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It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the fundamentals of third-party tracking, explain the scope of the problem, and suggest ways for users and legislation to fight back…
We open-sourced a fault injection tool, KRF, that uses kernel-space syscall interception. You can use it today to find faulty assumptions (and resultant bugs) in your programs. Check it out! This post covers intercepting system calls from within the Linux kernel, via a plain old kernel module. We’ll go through a quick…
Beau Bullock & Michael Felch // Source: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-calendar-by-google/gmbgaklkmjakoegficnlkhebmhkjfich Overview Google Calendar is one of the many features provided to those who sign up for a Google account along with other popular […]
Unit 42 brings together world-renowned threat researchers, incident responders and security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization that's passionate about helping you proactively manage cyber risk.
Running a complex network is not an easy job. In addition to simply keeping it up and running, you need to keep an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion, a compromised instance, or some other anomaly. VPC Traffic Mirroring Today we are launching VPC…
Posted by James Forshaw, path’ological reverse engineer.How the Win32 APIs process file pat...
First published April 2018.
Extracting BitLocker keys sealed with a TPM by sniffing the LPC bus
With Sophos Cloud Native Security, you can easily integrate protection across multiple environments while minimizing detection time and response.
An investigation revealing that Mexican soda tax supporters were targeted with NSO Group's government-exclusive spyware and exploit framework.
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves: Here is the "Whois" record for the fake domain used to send the…
This whitepaper explains the basic technical details of STIR/SHAKEN call authentication and how it prevents caller ID spoofing.
The majority of the police forces that answered questions by AlgorithmWatch said they use or plan to introduce face recognition. Use cases vary greatly across countries, but almost all have in common their lack of transparency.
Last month, the Kenya Parliament passed a seriously concerning amendment to the country’s national ID law, making Kenya home to the most privacy-invasive national ID system in the world. The ...
We are thrilled to announce that the core security features of the Elastic Stack -- like TLS encryption, RBAC, and both file and native authentication -- are now free.
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
Google has become synonymous with the internet, offering services from search engines to email, cloud storage, and more.
We wrote a cryptography library entirely in PHP to make your WordPress site secure against supply-chain attacks.
Stealing Downloads from Slack Users I’m going to go over an interesting feature abuse that could have been used to steal and even manipulate downloads from Slack users using the Slack desktop app …
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side
Note: Read about past updates to this technology in other blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
Linux uses dm-crypt in order to provide transparent disk or partition encryption. What are the options in case you need to recover passphrase from such encryption? There are already ready-made tools, but we have also produced and published our own in order to support newer LUKS format/ciphers/hashing.
