Userland Rootkits are Lame
Many people may not know this, but fifteen…twenty years ago I knew a thing or two about rootkit development. I wrote detection software for a few years as...
June 9, 2022
A userland rootkit is pretty weak. There are some easy ways to detect it. The simplest is to just use a staticky linked binary, like busybox, rather than the...
June 8, 2022
On June 5 Russians took over a streaming TV service in Ukraine and for ten minutes replaced the England v Wales football match with Russian propaganda. Cyber...
June 7, 2022
Probably the big article of the day, this one on CIA hacking. The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge | The New Yorker A hot-headed coder is accused of...
June 6, 2022
Wow Runa Sandvik @runasandAnne-Elisabeth Hagen, wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen, disappeared without a trace from her home near Oslo on 31 October...
June 5, 2022
JF Bastien @jfbastienI often think about this (now deleted) @johnregehr tweet: C is awesome because it defers problems to runtime, at which point people...
June 4, 2022
Amazing read. Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91The Russian 35th army, transferred from Far East and stationed in Izyum, is successfully destroyed by its own army command...
June 3, 2022
The Folina 0day was used to attack Russia and Belarus, based on the location where the ITW samples were uploaded. It is interesting that a clearly...
June 2, 2022
Huge but very confusing news. This raises more questions than it answers. What did they do? When? Where? Who else knew about it? Very very interesting but...
Foghorn: Signals Through the Fog of War
Ukraine Survives and Thrives Russia’s first wave of destructive cyber effects operations against Ukraine were effective. They targeted and disabled Ukrainian...
June 1, 2022
James Vincent @jjvincentI’m sorry but I couldn’t resist: since I’ve just written a whole book on the subject, I want to talk about the history of anti-metric...
May 31, 2022
If you read nothing else, read this. It is epic, brutal, and amazing. Hard Drive Apologizes to Elon Musk for Dunking on Him Too Hard Hard Drive would like to...
May 30, 2022
Polish LARPers play contemporary Americans. ✨𝖇𝖊𝖓✨ @PenBercifieldIn Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans. Here they are...
May 29, 2022
Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraesThere are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-...
May 28, 2022
Belgium seems to want to ban Signal. Matthew Green @matthew_d_greenBelgium’s new data retention laws might result in a Signal ban. edri.orgBelgium wants to...
May 27, 2022
I was on a Ukrainian cyber security podcast Sunday 22nd. It was a great discussion and a few interesting things came up. Check it out at No Name Podcast: No...
May 26, 2022
Russian hackers and Brexit. Shane Huntley @ShaneHuntleyArticle on latest Russian efforts. The "English Coop" website was linked to what the Google knew as...
May 25, 2022
An airline in India is suffering a ransomware attack. The interesting thing is that passengers trapped on planes that cant take off are tweeting from the...
May 24, 2022
Crypto. Scam. Fraud. Fascinating case of what to do when a smart contract is exploited. Is it fraud, or just a savvy investor taking advantage of an...
May 23, 2022
One of 40 Russian delegates to the UN resigned because he’s ashamed of his country. He posted a resignation paper on his LinkedIn. Hillel Neuer...
