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  • Deep dive into hack against Iranian state TV yields wiper malware, other custom tools [iophk: Windows TCO]

    Researchers with Check Point, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company, published the findings Friday based on what it said were files and other forensic evidence connected to the hack. Iranian officials acknowledged the attack at the time, saying that “disruptions” also occurred on another television channel and two radio stations, and called the hack “complex.” The breach occurred the day before Iran began its multi-day celebration of the 1979 revolution.

  • US says Russian [crackers] breached multiple DOD contractors

    The US government said today that Russian state-sponsored threat actors have targeted and breached multiple defense contractors between January 2020 and February 2022.

    “Compromised entities have included CDCs [cleared defense contractors] supporting the US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, US Space Force, and DoD and Intelligence programs,” US officials said in a joint security alert published today by the NSA, CISA, and the FBI.

  • How this Windows bug can put data stored in your PC at risk

    A new bug discovered on Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 21H2 is leaving data of few users unprotected. The bug has been discovered by Rudy Ooms and he has revealed information about the bug in the Call4Cloud blog. As per the blog, the operating systems are leaving data on a disk even after a factory reset.

    This means the data stored on your PC may still be accessible even if you sell it or give it away after resetting. The blog suggests that the bug may be specifically files on OneDrive that are locally synced with the PC.

  • LibreSSL 3.5.0 Released

    We have released LibreSSL 3.5.0, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is a development release for the 3.5.x branch, and we appreciate additional testing and feedback before the final release coming soon with OpenBSD 7.1.

  • This Is the ‘Hacking’ Investigation Into Journalist Who Clicked ‘View Source’ on Government Website

    In another interview, police interrogated a computer scientist interviewed by Renaud. The officer who interviewed the computer scientist repeatedly asked if what Renaud did was "hacking."

    Throughout the investigation, it's obvious that Renaud did the best he could to warn the state government about the data exposure, and to limit the potential damage by not disclosing the existence of the vulnerability before it was patched. In the end, though, Renaud and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were put through a seemingly unpleasant criminal investigation for simply reporting the news.

LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released

  • [Undeadly] LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released

    There is a lot there which would be best to read in its entirety rather than attempting to summarize here. However, for the sake of emphatic repetition and encouragement from the community at large, this quote seems salient and worth sharing: [...]

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today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

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