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News alert: SquareX’s “Year of Browser Bugs” project exposes critical cybersecurity blind spots

The Last Watchdog

Notable projects included the Month of Browser Bugs (July 2006), Month of Kernel Bugs (November 2006), and Month of Apple Bugs (January 2007). As part of the Year of Browser Bugs (YOBB) project, SquareX commits to continue disclosing at least one major architectural browser vulnerability every month. However, unlike H.

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Threat Model Thursday: Architectural Review and Threat Modeling

Adam Shostack

[no description provided] For Threat Model Thursday, I want to use current events here in Seattle as a prism through which we can look at technology architecture review. The cost of a house has risen nearly 25% above the 2007 market peak , and has roughly doubled in the 6 years since April 2012. No, actually, I'm not quite there.

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The end of the i386 kernel and images

Kali Linux

The i386 architecture has long been obsolete, and from this week, support for i386 in Kali Linux is going to shrink significantly: i386 kernel and images are going away. Some terminology first Let’s start with the terms used in Kali Linux to talk about CPU architectures. amd64 refers to the x86-64 architecture, ie.

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Threat Model Thursday: Architectural Review and Threat Modeling

Adam Shostack

For Threat Model Thursday, I want to use current events here in Seattle as a prism through which we can look at technology architecture review. The cost of a house has risen nearly 25% above the 2007 market peak , and has roughly doubled in the 6 years since April 2012. Seattle has a housing and homelessness crisis.

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Russia-linked group APT29 likely breached TeamViewer’s corporate network

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers, the nation-state actor has been active since at least 2007. Out of an abundance of caution, TeamViewer conducted a comprehensive audit of its security architecture and IT infrastructure subsequently and further strengthened it with appropriate measures.”

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached TeamViewer in 2016

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. “Out of an abundance of caution, TeamViewer conducted a comprehensive audit of its security architecture and IT infrastructure subsequently and further strengthened it with appropriate measures.”

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Winnti uses a new PipeMon backdoor in attacks aimed at the gaming industry

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. Its architecture is highly similar to the original variant, but its code was rewritten from scratch. Experts also spotted an updated version of PipeMon for which they were able to retrieve the first stage.

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