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Happy New Year! Or so I thought. After a refreshing Christmas vacation with my family, I was stashing something away in our storage room when I noticed the server fan running at maximum speed. This was very unexpected, considering my server is powered by an Intel i3 and should handle all the light tasks I run quite…
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security
I work in a company that uses custom electronic boards, so there are plenty of instruments floating around that electrical engineers employ to debug faulty connections and solderings. One kind of tools used are the oscilloscopes, tools that measure signals and plot them in a graphically understandable way. We have a…
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What started off as casual scrolling through the KernelCTF submissions quickly spiraled into a weeks-long deep dive into a deceptively simple patch - and my first root shell from a Linux kernel exploit!
In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS
This blog post doesn't have the answers. I'm trying to learn about passkeys, but I don't claim to be an expert. I do have a lot of questions, especially for Apple, because I'm an Apple user and developer. According to Betteridge's law of headlines , "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.
TL;DR: Fritz!Box devices using custom DNS resolution services like Pihole or Adguard might have been compromised by DNS hijacking and using those Fritz!Box devices might be unsafe, especially for Windows users. Update: I updated the article to downscale the severity of the situation. After posting the article on HN, I…
A little over a year ago, my employer threw away our VPNs in production and production-like server environments and moved towards a set of new, cutting-edge technologies that make remote access sim…
Update: It turns out my 7805 isn't counterfeit. eclectro did an in-depth search ( details on reddit ) and found an old 7805 datasheet fro...
Siguza’s Blog
Debuggers serve as invaluable tools that empower developers to halt code execution and thoroughly analyze its behavior at any given moment. By utilizing debuggers, developers can efficiently identify and resolve issues within their code, making it an indispensable part of their toolkit.
Last Friday, the New York Times reported that the NSA has hacked/infiltrated Huawei, a big Chinese network hardware firm. We may have witne...
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout…
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Quick and easy guide for securing macOS systems, for both laymen and security enthusiasts. Last updated for Golden Gate.
