SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

Dark Pink is an emerging APT group that has been active since mid-2021, with their first successful attack observed in June 2022. The group operates in the APAC region and employs sophisticated techniques, including DLL side-loading and Event Triggered Execution, to launch custom malware and maintain persistence.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Blunden has authored a fairly comprehensive piece on environment variables in Linux and macOS. Linux may be coming to the Apple M1 chip.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Michael Gasch pontificates on Knative’s missteps in this post from June 2021. Operating Systems/Applications. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first? Yes please!

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of May 2021—my how time flies! In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Ben Kehoe provides readers with a hygienic Python setup for Linux, macOS, and WSL. Corey Minyard of MontaVista disusses the role of Linux and virtualization in safety-critical systems.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

At first, Parallels Desktop will boot a full copy of Windows, allowing Microsoft’s operating system to sit side by side with Chrome OS and Android apps. They’ve done it with Mac and they’ve done it with Linux,” says Mistry. “We Windows 10X is now expected to arrive in 2021. Windows apps running on Chrome OS.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It integrates with multiple devices (smartphone, tablet, or PC) and operating systems (iOS, Android, and Windows). . It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Digital Publishing / August 17, 2021. Digital Publishing / February 8, 2021. Best EPUB Makers to Create Interactive eBooks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Linux-based system will also be available to third-party developers who may want to create apps and other features for GM customers. By then, GM will have many vehicles running Google’s embedded Android Automotive operating system , which Miller says will work “alongside” its new Ultifi software platform in certain vehicles.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. This is a slightly older post (dates from 2021), but still useful, I think. Operating Systems/Applications I started being a fan of Basic Apple Guy a while ago, and I use some of his wallpapers on my Mac and my mobile devices. (I’m

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Although a bit older (from June 2021), this article on unknown values in Terraform feels like a direct response to the rise of tools leveraging general purpose programming languages for declarative infrastructure management (think tools like Pulumi, AWS CDK, etc.). Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Gizmodo

MAY 18, 2021

Android 12 is the next major update to Google’s ubiquitous mobile OS, and at Google I/O 2021 we got a preview of all the big new features headed our way later this fall including a focused push for increased privacy, revamped notifications, an updated design language, and more. Read more.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Paula Januszkiewicz, from Cqure , joins The Hacker Mind to discuss her two presentations at SecTor 2021 on digital forensics. You’ll want someone with years of pen testing experience, some one who knows the operating system like no other. Who are you going to call for help?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon’s main cloud streaming rivals, Microsoft and Google, are using entirely different hardware and operating systems for their own cloud gaming services. teraflops of GPU performance, all powered by Linux. Microsoft has confirmed it will move xCloud servers over to Xbox Series X hardware in 2021.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. And the hope is that in 2021, we'll get more expansive exemptions that apply to more types of devices, and that reduce the potential chilling effect that would stop researchers working on security research in the US because of fears of DMCA violations.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. And the hope is that in 2021, we'll get more expansive exemptions that apply to more types of devices, and that reduce the potential chilling effect that would stop researchers working on security research in the US because of fears of DMCA violations.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Like all the unused files within your operating system?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. It didn't happen in the control system, but they're interconnected.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. It’s an interesting story, one they presented at Black Hat Europe in 2021, so I hope you’ll stick around. Their Operating System type was set to windows.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Vamosi: So at a lot of hacking conference I go to, I have a laptop running Linux. I have a laptop, with linux, so I can hack into a network or a mobile phone app, or a remote garage door opener. One of our volunteers lives in Japan, with a Space Operations company. I can join in, I can follow along. We're not very far away.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. In May 2021, for Episode 20 of The Hacker Mind , I interviewed Frank Duff was then the Director of ATT&CK Evaluations for MITRE Engenuity. Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

AI is almost good enough at simulating human activity to defeat the biometric systems designed to fight fraud, effectively putting us back at square one. IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. note: this is a machine generated transcript so there may be transcription errors]. In 2022, Lockbit became the most widely used ransomware.

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