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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Krebs on Security

Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons. “Due to the nature of the attacks, the review of this matter and its impact is ongoing.”

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Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Security Affairs

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Cyber Threats Observatory Gets Improvements

Security Affairs

Collecting everything coming from their execution and clustering on strings similitude would highlight several stereotypes that would be interesting for further studies or similitude blocking lists. Studying stereotypes would be useful to analyze similarities in clusters. The following image shows the current deployment state.

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More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems

Schneier on Security

Studying this case, our experts found other samples that used similar algorithms. Now we learn that six other companies were targeted in the same operation. As we mentioned before, ASUS was not the only company used by the attackers.

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

“ Bluetana ,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. student and principal author of the study.

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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. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. How the PC boot process works ? Used tools.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens.