A look at the Defence news 29 January – 4 February
The Netherlands supports Jordan with medical supplies
Month: February 2024
Binary type inference in Ghidra
By Ian Smith Trail of Bits is releasing BTIGhidra, a Ghidra extension that helps reverse engineers by inferring type information from binaries. The analysis is inter-procedural, propagating and resolving type constraints between functions while consuming user input to recover additional type information. This refined type information produces more idiomatic decompilation, enhancing reverse engineering comprehension. The […]
Ransomware Payments Hit $1bn All-Time High in 2023
Chainalysis monitoring of blockchain transactions reveals ransomware payments hit a record $1bn in 2023
Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023
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.
Akamai Named an Overall Leader for Zero Trust Network Access
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2/7/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
2/7/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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1. Opinion | What a Russian and Ukrainian general agree on: This battlespace is differe…
Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros
The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including a critical bug that could pave the way for remote code execution under specific circumstances.
Tracked as CVE-2023-40547 (CVSS score: 9.8), …
AnyDesk System Breach Raises Concerns Among MSP Users
AnyDesk confirmed recently that a cyberattack has affected their product systems. The hackers accessed the source code and private code signing keys. Initially, the 170,000 customers remote access software company claimed an unplanned maintenance to ex…
2054, Part III: The Singularity
“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.
What a future without browser cookies looks like
Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you’re being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That’s because…