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The Hidden Injustice of Cyberattacks

By Nicole Tisdale — February 12th 2024 at 13:00
Cyberattacks and criminal scams can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately impacted and lack the support to better protect themselves.
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2054, Part VI: Standoff at Arlington

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 12th 2024 at 11:00
“This eruption of violence had been brewing for years, through successive economic collapses, pandemics, and the utter dysfunction that had become American life.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

By Madison Goldberg — February 11th 2024 at 13:00
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.
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How 3 Million ‘Hacked’ Toothbrushes Became a Cyber Urban Legend

By Andy Greenberg, Dhruv Mehrotra — February 10th 2024 at 14:00
Plus: China’s Volt Typhoon hackers lurked in US systems for years, the Biden administration’s crackdown on spyware vendors ramps up, and a new pro-Beijing disinformation campaign gets exposed.
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2054, Part V: From Tokyo With Love

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 9th 2024 at 11:00
“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
☐ ☆ ✇ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

Distributed rate limiting, a new approach to prevent Bruteforce, DDOS, Credential Stuffing, etc.

By /u/gitcommitshow — February 9th 2024 at 06:11
  • Open Source code - https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
  • Architecture
  • How is it different than a simple Firewall and API Gateway - This new approach separates rate limit infrastructure from application code and integrates using SDK. This helps with distributed architecture and makes it resilient to attacks at scale that could have brought down the app because while allowing access to users who need to send a burst of traffic for legitimate usage.
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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

By Matt Burgess — February 8th 2024 at 17:55
In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great—and a Total Mess

By Matt Burgess — February 8th 2024 at 12:00
Passkeys are here to replace passwords. When they work, it’s a seamless vision of the future. But don’t ditch your old logins just yet.
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2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 8th 2024 at 11:00
“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023

By Andy Greenberg — February 7th 2024 at 14:00
After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis.
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2054, Part III: The Singularity

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 7th 2024 at 11:00
“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind of God.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

By Matt Burgess — February 6th 2024 at 16:53
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.
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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 6th 2024 at 11:00
“If molecules really were the new microchips, the promise of remote gene editing was that the body could be manipulated to upgrade itself.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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2054, Part I: Death of a President

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 5th 2024 at 11:00
“They had, quite swiftly, begun an algorithmic scrub of any narrative of the president suffering a health emergency, burying those stories.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

By Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra — February 3rd 2024 at 14:00
Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more.
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The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved

By Andy Greenberg — February 1st 2024 at 21:48
An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.
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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

By Andy Greenberg — February 1st 2024 at 17:30
A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.
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YouTube, Discord, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts — February 1st 2024 at 01:28
For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.
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Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024

By /u/pentesticals — January 31st 2024 at 20:54

Multiple vulns in Docker disclosed by Snyk Security Labs

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