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Overview On March 25, 2021, 360 NETLAB's BotMon system flagged a suspiciousELF file (MD5=64f6cfe44ba08b0babdd3904233c4857) with 0 VT detection, the sample communicates with 4 domains on TCP 443 (HTTPS), but the traffic is not of TLS/SSL. A close look at the sample revealed it to be a backdoor targeting
The Belgian government has removed 'backdoor requirement' from new law after international protest.
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The forthcoming Senate draft of Biden's infrastructure bill—a 2,000+ page bill designed to update the United States’ roads, highways, and digital infrastructure—contains a poorly crafted provision that could create new surveillance requirements for many within the blockchain ecosystem. This could...
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Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroOn January 29, 2019, a serious vulnerability was ...
A detailed description of how we made Google Docs run inside the new Flow Browser. The number of websites that work in Flow is increasing regularly.
Detectify analyzed 50,000 unique Nginx configuration files on GitHub and reported some common misconfigurations.
Today, Mozilla published an independent security audit of its Mozilla VPN, which provides encryption and device-level protection of your connection and inf
Our Kickstarter campaign for our next generation of Solo products launches on January 26th. To get alerted when the campaign is live, you can sign up here. Update: The campaign is now live! Check it out to see all the details. Humble beginnings I've been working on Solo for almost 3 years now. It started back when I…
Learn how to protect your SaaS applications with the SaaS CTO security checklist. Doing the basics goes a long way in keeping your company and product secure.
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
The wait is over. [1Password for Linux is officially here](https://support.1password.com/getting-started-linux/).
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
Today, with the launch of Firefox 87, we are excited to introduce SmartBlock, a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Firefox Private Browsing and Strict Mode. SmartBlock ensures that strong ...
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Posted by Dan Lorenc, Infrastructure Security Team Memory-safety vulnerabilities have dominated the security field for years and often lead ...
This is an opinionated guide. After 12 years of reverse engineering professionally, I have developed strong beliefs on how to get good at RE.
Secure, orchestrate, and manage your company’s infrastructure secrets with 1Password Secrets Automation.
GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) are collaborating to help protect you from leaked PyPI API tokens. From today, GitHub will scan every commit to a public repository for…
This blog post is based off of a talk I gave on May 12, 2021 at the Stanford Computer Science Department’s weekly lunch talk series on computer security topics. Full disclosure: I’ve done some consulting work for Signal, albeit not on anything like this issue. (I kinda doubt
SSH tunneling transports data streams within an existing SSH session. This post explains different tunneling techniques and features as supported by OpenSSH.
printf machine. 2020 IOCCC entry carlini - Best of Show - abuse of libc
bypassing macOS's file quarantine, gatekeeper, and notarization requirements
