December 23-24, 2022
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US Army official job titles of cybersecurity roles. They even released numbers of people assigned to specific duties, like offensive tasks? Huh. gao.gov/assets/gao-23-…
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Germany has arrested a Russian spy who was operating in its foreign intelligence agency, the BND, for years. He’s been arrested and the offices of the BND searched. It appears to have been a major security breach. The agent has been charged with treason
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Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)
https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu/-
The French Boirault Machine from WW1, flagrantly abusing the definitional boundaries of a tracked vehicle. The later v2 had an armoured structure, but neither took off on account of little to no steering, slow, fragile, and generally mad/rubbish.
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Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅
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PyPI malware creators are starting to employ Anti-Debug techniques
Python Malware Starting to Employ Anti-Debug Techniques
First time anti-debug techniques are discovered in PyPI malware. Read how these techniques are implemented, including analysis and tips from JFrog Security Research.
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It's ridiculious that neither the Linux kernel devs or @thezdi requested CVE for ZDI-22-1690. Thanks to Marcus Meissner for actually caring.
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Japan going full anime
令和5年度の防衛予算の概要（mod.go.jp/j/yosan/yosan_…）から気になるのを少しだけ。
レールガンのイメージきましたよ！ ゲームでよく見る感じそのままだねw 予算額も160億円と相当なので力の入れようを感じる。
従来のミサイル主体の防衛では費用対効果が悪いので新技術で大幅な改善に期待したい。
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Open, broadly capable, conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and citations of sources.
Search and chat of the future: you.com/search?q=what+…
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There's nothing like the joy on a kid's face when he first sees the PlayStation box containing the socks I got him for Christmas.
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I wrote about the “Dick’s Sporting Goods” Yeti cooler scam, why it has slipped past Google’s most sophisticated machine learning tools, and what it means for the future of email spam https://www.wired.com/story/email-scam-dicks-sporting-goods-yeti-cooler/
Lauren Goode: "I wrote about the “Dick’s Sporting Goods” Yeti co…" - Mastodon
I wrote about the “Dick’s Sporting Goods” Yeti cooler scam, why it has slipped past Google’s most sophisticated machine learning tools, and what it means for the future of email spam https://www.wired.com/story/email-scam-dicks-sporting-goods-yeti-cooler/
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TikTok banned on government devices until after the pass spending bill
I guess this is related to the viral ‘pork barrel budget allocation challenge’?
Congress passes spending bill with TikTok ban on government devices
Congress passed a large spending package that includes a bill banning TikTok from being used on government devices and new filing fees for mergers.
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Reverse engineering TikTok VM obfuscation
Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) | nullpt.rs
TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
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On Sunday the 18th, four of my wallets were compromised. The losses are not significant.
Their seeds were kept, encrypted, in my lastpass vault, behind a 16 character password using all character types.