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August 20, 2024

August 20, 2024

August 20, 2024

The time has come, and with it your reading material for the week.

Phrack #71 is officially released ONLINE! Let us know what you think!https://t.co/BRnK9lnGjI pic.twitter.com/jVHd7kurE5

— Phrack Zine (@phrack) August 19, 2024

http://phrack.org/issues/71/1.html


Windows API Function Cheat Sheet by @7etsuo: https://t.co/aWjrz3j656

— ringzerø.training && @ringzer0@infosec.exchange (@_ringzer0) August 20, 2024


Iranian nuclear scientist in 2009: https://t.co/hWLk0FniT3

— skooks (@skooookum) August 20, 2024


Been trying to catch up on all the research coming out of Vegas this month.

Saw this TechCrunch article by @zackwhittaker that I think is a good list: pic.twitter.com/6lhiTDj6rU

— Matt Johansen (@mattjay) August 19, 2024

The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024 | TechCrunch

Here is a look back at the top security research from the annual hacker conferences, Black Hat and Def Con 2024.


One young man tried to spy on a NATO base.

Another, nicknamed 'The Kid' for his youthful looks, went to Kyiv to commit arson. Both failed.

But they had been hired by Russian agents. And their cases, though a bit tragicomic, shed light on a bigger story.https://t.co/PzvdWe63JC

— Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (@OCCRP) August 20, 2024


This is a thorough report from @RANDCorporation on historical analogues to inform AI governance. The section on encryption mirrors what I’ve been communicating to policy makers and publicly for over a year now. Like cryptography, AI + cyber is a fundamentally dual use technology.… https://t.co/U0B4Uki1gi pic.twitter.com/c62Fa5DrH9

— chrisrohlf (@chrisrohlf) August 19, 2024


Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets (https://t.co/1dm2oqrz54) is such a gem, I'm halfway through but I love everything in it so far.

— Piotr Sarna (@sarna_dev) August 19, 2024


Best Laid Plans: Iranian threat actor TA453 Targets Religious Figure with Fake Podcast Invite Delivering New BlackSmith Malware Toolset https://t.co/rru4USxRcI @proofpoint

— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) August 20, 2024


In our upcoming OOPSLA paper (https://t.co/zAC0ZsC5YT), we used LLM together with static analysis to find bugs in the Linux kernel and other targets. We had the same observation that LLM works the best in a selective & targeted fashion, when paired with static analysis.

— Zhiyun Qian (@pkqzy888) August 9, 2024


OBS heap overflow vulnerability in parsing GIF image: https://t.co/Zf7InKR9Y1

— 1ce0ear (@1ce0ear) August 19, 2024


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