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Keeping up with Quantum Technology | Quantum Computing

Everteam

While everyone is digging deep into the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and many other new digital transformation phenomena, Quantum Computing has been transformed from theory to reality. Let’s move to how it’s related to computers. What is Quantum Computing? A Quick Quantum look. Too much physics?

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I thought about it a lot before agreeing. It definitely had an effect on me.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

We talked at length about many issues, including supply chain security, and I asked Sager whether he’d heard anything about rumors that Supermicro — a high tech firm in San Jose, Calif. Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. National Security Agency.

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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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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

While I was thinking about how to answer to such questions I received a MalSpam with a Microsoft Office document attached by sheer coincidence, so I decided to write a little bit on it. The used variable holds a Base64 representation of encrypted data. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Malware researcher reverse engineered a threat that went undetected for at least 2 years

Security Affairs

The full path took me about hours work and the sample covers many obfuscation steps and implementation languages. In this stage the JavaScript is loading an encrypted content from the original JAR, using a KEY decrypts such a content and finally loads it (Dynamic Class Loader) on memory in order to fire it up as a new Java code.

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What is Malware? Definition, Purpose & Common Protections

eSecurity Planet

Anyone who has used a computer for any significant length of time has probably at least heard of malware. Want to Learn More About Malware? Activation: The ransomware begins encrypting sensitive files or locking down the system. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible.