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In recent cybersecurity news, a significant data breach at La Poste subsidiary Maileva has affected 22 million individuals in France, exposing sensitive personal information. Additionally, a secret stealer malware targeting GitHub repositories was reported, highlighting the ongoing risks in software development environments. The compromise of the Claude Code extension was linked to a stolen access key from the Fireworks AI platform, illustrating the dangers of credential exposure. Overall, attackers are shifting focus beyond traditional vulnerabilities, increasingly targeting user credentials and access keys to exploit software and services. This trend emphasizes the need for enhanced security measures and awareness in both corporate and individual contexts.
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Trio charged with fraud and money laundering
On average, victims face bill of over $6m
Originally published on October 6, 2021 TL;DR: Version 5.0.1 of osquery, a cross-platform, open-source endpoint visibility agent, is now available. This release is an exciting milestone for the project, as it introduces an EndpointSecurity-based process events table for macOS. Read on to learn how w...
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Originally published August 11, 2021 TL;DR: These simpler, step-by-step methods equip you to apply BPF tracing technology to real-word problems—no specialized tools or libraries required. BPF, a tracing technology in the Linux kernel for network stack tracing, has become popular recently thanks to n...
Until more organizations act on the severity of the threat, “consistent attacks are expected"
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Originally published August 3, 2021 During my Trail of Bits winternship and springternship, I had the pleasure of working with Suha Hussain and Jim Miller on PrivacyRaven, a Python-based tool for testing deep-learning frameworks against a plethora of privacy attacks. I worked on improving PrivacyRav...
Claim alleging Google unlawfully tracked iPhone users’ personal data is rejected by UK’s Supreme Court
Too much of what goes on in the digital space is unaccountable and insecure, according to Marrietje Schaake
Originally published May 20, 2021 This blog post introduces Dylint, a tool for loading Rust linting rules (or “lints”) from dynamic libraries. Dylint makes it easy for developers to maintain their own personal lint collections. Previously, the simplest way to write a new Rust lint was to fork Clippy...
The Black Hat Europe 2021 session discussed the state of cybersecurity and why zero trust is crucial
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Originally published May 10, 2021 While learning how to write multithreaded code in Java or C++ can make computer science students reconsider their career choices, calling a function asynchronously in Go is just a matter of prefixing a function call with the go keyword. However, writing concurrent G...
Research warns of complacency among senior IT decision-makers
Tabletop exercise aimed at preventing spread of terror content online
Cybersecurity breaches follow common patterns and stages - from an initial Beachhead to accomplishing Objectives.
This video gives an overview of the anatomy of a compromise:
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