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Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) agency announced this week that the source code for one of its malware detection and analysis tools has been made public.
The Python-based tool released as open source by the spy agency is named Assemblyline and it was created within the CSE's Cyber Defence program. The organization says this is one of the tools it uses to protect the country's computer systems against advanced cyber threats.
Assemblyline allows defenders to automate the analysis of malicious files. The analysis process, which has been compared to a conveyor belt, involves assigning a unique identifier to files as they travel through the system, looking for signs of malicious functionality and extracting features for further analysis, generating alerts for malicious files and assigning them a score, and sending data to other protection systems so that identified threats can be neutralized.
[...] The CSE is not the only spy agency to release open source tools. Last year, the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) made available CyberChef, a tool that allows both technical and non-technical people to analyze encryption, compression and decompression, and data formats.
Source: Canada's CSE Spy Agency Releases Malware Analysis Tool
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday October 22 2017, @03:44AM (5 children)
There's a problem with jesting like that: it trivialize the topic to the point of accepting it as normal.
I'm already seeing AC-es here suggesting that US should show the world who's the master, do you really want this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 22 2017, @06:21AM (4 children)
Ehhh - AC's are kinda like me - they're going to do whatever they are going to do.
I suppose a wee bit of background is in order. At work, we have this nutso guy in charge of our department. He's all the time telling us stupid shit, and even stupider shit that he wants us to do. His every order has to be evaluated, to decide whether it is rational. Some of my fellow workers just do what they're told, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. When they comment on my - uhhh - lack of obedience, shall we say, I have a standard response. "Runaway is going to do whatever Runaway does."
A for instance would be, working a weekend. All the rest of the people can get off work, go home, get some sleep (or drugs, or whatever) then come back to work. Me? I work third shift. Boss says it's "mandatory" that everyone work Saturday. Sometimes, I clock out at 7:30, sometimes I work an hour or two, sometimes, I might stay till noon. But, Runaway does whatever the hell he's going to do, and pays little mind to the nut in charge.
So, Anonymous Coward and I have something in common.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 22 2017, @09:57AM (2 children)
You can lead a horse to water...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 22 2017, @10:31AM (1 child)
"You can lead a horse to water..." but if you take your eyes off of him, he'll drink your beer.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday October 22 2017, @12:13PM
Surprise... that's a vodka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday October 23 2017, @12:13AM
"...we have this nutso guy in charge of our department. He's all the time telling us stupid shit, and even stupider shit that he wants us to do. His every order has to be evaluated, to decide whether it is rational."
What?...You work in the White House? Does explain a lot.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--