January 5, 2024
January 5, 2024
Decompiling History
A better history of decompilation, curtesy of Dr Eugene Spafford. This includes work done since the 1960s, and is really quite exciting to see. We usually think of hacking tools as being unique areas of work when really in many cases there’s extensive research stretching back decades.
https://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/HistoryOfDecompilation1.htmlTo help inform debate about the intelligence issues raised by the 7th October 2023 attacks in Israel, we have made a collection of articles on Israeli, HAMAS, and Hezbollah intelligence available free of charge.
— Jrnl Intel & Nat Sec (@IntelNatSecJnl) January 4, 2024
This special collection is available at:https://t.co/otrXpPVaHD
Some remarks and observations considering the media output of The Islamic State on January 4, 2024
— Pieter Van Ostaeyen (@p_vanostaeyen) January 4, 2024
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Stable diffusion created a verification image of someone doing their KYC for a bank or similar.
— Aadit Sheth (@aaditsh) January 4, 2024
This is so crazy! pic.twitter.com/OitmoXnz1e
AI will impact Know-Your-Customer identity verification processes. As AI makes it easier & cheaper to impersonate someone’s likeness and identity markers (often found in a breach) it will become simpler for attackers to takeover accounts and steal money, data, impact brands, etc. https://t.co/ZfKwiHiLcj
— Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac) January 4, 2024
I released Cosmopolitan v3.2 today featuring FreeBSD ARM support, bug fixes to DNS / ZIP / NixOS, and new APE loader hacks are possible. https://t.co/xkge36gtQC
— Justine Tunney (@JustineTunney) January 5, 2024
I think the MS signing keys breach was the most consequential event, because it provided the first public, in-the-wild, unignorable proof that the big three cloud giants are still hardly immune from serious compromise.
— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) December 27, 2023
But the MoveIT exploit wave disturbed me more. https://t.co/aVioR6wTVp
What was the most upsetting event in cyber security this year?
— Florian Roth (@cyb3rops) December 27, 2023
I didn’t know they were keeping track of this? pic.twitter.com/UP394wfqKK
— Dan White (@atdanwhite) January 4, 2024
If Anubis tried to weigh my heart to pass judgment on my eternal soul I would chase that dog with a vacuum cleaner
— I'm nice and normal (@InternetHippo) January 4, 2024
Google phasing out "3rd-party cookies" from the Chrome browser. Below is my analysis of the consequences of the new system for data protection. We are talking about a market worth $600 billion. Chrome advertises it as "tracking protection". https://t.co/zRvm4TYsxS https://t.co/O1U8mq6JRB pic.twitter.com/FtinFiydOb
— Lukasz Olejnik, Ph.D, LL.M (@lukOlejnik) January 5, 2024
Niklaus Wirth @ETH_en @CSatETH died on January 1st. Pascal, a programming language he designed, guided my journey into computer science and the discussions with him helped shape my career. RIP https://t.co/XJRrfroIcY
— Mathias Payer (@gannimo) January 5, 2024