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Linux Systems Are a More Common Target as the Attack Surface Expands

Heimadal Security

Often overlooked by security experts, Linux systems become a more common target for cybercriminals. Aiming to get as much money as possible, hackers are expanding the digital attack surface beyond Windows operating systems. Linux systems are not only […].

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Hardening Firmware Across the Android Ecosystem

Google Security

And the AP is one of many such processors of a System On Chip (SoC). For the purposes of this blog, we refer to the software that runs on all these other processors as “Firmware”. Conveniently, Android has significant experience in enabling exploit mitigations across critical attack surfaces.

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Open Source Libraries (CVE-2019-13499)

ForAllSecure

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. What Makes a Good Target? Can I Build and Run the Target?

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Open Source Libraries (CVE-2019-13499)

ForAllSecure

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. What Makes a Good Target? Can I Build and Run the Target?

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UNCOVERING VULNERABILITIES IN OPEN SOURCE LIBRARIES

ForAllSecure

In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference , Das U-Boot , and more. What Makes a Good Target? 1: Can I Build and Run the Target?

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. In 2006, BackTrack Linux happened which was based initially on Slax, then moved to Ubuntu. Using everything which was learnt, Kali Linux was born.

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