Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine ’s government for intelligence purposes. March 18 – node-ipc NPM Package sabotage to protest Ukraine invasion. The developer behind the popular “node-ipc” NPM package uploaded a destructive version to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

For lower level users, WordPress does not sanitize them for usage as HTML tag attributes. The code in the last line shows output as HTML tag attributes that are not being escaped. To protest against the moderators of the WordPress Support Forum’s, the experts decided to disclose the flaw and to share the proof-of-concept code.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this week’s podcast (#124): we speak with French security researcher Baptiste Robert about research on the social media accounts pushing the french "Yellow Vest" protests. Part 1: the Twitter bots pumping up French Protests? Now similar protests have popped up in Belgium and other neighboring countries. What is fueling them?

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Over five thousand women from Harlem and the East Side descended upon City Hall in 1917 to protest the draft, as pictured below in this photo from the Keeping Peace: Pacifist Activity on the Home Front collection. One of the most moving stories I found is the film footage from the Veteran Activists: The Bonus Army Protests of 1932 collection.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2018

During the Dakota Access Pipeline stand-off, Morton County public information issued a release alleging that protesters doxed a Bismarck Police officer, releasing his date of birth and home address. Bottom line: You should act like the bad guys are out to get you, because they are.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. And so we kind of started just like musing, you know, over a beer of like, well, what other networks How could you set something up? You click that thing with some wire cutters. You just pull it right off and you have a smart meter.

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