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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. It definitely had an effect on me. Definitely.

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

I am perfectly aware that such a division could just be indicative, as a matter of fact, is not a strict division between timing groups, it’s really hard to give a strong and strict attribution (at least in my personal point of view) and very often it’s definitely not “black and white”. group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2.

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University, Professional Certification or Direct Experience?

Security Affairs

So the knowledge is the focus and understanding what knowledge means could definitely help us to improve our teaching processes. Moreover Alice is definitely not sure 100% the countermeasures she adopted will be enough strong to defeat the upcoming cyber attack. The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link].

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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

This is not going to be a full path analysis so If you are interested in a more complete one, including dissection steps on final payloads, please refer to some of my previous analysis ( HERE , HERE , HERE ) or to Yoroi’s Blog. If you are interested on follow a full detailed analysis path, please take a look to Yoroi’s Blog.

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Leveraging IBM Cloud for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads

IBM Big Data Hub

Electronic design automation (EDA) is a market segment consisting of software, hardware and services with the goal of assisting in the definition, planning, design, implementation, verification and subsequent manufacturing of semiconductor devices (or chips). The primary providers of this service are semiconductor foundries or fabs.

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From Targeted Attack to Untargeted Attack

Security Affairs

For example a targeted attack might address Naval industry ( MartyMcFly example is definitely a great example) or USA companies ( Botnet Against USA, Canada and Italy is another great example) and are mainly built focusing specific target sectors. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Cyber is Cyber is Cyber

Lenny Zeltser

Computer security, perhaps? This might be because the industry continues to embrace the lexicon used in government and military circles, where cyber reigns supreme. If you’re in the business of safeguarding data and the systems that process it, what do you call your profession? Are you in cybersecurity? Information security?