devost, referring to an uptick in revenue for his business from services purchased by investors. Devost’s company, which was…
What a real cyber war would look like
"In a hot cyber war, the first line of attack would not be like on Star Trek, with spectacular bursts of sparks flying out of computers. Instead it would be a stealth attack on the enemy’s military command and control infrastructure, to keep it from…
Feds consider searches of terrorism blogs
The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan…