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“In the real world, if you build a bookshelf and forget to tighten one of the screws all the way, it does not burn down your house.”

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Sophos (@Sophos) profile pictureSophos@Sophos3 Mar 2021
Tell us a cybersecurity horror story in 6 words.
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Fascinating work teapaw.org/mntmn/status/123662479…
SCOOP: FBI investigating role of Israeli spyware maker NSO in hacking and intelligence matters, per our sources. reuters.com/article/us-usa-c…
Exclusive: FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in personal and government hacks - sources

Exclusive: FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in personal and government hacks - sources

The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments,...

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Dennis@DennisF17 Jan 2020
New @DecipherSec podcast with @kennwhite on the CVE-2020-0601 Windows crypto bug. open.spotify.com/episode/6gE…

Kenn White

Decipher Security Podcast · Episode

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Videos from #RealWorldCrypto 2020 are up. Outstanding talks. totalwebcasting.com/view/?fu… h/t @rmhrisk
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ecmascript should just cut the chase and define addrof/fakeobj as standard APIs, it's getting boring to polyfill them every time
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A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol (papers, models, and code): prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/per…
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Palantir closes new contract with the Pentagon with a reported cost ceiling of $800 million. cnbc.com/2019/03/27/palantir…
Peter Thiel's company Palantir just won a major Pentagon contract, beating out traditional military...

Peter Thiel's company Palantir just won a major Pentagon contract, beating out traditional military...

This is one of Palantir's biggest contracts ever, and its first on a "defense program of record," a designation for the most substantial government contracts.

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Some great progress has been made on RISC-V processor security recently. See, e.g. RWC 2019: teapaw.org/bitcurves/status/11062…
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Related to the DARPA verifiable voting system, the Galois team presented at Real World Crypto 2019 on recent open source RISC work. Video and slides: youtu.be/4hq4yiVCopU?t=1682 (28 min mark) rwc.iacr.org/2019/slides/kin…
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Kim Zetter
@KimZetter14 Mar 2019
Exclusive: @DARPA is building a $10 million secure voting system, fully open source, that it will bring to the @defcon Voting Village this year and next to let hackers/researchers examine and pentest. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a…
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Using a tag-and-release trick, researchers demonstrated they could alter the firmware of some cloud computing servers to plant undetectable, persistent malware on those machines before other customers used them. wired.com/story/dark-metal-c…
Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into Some Cloud Computers

Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into Some Cloud Computers

Researchers point out a tough-to-fix in some cloud computing setups: hackable firmware.

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Apple: TLS 1.3 is now enabled system-wide by default in iOS 12.2. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/ms…
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this will be a fun adventure at the end of the month wired.com/story/tls-encrypti…

An Encryption Upgrade Could Upend Online Payments

While ditching TLS 1.0 encryption will benefit the payments ecosystem, it'll be rough going for those with older devices.

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Interesting research teapaw.org/jedisct1/status/959461…
Frank (@jedisct1) profile pictureFrank
@jedisct12 Feb 2018
OCDN: Oblivious Content Distribution Networks arxiv.org/pdf/1711.01478.pdf
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Alex Ionescu@aionescu2 Jan 2018
Interesting, looks like I missed Intel _finally_ releasing their anti-ROP tracing/monitoring (not CET) technology based on PMU interrupts (see past research by @ochsff @matspisak and others): lwn.net/Articles/738166/. "Intel Branch Monitoring" in CannonLake. MSR 0350h.

perf/x86/intel: Add Branch Monitoring support

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Yes, please teapaw.org/bonsaiviking/status/93…
Daniel Miller ✝ (@bonsaiviking) profile pictureDaniel Miller ✝@bonsaiviking6 Dec 2017
New @nmap option: --resolve-all lets you scan all addresses a name resolves to. nmap --resolve-all -sL microsoft\.com
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Very clever teapaw.org/binitamshah/status/936…
Binni Shah (@binitamshah) profile pictureBinni Shah
@binitamshah2 Dec 2017
Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs : github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-…
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This is a major milestone and includes a CSS engine rewrite in Rust. Congrats to the @firefox team! teapaw.org/firefox/status/9126940…
Firefox (@firefox) profile pictureFirefox
@firefox26 Sep 2017
We’ve basically reinvented fundamental parts of the browser w/ Firefox Quantum & it’s rolling out to everyone Nov 14 mzl.la/FirefoxQuantum
Get Firefox for desktop and mobile

Get Firefox for desktop and mobile

Firefox is a free web browser backed by Mozilla, a non-profit dedicated to internet health and privacy.

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