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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
Investigation of the practice of port scanning site visitors for fingerprinting and tracking.
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SSH Agent Explained
The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.
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Signal PINs
At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours.
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How to Use Trend Micro's Rootkit Remover to Install a Rootkit
The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not reflect the opinions or views of my employer. All research was conducted independently. For a recent project, I had to do research into methods rootkits are detected and the most effective measures to catch them when
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US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service .
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The unattributable “db8151dd” data breach
I was reticent to write this blog post because it leaves a lot of questions unanswered, questions that we should be able to answer. It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I
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Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently
Yuebin Sun(@yuebinsun2020) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab 0x0 SummaryToday, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for macOS patched three critical vulnerabilities(CVE-2020-9615, CVE-2020-9614, CVE-2020-9613) I repo
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White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a system
Warning: Half-satire, half-truth
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WeChat Surveillance Explained
This document provides a summary of the Citizen Lab's WeChat surveillance research findings, as well as questions and answers from the resesearch team.
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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
Huawei has seemingly stepped its foot into the kernel self-protection game with the release of HKSP. Absent any threat model and riddled with weaknesses, it also introduces a trivially exploitable local root vulnerability due to a complete lack of defensive programming.
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The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)
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We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)
Dissecting an SSL certificate
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Nazar: Analyzing malware that was uncovered in leaked NSA files
In mid-2017, The Shadow Brokers exposed NSA files in a leak known as "Lost In Translation".Recently, researcher uncovered "Nazar", a previously-unknown APT that was mentioned in the leak.We decided to dive into each and every one of the components and share our technical analysis. What we found out, is far from being…
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Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day
This is a special post because I fully based on another researcher, s1guza’s 0day. All of this story began from the following tweet: Siguza told us that his 0day was patched in the iOS 13.5 beta3. So this is actually a sandbox escape 0day for the newest, non-beta iOS version (13.4.1). In this post, I’ll…
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A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
An example-rich description of the architecture of static code analysis systems along with a hands-on tutorial on how to implement it.
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What would you do if you lost your Google account?
What happens when you forget your password or loose your phone? What Google wants to know to validate your identity?
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So I reverse engineered two dating apps
In this post I show some of my findings during the reverse engineering of the apps Coffee Meets Bagel and The League. I have identified several critical vulnerabilities during the research, all of which have been reported to the affected vendors. Introduction In these unprecedented times, more and more people are…
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Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape
Siguza’s Blog
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The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust
Our team, DeisLabs , recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet , which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes . Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and is primarily…
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Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: “My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value,” Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. “I’m not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mean the efficacy. Does…
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Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking
Stripe has made several significant, positive changes to its user tracking and privacy policies in the last week.
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Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git is underrated (2019)
Hashicorp Vault hogs the limelight as cost-effective powerful KMS solutions are hidden in plain sight. Click here to explore Mozilla SOPS.