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Many news sites and blogs are reporting that the data stolen last month from 37 million users of AshleyMadison.com — a site that facilitates cheating and extramarital affairs — has finally been posted online for the world to see. In the past 48 hours, several huge dumps of data claiming to be the actual AshleyMadison…
The Google transport networking crew (QUIC, TCP, etc..) deserve a shout out for identifying and fixing a nearly decade old Linux kernel TCP ...
SQLite is probably the most popular embedded database in use today; it is also known for being exceptionally well-tested and robust. In co...
Update : Ralf wrote up some notes from his work. These now include an update themselves with information from Willem Pinckaers that suggests that the presumed Dual-EC output is exposed to the world in Juniper devices.
Arbitrary password rules are a vain attempt to increase security by forcing unnecessary complexity
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
Last updated 6/26/2015 - 4:49 PM EST. -- Windows Update will be abbreviated as "WU" in text from myself. First of all, I had this incl...
For the past week, the website "GitHub" has been under attack by China. In this post, I pin-point where the attack is coming from by doing a...
We recently switched Google's two billion line repository over to BoringSSL , our fork of OpenSSL . This means that BoringSSL is now powering Chromium (on nearly all platforms), Android M and Google's production services. For the first time, the majority of Google's products are sharing a single TLS stack and making…
A Finnish online bank leaked out user data by using a third-party tracker script.
We already put legal limits on financial, medical, military, transportation, and agriculture technology. Why not online tracking?
Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys. It’s now blurred out of the Washington Post story, but the image is still floating around the Internet. The whole thing neatly illustrates one of the main problems with backdoors…
Hello, Lately I have been looking into race condition bugs affecting websites/web-applications. Here is a good resource to learn about th...
What is credit card fraud, how we noticed it and how it impacted our business.
Seriously.
Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
Even after the Snowden revelations, there remained at least one big mystery about what the NSA was doing and how. The NSA’s classified 2013 budget request mentioned, as a priority item, R…
Earlier today, Motherboard posted a court document filed in a prosecution against a Silk Road 2.0 user, indicating that the user had been de-anonymized on the Tor network thanks to research conduct…
How to obtain encryption keys to decrypt the LastPass vault in different scenarios
Back in summer I have read a new bookpublished by one of the core Intel architects about the Management Engine (ME).I didn’t quite like what I read there. In...
TL;DR: check mail-tester.com or Spam Checker. If you don't get 10/10, read this post. In a previous post, we saw how to configure a Debian mail server with Postfix and Dovecot, but we did not address an important issue: spam. Major e-mail providers are defending their users …
Yesterday the New York Times and ProPublica posted a lengthy investigation based on leaked NSA documents, outlining the extensive surveillance collaboration between AT&T and the U.S. government…
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