December 20, 2023
December 20, 2023
Follow-up on December 19th 2023,
Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Disrupts Prolific ALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware Variant | United States Department of Justice
The Justice Department announced today a disruption campaign against the Blackcat ransomware group — also known as ALPHV or Noberus — that has targeted the computer networks of more than 1,000 victims and caused harm around the world since its inception, including networks that support U.S. critical infrastructure.
A happy ending to those stolen Bored Ape NTFs from over the weekend...... one of the founders of BAYC paid the bounty to the hackers to have them all returned https://t.co/WFPlUosKrf
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 19, 2023
a cannibal and an anthropologist discuss World War 1 pic.twitter.com/7Yc74PDANP
— sean (@DilettanteryPod) June 9, 2022
Get out and vote!!! pic.twitter.com/hXJR69abVN
— Sam Weinberg (@SAMUELJWEINBERG) November 8, 2022
An actually good prediction about the future. Pure analysis and deductive reasoning.
I thought this was interesting: a newspaper article from February 1924 predicting that the arrival of sound in movies would end the careers of many stars. This was three and a half years before the release of The Jazz Singer pic.twitter.com/wfZt3pPFAg
— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) December 20, 2023
https://x.com/switch_d/status/1737430767104299228
New project from stealth
GitHub - stealth/tensor-pwn: AI fun
AI fun. Contribute to stealth/tensor-pwn development by creating an account on GitHub.
Just accepted at @ICSEconf. We develop methods to *predict* the coverage rate of a greybox fuzzer.
— Marcel Böhme👨🔬 (@mboehme_) December 20, 2023
We handle challenges like capturing coverage only in 15min intervals and the adaptive change in coverage rate in the greybox setting.
Data, analysis, and preprint coming soon. https://t.co/kuTg9FJRCD
Predicting fuzzing trajectory through coverage rate for:
— Danushka Liyanage (@danuliyanage_) December 20, 2023
1. Assessing resource requirements at a specified coverage rate threshold.
2. Determining achievable coverage rate with available resources.
Check out our work at @ICSEconf 😎
Congrats @nim_gnoes_eel, @mboehme_ , @klainfo pic.twitter.com/d9XsYGdHcB
We speak to @gannimo and Atri Bhattacharyya about SecureCells - repurposing the virtual address space to achieve compartmentalization...https://t.co/GFAQ2vYXeWhttps://t.co/p7p6FHzjRC
— EPFL Ecocloud (@epflecocloud) December 20, 2023
Big one, and many more coming that are discovering the Citrix bleed vuln used in their environment https://t.co/PcizsMW2XR
— Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) December 19, 2023
Comcast has reported a security breach impacting 35,879,455 Xfinity customers. It is reported the breach was discovered December 6th, 2023 with a suspected initial breach date of mid-October, 2023.
— vx-underground (@vxunderground) December 19, 2023
Information via @BrettCallow pic.twitter.com/jXRqvxjqgt
As we wrap up 2023, let's take a look back at the different topics we covered in our technical #blog this year.https://t.co/L9ASqSsTyW
— HN Security (@hnsec) December 20, 2023
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Poland Finds 14 Foreigners Guilty of Spying for Russia - The Moscow Times
A Polish court on Tuesday convicted 14 citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine for planning to carry out acts of sabotage on behalf of Moscow.
From your equanimous account: rollout of 3G provides a possibility of comparing areas with and without it, and this study found an effect on test scores. https://t.co/LPc1unHU5R
— Alberto Acerbi (@acerbialberto) December 20, 2023
With the release of PISA 2022, the long-standing global decline in PISA scores has many of you asking: is it the phones?
— Sam Stemper (@samstemper) December 19, 2023
Ronak Jain and I have a new working paper that tries to shed some light on the question.
Details below… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Qt8JMbci5S
Third-person effect (thinking that *other* people are more impacted by media than ourself) correlates with preference for platform-directed moderation settings (VS personal moderation settings) in social media.https://t.co/lV7WaC4M6x
— Alberto Acerbi (@acerbialberto) December 20, 2023
Finally wrote a book -- well, an eBook!
— Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac) October 11, 2023
Called: The hacker's guide to securing your organization
All my security recommendations based on my hacking expertise (how you can stop me in the act).
Partnered with @Bitwarden to write this free resource for you!https://t.co/Iirk8J4yok pic.twitter.com/3uIpipRZ4f
This escape pipe with compass was a covert WWII tool designed by MI9, disguised as a tobacco pipe, to ingeniously conceal a hidden compass.
— Helen Fry | WWII Historian (@DrHelenFry) December 19, 2023
This simple device aided Allied POWs in basic navigation during daring escapes from enemy prison camps. pic.twitter.com/Jbtm1yG3w7
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