March 29, 2023

Grateful to @IISS_org for the opportunity to share some thoughts around the success of Ukraine’s cyber defense. At this stage of the war, Ukraine has decisively won the adaptation battle in cyberspace.

iiss.org/blogs/research…

— Dan Black (@DanWBlack)
2:23 PM • Mar 28, 2023

funny that we produced exactly one generation of people who can understand computers

— neoludic (@paleoludic)
1:00 PM • Mar 28, 2023

In 2018, this sophisticated bug was found inside a CryptoPhone used by WikiLeaks in London, around the time of the Snowden Revelations. In this article we analyse the bug:

— CryptoMuseum (@cryptomuseum)
12:10 PM • Mar 28, 2023

Senate Bill 686, The Restrict Act, wants to put you in jail for 20 years for using a VPN for using a website or app is operated by a “foreign adversaries.” These are the foreign adversaries btw

— Lolo (@LolOverruled)
11:31 PM • Mar 27, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried directed $40M in cryptocurrencies to one or more 🇨🇳 government officials in order to influence them to unfreeze $1B worth of assets in FTX sister firm Alameda Research’s trading accounts on two of China’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan)
3:10 PM • Mar 28, 2023

1/ Various russian Telegram channels share a video that allegedly shows Ukrainians stopping a car with a woman and a child (the child is not seen), engaging in a verbal alteration, and then shooting at the car. This looks like a staged video, for the following reasons:

— Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA)
6:03 PM • Mar 27, 2023

The story takes an unexpected turn. Russian famous telegram channel, with over 300,000 subscribers, has admitted that the video is fake:
"The video is fake, our crooked exercise. In conducting such information operations, there is still much for us to learn and improve upon."

— Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA)
10:09 PM • Mar 27, 2023

let me taste the lab-grown woolly mammoth meatball, cowards semafor.com/article/03/28/…

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson)
7:13 PM • Mar 28, 2023

Handy dictionary at #realworldcrypto

— Martin R. Albrecht (@martinralbrecht)
5:04 AM • Mar 28, 2023

If you want to read more about problems with this kind of forensic image analysis, might I recommend ...

— Ryan Gabrielson (@ryangabrielson)
9:41 PM • Mar 23, 2023

Forensic scientists have estimated perps' heights in crime scene photos for generations. They contributed to countless prison sentences. In a new study by Hany Farid and @SBarrington_, the experts' results were inaccurate and erratic.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

— Ryan Gabrielson (@ryangabrielson)
9:41 PM • Mar 23, 2023

"Exploitation of CVE-2023-23397 leaves very few forensic artifacts to discover in traditional endpoint forensic analysis"

— Ryan Naraine (@ryanaraine)
3:06 PM • Mar 28, 2023

After hacking into the email of a Russian airforce colonel, the hackers, posing as an officer in the unit, then convinced the colonel’s wife to coordinate photos of all of the unit’s wives posing in uniform jackets showing all medals. This revealed names and service details

— Michael Bond (@HelloMrBond)
12:51 PM • Mar 28, 2023

Just published a new post in my "Writing a debugger from scratch in Rust" series! In this one, we implement some basic memory commands for reading bytes and strings from the target process.

timdbg.com/posts/writing-…

— Tim Misiak (@timmisiak)
5:38 PM • Mar 28, 2023

It’s always “we live longer our retirement age should be higher” and never “our productivity per hour is multiplying we should retire earlier”

— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov)
5:18 AM • Mar 29, 2023

Challenge 1: What is a good feedback in hardware? Branch coverage not meaningful.

Challenge 2: what are good mutators?

Challenge 3: How to deal with this extremely slow execs per second?

Check out HeteroFuzz [FSE'21]:
web.cs.ucla.edu/~wangjiyuan/re…

— Marcel Böhme👨‍🔬 (@mboehme_)
8:34 AM • Mar 29, 2023

ChatGPT Less Convincing Than Human Social Engineers in Phishing Attacks bit.ly/3LW8gQl<<< Cool research by @hoxhunt

— cje (@caseyjohnellis)
8:10 AM • Mar 29, 2023