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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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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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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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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

In order to follow the required steps – before getting into powershell encoded payload – (I will call it: stage2) the native Microsoft Office debugger would definitely help you. The used variable holds a Base64 representation of encrypted data. Even in this case the transmitted content is a Base64 representation of encrypted data.

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

Security Affairs

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. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

We have summarised the key compliance obligations under the PIPL below, with new obligations in bold for ease of reference: Relevant Laws/Regulations The PIPL becomes the primary, national-level law governing processing of personal information, but does not replace the existing data privacy framework.