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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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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. Security vulnerabilities in the update system allows someone to silently inject malicious code into applications. Basically, the Electron ASAR files aren't signed or encrypted, so modifying them is easy.

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Calculating electronic records storage costs

The Schedule

This post will do the same for electronic records and follows the same formula of not taking into account personnel or overhead costs or depreciation of equipment. If you prefer a truncated version of this information, I’ve created a 1-page brochure of questions to consider about electronic records storage costs. On-Premise Storage.

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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Krebs on Security

Officers responding to the report searched the residence and found multiple cell phones and SIM cards, as well as files on the kid’s computer that included “an extensive list of names and phone numbers of people from around the world.”

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. In the meantime, you can find the full list of security incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. In other news….

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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. How the PC boot process works ? as -o boot.o References.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. 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)