Thursday 29 January 2015

Startup PFP finds malware intrusions by monitoring processor radio frequencies

Startup PFP is based on research from Virginia Tech funded by the Departments of Defense and  Homeland Security. They were seeking a way to identify whether software-defined radios have unauthorized software running on them. The technology that was developed has a much more general application, particularly in SCADA and other embedded systems, which are often difficult to protect using standard anti-malware tools.
The name PFP comes from power fingerprinting, which is how the founders describe what their system establishes for each device it protects.

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Europe (well London) Gets A Cyber Security Incubator

Cyber London (CyLon for short, - the scary robots from Battlestar Galactica!) will be a 12-week program, has been co-founded by Alex van Someren of VC firm Amadeus Capital Partners, who previously founded U.K. cryptography company nCipher along with Jonathan Luff and Grace Cassy, co-founders of Epsilon Advisory Partners. CyLon’s program will be managed by the Ignite accelerator.