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Russia wants its GRU illegal back (from Brazil) — fascinating new details here https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/rlP7Je/russland-hevder-avsloert-agent-er-heroinsmugler-ber-om-aa-faa-ham-utlevert

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Triton, a library for writing binary analysis tools. Looks pretty cool.

GitHub - JonathanSalwan/Triton: Triton is a dynamic binary analysis library. Build your own program analysis tools, automate your reverse engineering, perform software verification or just emulate code. · GitHub

Triton is a dynamic binary analysis library. Build your own program analysis tools, automate your reverse engineering, perform software verification or just emulate code. - JonathanSalwan/Triton

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Do not rug on me: Zero-dimensional Scam Detection

[2201.07220] Do not rug on me: Zero-dimensional Scam Detection

Uniswap, like other DEXs, has gained much attention this year because it is a non-custodial and publicly verifiable exchange that allows users to trade digital assets without trusted third parties. However, its simplicity and lack of regulation also makes it easy to execute initial coin offering scams by listing non-valuable tokens. This method of performing scams is known as rug pull, a phenomenon that already existed in traditional finance but has become more relevant in DeFi. Various projects...

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Ben McKenzie

@ben_mckenzie

You’re never gonna believe this, but someone appears to be committing crimes in broad daylight in crypto

Nov 12, 2022

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pwning.eth

@PwningEth

the slides app.ardrive.io/#/file/7c5e0ae… youtube.com/watch?v=TTLIEJ…

Nov 12, 2022

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Alberto Acerbi

@acerbialberto

...and, as we show here, given that reliable information is much more diffuse than misinformation, small negative effects (less trust to reliable news) have a much stronger impact than positive effects (less trust to misinformation).

Research note: Fighting misinformation or fighting for information? | HKS Misinformation Review

A wealth of interventions have been devised to reduce belief in fake news or the tendency to share such news. By contrast, interventions aimed at increasing trust in reliable news sources have received less attention. In this article, we show that, given the very limited prevalence of misinformation…

Nov 13, 2022

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PsyArXiv-bot

@PsyArXivBot

The Curse Worse Than the Disease? How the Media's Attention to Misinformation Decreases Trust

https://zpr.io/dRj2GY9HzN9e Nov 12, 2022

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Ken Shirriff

@kenshirriff

The Bendix Central Air Digital Computer (CADC) was introduced in 1955. It was a critical component of fighter planes, using tiny gears to compute parameters such as airspeed and altitude. It contained 46 synchros, 511 gears, 820 ball bearings, and a total of 2,781 major parts. 🧵

Nov 11, 2022

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Clare O'Neil MP

@ClareONeilMP

I have a message for all cybercriminals: Australia is fighting back. #Insiders

Nov 13, 2022

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Electrospaces

@electrospaces

Promo video of the #NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate (which has a Transformer-like logo):

Join the Mission to Prevent and Eradicate Cyberthreats

We Must Unify to Protect the Nation. Join the Mission to Prevent and Eradicate Cyberthreats. NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate.

Nov 13, 2022

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[email protected]

@0xdea

Look out! Divergent representations are everywhere! // by @trailofbits

Look out! Divergent representations are everywhere!

By Andreas Kellas Trail of Bits recently published a blog post about a signed integer overflow in certain versions of SQLite that can enable arbitrary code execution and result in a denial of servi…

Nov 13, 2022

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Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi

@brokep

When I was in my early 30s I was on the interpol most wanted list, so a bit surprised I didn't end up on the cover of Forbes.

Nov 13, 2022

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The exploitation in this CTF challenge is really neat. Well, I guess the vulnerability is clever and the exploitation method matches it.

Not going to include the whole thing, it’s long.

Have a go first, if you’re curious. Goal is to have the pythons script print “congrats”

Solution path here:

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