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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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else 2.24: “This is how revolutions begin”

John Battelle's Searchblog

Comcast is definitely throttling Netflix, and it’s infuriating. Matt Vukas tries to parse what’s going on with Comcast’s alleged throttling of Netflix traffic, playing around with encrypted VPN that masks the video traffic, and pinging the traceroute to see where is packets are coming from.

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Aussie Telcos are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics

Troy Hunt

I'm like yo my credit cards and financial information your entering into this internet system isn't even fully encrypted. (Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively).

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link. The growth has been driven by the free and easy availability of certificates, largely due to the emergence of Let's Encrypt in 2016.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

I don't know maybe purple team a bit, I played kind of both sides of the fence but yeah definitely do a lot of adversarial inspection of, you know, any kind of traffic endpoints that I find that our customers. Vamosi: Okay, even with this technical definition API's may still be a little hard to conceptualize. Well, it turns out a lot.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

I don't know maybe purple team a bit, I played kind of both sides of the fence but yeah definitely do a lot of adversarial inspection of, you know, any kind of traffic endpoints that I find that our customers. Vamosi: Okay, even with this technical definition API's may still be a little hard to conceptualize. Well, it turns out a lot.

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How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data

Troy Hunt

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). To use the definition of the infamous Missouri governor who recently attempt to prosecute a journalist for pressing F12 , everyone who used those features inadvertently became a hacker.