Mayhem Blog

After hearing a talk, a Dallas-based hacker set out to find out what was going on inside the smart meter attached to his home, and what he found was surprising.

Today verilog test vectors are written by hand, which is slow and expensive. ForAllSecure's Mayhem is the first approach for automatically creating new test vectors to achieve code coverage on Verilog programs, saving companies potentially millions and allowing them to move faster.

In early April, ForAllSecure hosted a day-long hackathon at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? Tom Van Norman, co-founder of the ICS Village, joins The Hacker Mind to share the group’s upcoming plans for RSAC and DEF CON.

Should infosec now be considered vocational training just like becoming an electrician or a plumber? How else should we address the skills gap in infosec? In this episode, Sonny Sandelius, Assistant Director of the SANS workforce programs, talks about his organization’s programs that recruit people from outside the normal computer science backgrounds.

ForAllSecure is investing $2 million to make open source software (OSS) more secure with a a free version of its flagship product Mayhem.

Hackers often make it look easy when in fact they started with no plan and were just following their curiosity, going down paths erratically just like a rabbit. Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability within the Jupyter Notebook within CosmosDB in Microsoft Azure.

ForAllSecure, the world’s most advanced Application Security Testing technology, today announced it has raised $21 million in a series B funding round.

Can you hack an airplane? A satellite in orbit? Turns out that you can. And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing. Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government together to work through issues.