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

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Device Security is Hard. Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. They're attractive targets.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. Importantly, modern institutional archives do not make it a practice of taking things, or blindly capturing online records, without first attempting to secure the rights to do so. Frustration all around.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Charity

ForAllSecure

This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop. You might not know any real hackers.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. How will organizations use so-called “vaccine passports” related to employees and customers and how will organizations secure their protected health information (PHI) in response to changing health directives?

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). The Sleuth Kit enables administrators to analyze file system data via a library of command-line tools for investing disk images.

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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools , exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.