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

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ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4

eSecurity Planet

Here’s a look at some of those issues — including some that came up at this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. The breach was due to a bug in the Redis open source library, but OpenAI quickly fixed the problem. This is not for malicious purposes; in fact, it is meant to prevent malicious files from accessing my files.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

These are people who could also be attending a Salesforce conference. Okay, maybe not a Salesforce conference, but you get the idea. Simultaneously, self taught, it's a bunch, but also sharing information of his own history of, you know, BBs is forward to conferences and forums and to a certain extent Twitter is still.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. So it's typically computer to computer communication.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: it's a little bit of a borrowed term right inside of software there are API's that you call, you know, in the libraries and stuff to move things around, and we've moved it out into the application space as kind of a way to go get data, a way to communicate between two systems. So it's typically computer to computer communication.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

ForAllSecure

Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. It's almost always like that with conferences and I totally get it right. The phone key then understands that message and encrypts it back to the sender to the vehicle with that secret key, the car and the phone have that challenge token and only then the car would unlock.

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Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

Krebs on Security

Known as “original gangster” or “OG” accounts, short-character profile names confer a measure of status and wealth in certain online communities, and such accounts can often fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the underground. “I don’t care,” O’Connor told The Times.

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