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August 16, 2023

August 16, 2023

August 16, 2023

Contains all the material from the DEF CON 31 workshop "(In)direct Syscalls: A Journey from High to Low".https://t.co/lJrz5lvX5l

— Nicolas Krassas (@Dinosn) August 15, 2023

“Vice has repeatedly blocked news stories that could offend the Saudi government…. The media company recently signed a lucrative partnership deal with the MBC Group, a media company controlled by the Saudi government, to establish a joint venture” https://t.co/aH1mFtytSb

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) August 15, 2023

DefCon souvenir https://t.co/vSt7PvieVj

— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) August 15, 2023

I’m not convinced of this explanation. There are plenty of good reasons to avoid windows other than EDR.

I love it - attackers stick to the hardened appliances and avoid the chaotic Windows workstations because they feel safer there https://t.co/nlWv3zDHgY

— Florian Roth @ 🎰 (@cyb3rops) August 15, 2023

Yes. Baker’s guild endowed a pew with “bread is the stuff of life.” Butcher’s guild endowed a pew with “man cannot live on bread alone” lol pic.twitter.com/i8ZBYuI9zb

— crisp (@MooseAdjacent) August 15, 2023

https://t.co/yNaHnXdINM

— John Hultquist🌻 (@JohnHultquist) August 15, 2023

Lazarus Group Launches First Open Source Supply Chain Attacks Targeting Crypto Sector.
They would invite the target to collaborate on a GitHub repository, containing malicious npm package dependencies which would then be used to compromise the victim.https://t.co/QcufcNRmDP
NPM… pic.twitter.com/QwikWdgwMs

— blackorbird (@blackorbird) August 15, 2023

Every trip to @Defcon - the massive annual hacker-con in Las Vegas - is a delight. Partly it's the familiar - seeing old friends, getting updates on hacks of years gone by. But mostly, it's the surprises, the things you never anticipated. Defcon never fails to surprise.

1/ pic.twitter.com/xckvzAMrUP

— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@doctorow) August 14, 2023

Setting aside that yes, that's the same person, this community note is the most Twitter thing to ever exist on Twitter pic.twitter.com/Wuom3KxYTx

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 15, 2023

Created a GitHub repo to share some debugging concepts that I believe is important to know for those that are interested in debugging and want to get started. Lots of practical examples such as Interpreting call stacks, deadlocks, Windows APIs, etc. https://t.co/egsACcEQqO

— H (@DebugPrivilege) August 15, 2023

Wow, #defcon has gone from "Spot the fed" to, today, "Sorry, this is a private party for government and military only" over in packet capture village.

— Matt Linton (@0xMatt) August 12, 2023

oh yeah I'd been wondering what had happened to Naomi Wu; thanks to @HackingButLegal for this update: https://t.co/dJM4l03bCa

— egallager@treehouse.systems (@cooljeanius) August 16, 2023

Error #1 : 🤦🏻

“Talent from Goldman Sachs, KKR and Blackstone will help determine how $39 billion in semiconductor chip subsidies are allocated”
https://t.co/kwRvAE35E1

— Pushkar Ranade (@magicsilicon) August 16, 2023

BBC News - World War Two aerial photos opened to public for first timehttps://t.co/UyqOepol2v

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) August 16, 2023

ARTful: a library for dynamically modifying the Android Runtime #MobileSecurity #AndroidSecurity by @lauriewired https://t.co/pEJbSYv3Z8

— Mobile Security (@mobilesecurity_) August 15, 2023

For those of you who missed the main detail of this: toggling Bluetooth on/off via iOS Control Center doesn’t actually disable Bluetooth completely. It still allows packets which do not require pairing to come through.

That was what you saw all weekend at Defcon. https://t.co/xhICzXyYvk

— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) August 15, 2023

the weirdest element of this is that his dad’s mate had a child sized hitler uniform lying around https://t.co/tlNK2FHeSR

— milo edwards (@Milo_Edwards) August 16, 2023

his shrank in the wash

— Callum (@DarkWolfized) August 16, 2023


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