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What Happens to Electronic Records in the Archives?

The Texas Record

The Archives and information services division at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has a sophisticated electronic records processes. During E-records 2020 Brian Thomas, an Electronic Records Specialist at TSLAC, presented “What Happens Electronic Records Sent to the State Archives?” doc to.pdf).

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

Security Affairs

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. We need to tell to the liner that we want a plain binary file without linked libraries or linked symbols, fir such a reason we’re going to use –oformat binar. This code is the so-called bootloader. as -o boot.o

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Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Schneier on Security

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. The vulnerability is not part of the applications themselves but of the underlying Electron framework -- ­and that vulnerability allows malicious activities to be hidden within processes that appear to be benign.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

Security Affairs

I want to “spoil” the conclusions now, but it’s getting pretty sad if an APT group makes use of its knowledge to take advance from COVID-19 outbreak. The first stage is a fake PDF file. Two main sections: one is a kind of header where it is possible to observe commands, and the other section is a big encoded payload.lnk file. Beautified.lnk file.

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What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. ” What constitutes “good faith security research?”

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll which includes the real functionalities used by Jason.exe, it’s a Microsoft developed library, PassSamplewhich includes some patterns implementation of possible Passwords (ie.[User@first]@@[user@first]123) I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Michael Lortz.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

In other words all the infrastructures, the samples, the command and controls, the domains and IPs, the certificate, the libraries and, general speaking, all the operations that come before the attack phase in term of environments. However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019.