I wanted my first foray into reverse engineering to cover a malware sample from beginning to end – from initial download to the final payload. As I am just getting started on the RE learning journey, I also wanted to find a sample which wasn’t too difficult. Lucky for me, it has been the season…
Today we are standing with NPR and suspending our institutional postings to Twitter, including all news and music accounts: CPR News, KRCC, Denverite, CPR Classical and Indie 102.3. Source: CPR is independent journalism
Mid-March of this year saw the very first EverythingOpen conference, held in Naarm/Melbourne at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre. Unfortunately, I had some PhD commitments, and only managed to get there for the conference dinner, but was able to catch up afterwards via the conference videos – and this blog post is a recap…
An estimated one million WordPress websites have been compromised during a long-lasting campaign that exploits “all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities” to inject a Linux backdoor that researchers named Balad Injector.The campaign has been running since 2017 and aims mostly to redirect to fake tech support pages, fraudulent lottery wins, and push…
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books…
Scientists from Copenhagen Business School conducted an experiment in which 375 participants were asked to differentiate between real and fake social media profiles. The fake accounts were created and maintained by some of the latest AI technology. The ensuing results were eye-opening. Subjects largely could not tell the difference between artificially generated fake Twitter accounts…