In-brief: Both Cisco Systems and Fortinet confirmed that vulnerabilities targeted by tools leaked by the previously unknown group Shadow Brokers were real.
Government
Hack of Dems Wider Than Believed |The New York Times
In-brief: The attack on the Democratic National Committee was part of a larger operation against more than 100 Democratic Party officials and affiliated groups, The New York Times is reporting.
NIST Outlines a Secure Network of Things
In-brief: A new Special Publication from NIST offers a model for understanding networks of “things” and the security and reliability issues they might encounter.
White House Effort Yields Rating System for Software Security
In-brief: A White House-backed effort to develop a system for rating software security is set to launch at this week’s Black Hat briefings with famed hacker Peiter Zatko (aka “Mudge”) at the helm.
Clues in language often tip hacker’s hand | CSMonitor.com
In-brief: forensic investigators are using language clues to help identify the source of sophisticated and targeted attacks, like those on Democratic Party committees and the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
