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APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unicode normalisation issues
APFS is not currently safe to use with names which might have Unicode normalisation issues – which means it is only safe with a limited ASCII character set.
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Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor ...
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How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor ...
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Comma Separated Vulnerabilities
A Accenture oferece oportunidades que surgem a partir da disrupção tecnológica em todas as indústrias, em todos os países, todos os dias. Saiba mais!
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Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case
There's been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancom case, in which the court found that the GPL was an enforceable contract. I'm going to try to explain the whole thing in clear terms for the legal layman.
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Getting Hacked, Lessons Learned
I read Cody Brown’s blog post about getting hacked on Thursday of last week. I feel very badly for Cody and plan to send him some BTC once I get access back to my account. His post helped me avoid his fate. I woke up Friday morning (central european summer time) and saw a bunch […]
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Maybe we shouldn't skip SHA-3
David Wong writes about cryptography, security, and programming.
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Hacker, Hack Thyself
We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default, even if there
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OneLogin: Breach Exposed Ability to Decrypt Data
OneLogin , an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.
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Maybe Skip SHA-3
In 2005 and 2006, a series of significant results were published against SHA-1 [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]. These repeated break-throughs caused something of a crisis of faith as cryptographers questioned whether we knew how to build hash functions at all. After all, many hash functions from the 1990's had not aged well [ 1 ][ 2…
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Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Mitchell Baker and Ankit Gadgil: India should pause further roll out of Aadhaar until a law protecting individual security is passed.
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‘Carbon Dating’ the Internet Archive with OpenTimestamps
tl;dr: You can now use our searchable database to download Bitcoin timestamps for items in the Internet Archive.
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How Dirty COW works from the Linux kernel’s perspective
Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is one of the most publicised local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in 2016, courtesy to its catchy name, cute logo, potential damages, and the fact that it was discovered in the wild by a researcher Phil Oester, meaning it was already under active use at the time of discovery.
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Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle %
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1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
Travel Mode protects your 1Password data from unwarranted searches when you travel. Find out how – and why — to use it.
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Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
Biometric authentication systems – again – don’t deliver on their security promise: The iris recognition system of the new Samsung Galaxy S8 was successfully defeated by hackers of the Chaos...
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Get your loved ones off Facebook
I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read b
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HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
Today, we deployed HTTPS by default on Stack Overflow. All traffic is now redirected to https:// and Google links will change over the next few weeks. The ac...
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Laptop Ban a Reaction to X-Ray Equipment Stolen by ISIS
On March 21st, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered airlines flying to the U.S. out of 10 airports, mostly in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, to refuse to transport …
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Learning to break ciphers
Every now and then, I read a question about learning how to break ciphers, or more generally how to become a cryptographer/cryptologist. From my viewpoint, the most important part of learning this…
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Attacking Machine Learning with Adversarial Examples
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm
Written by Sergei Shevchenko and Adrian Nish BACKGROUND Since the release of the ETERNALBLUE exploit by ‘The Shadow Brokers’ last month se...