Good morning. This is your security briefing for Friday, October 10, 2025, covering three articles from yesterday's developments. All attribution is by the article authors, and all article analysis is automated.
USENIX reports that VehicleSec '25 will feature a keynote by Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, reflecting on the decade since their remote Jeep hack that exposed connected vehicle vulnerabilities and triggered a recall of 1.5 million vehicles. The conference will showcase current research on automotive cybersecurity threats and defense mechanisms.
Medium examines Detection Engineering as an emerging discipline that applies software engineering principles to cybersecurity threat detection. The article emphasizes a shift from reactive alert management to systematic engineering of detections, requiring skills that span threat research, data science, software development, and security analysis.
Lawfare's podcast features Atlantic Council researchers discussing the global commercial spyware industry, including the geographic concentration of vendors and growing U.S. investor involvement. The discussion highlights how spyware firms evade accountability through jurisdiction changes and corporate restructuring, while exploring policy recommendations for U.S. regulation of the market.