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Ferocious Kitten: 6 years of covert surveillance in Iran

SecureList

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories.

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5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

Malwarebytes

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. DNS encryption restores your privacy by making it impossible for anything other than the DNS resolver to read and respond to your queries. Passwords are a great idea in theory that fail horribly in practice.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 2013: The End of the Silk Road Authorities were able to trace the pseudonym back to Ulbricht thanks to the efforts of an IRS investigator who was working with the DEA on the Silk Road case in mid-2013. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. billion in value.

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The Challenges Facing the Passwordless Future

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. Apple has also promised that passwords will be a thing of the past, and passkeys will become available for iOS 16. Dashlane last month integrated passkeys into its cross-platform password manager.

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MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware

SecureList

It obtains the ScrambleCross shellcode by applying a modified ChaCha20 algorithm on an encrypted blob, which may reside as an additional file on disk or be embedded in the loader itself. Both the IP and the server directory path are encrypted with AES-128 using a base64 encoded key stored in the backdoor’s image.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors.

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