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Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 8,767 posts.
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US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails
The U.S. government has taken the opportunity during the global pandemic, when people aren't traveling out of the country much, to roll out a new platform for storing information they believe they are entitled to take from people crossing the border. A new filing reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol will store data from…
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Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable…
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XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor recently found in XZ, which is used in many popular Linux distributions and in OpenSSH server process.
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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental
Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user's location or address book.[caption]The App Ops interface removed in...
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Mastodon and Keybase
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The most dangerous code in the world
Abstract: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the de facto standard for secure Internet communications. Security of SSL connections against an active network attacker depends on correctly validating public-key certificates presented when the connection is established. We demonstrate that SSL certificate validation is…
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#include </etc/shadow>
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Flipping Pages: New Linux vulnerability in nf_tables and exploitation techniques
A tale about exploiting KernelCTF Mitigation, Debian, and Ubuntu instances with a double-free in nf_tables in the Linux kernel, using novel techniques like Dirty Pagedirectory. All without even having to recompile the exploit for different kernel targets once.
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Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor's operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South…
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250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
250 million leaked conversations between Microsoft customer support agents and customers were left exposed on the web, putting users at risk of phishing.
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Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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This is why people fear the Internet of Things
Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home automation gizmo, only to find that it secretly and constantly phones home to a vast peer-to-peer (P2P) network run by the Chinese manufacturer of the hardware. Now imagine that the geek gear you bought doesn’t actually…
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I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
Adam Kues used a $200 GPT5.6 Sol Ultra subscription to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection and full RCE exploit chain in WordPress Core – a chain that chains a batch API desync, cache poisoning, changeset abuse, and hook injection into a complete takeover.
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Curl’s backdoor threat
-- "Have you ever detected anyone trying to add a backdoor to curl?" -- "Have you ever been pressured by an organization or a person to add suspicious code to curl that you wouldn't otherwise accept?" -- "If a crime syndicate would kidnap your family to force you to comply, what backdoor would you be … Continue…
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Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
Panerabread.com , the Web site for the American chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants by the same name, leaked millions of customer records — including names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer’s credit card number — for at least eight months before it was yanked…
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Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
The world's worst security flow
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MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.
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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I've found in multiple apps. So I built a deliberately vulnerable book review app and spent $1,500 finding out…
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Just disconnect the internet
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way, lots of people to blame and not to…
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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a
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MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud
Earlier this month, employees at more than 1,000 companies saw one or two paycheck’s worth of funds deducted from their bank accounts after the CEO of their cloud payroll provider absconded with $35 million in payroll and tax deposits from customers . On Monday, the CEO was arrested and allegedly confessed that the…
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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
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Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did …
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iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
Nearly every modern smartphone is equipped with an accelerometer, which, as the name implies, is a sensor that measures acceleration. It’s most commonly used for detecting the device’s orientation. It also has many other uses, whether as a game controller in racing games, as a pedometer for counting daily steps, or to…
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