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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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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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Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

Krebs on Security

“can u edit that comment out, @tankska is a gaming twitter of mine and i dont want it to be on ogu :D’,” lol wrote. ” Chaewon responds in the affirmative, and asks the other user to share his account name on Wickr , an encrypted online messaging app that automatically deletes messages after a few days.

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

It was a massive year for encrypted web communications and people have really eaten up material on it. Plus, I reckon I also scrubbed up alright given my usual level of presentiveness (my 8-year old son's word, not mine!) The "Hold My Beer" post was probably the most fun (or is that "frightening"?)

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Sometimes it can be really complex DLLs and they call that hijacking or DLL hijacking and what they'll do is they'll use a legitimate program that depends on a library, bring their malicious library with them and it gets sometimes side loaded. Unless you're specifically looking for messages within images.