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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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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. How Does Application Security Work? What Are the Types of Application Security?

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

Security Affairs

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. Used tools. The first tool we are going to use is as, the GNU compiler, which takes as input an assembly file and it returns its binary representation. How the PC boot process works ? Actually the boot process is super 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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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans?

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Finding the treasure in governement information management

CILIP

He gives an example from his early days at the Department for the Environment: “I remember in April 1986, I was on the library enquiry desk. Decades later his library role has shifted into managing across the full gamut of KIM-related disciplines, but he is still supporting the Government’s information needs in crises.