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Wall of Flippers is the way to put a stop to Flipper Zero

Dataconomy

Soon, custom firmware emerged, expanding the attack canvas to Android and Windows, spamming users with unwanted advertisements, and potentially compromising device security. Pen-testing tool Flipper Zero was eventually used for Bluetooth spam attacks on the iOS operating system ( Image credit ) What is Wall of Flippers?

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems. The malicious applications are derived from a variety of open-source projects and purport to be cryptocurrency trading or price prediction tools.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

I’ve tested it and it works as advertised. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others).

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? ” Of course, the security company freaked out, called the editor and chief, threatened to pull their advertising. My example of hitting random keys and forcing the password manger to pop open illustrates the topic of this episode. How did this happen?

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? ” Of course, the security company freaked out, called the editor and chief, threatened to pull their advertising. My example of hitting random keys and forcing the password manger to pop open illustrates the topic of this episode. How did this happen?

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Contact Us.