Cisco Talos on election security - 4 years of research on election infrastructure, the goals of our adversaries, and how the cybersecurity community can help
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Talosintelligence
What to expect when you’re electing: Talos’ 2020 election security primer
A blog from the world class Intelligence Group, Talos, Cisco's Intelligence Group
PhD thesis (2020) by Guo Li / UC San Diego: "An Empirical Analysis on [Cyber Threat Intelligence: Data Characteristics and Real-World Uses"](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h9983b0)
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escholarship.org
An Empirical Analysis on Threat Intelligence: Data Characteristics and Real-World Uses
Author(s): Li, Guo | Advisor(s): Savage, Stefan; Levchenko, Kirill | Abstract: Threat Intelligence, both as a concept and a product, has been increasingly gaining prominence in the security industry. At a high-level, it is the “knowledge” that helps organizations…
Container escape for Windows Server Containers explained
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but when have containers ever been safe from attacks trying to break out of the container? I thought that the consensus was that if you want more safety, you should run a virtual machine instead.
👤david171971
Is Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 also based on Containers or on Hyper-V? Does it have the same escape issues?
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In other news, Microsoft adds yet another technology to Windows with security as a tertiary concern.
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🗣pingpongfifa
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when have containers ever been safe from attacks trying to break out of the container? I thought that the consensus was that if you want more safety, you should run a virtual machine instead.
👤david171971
Is Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 also based on Containers or on Hyper-V? Does it have the same escape issues?
👤tubularobot
In other news, Microsoft adds yet another technology to Windows with security as a tertiary concern.
👤riskable
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Unit 42
Windows Server Containers Are Open, and Here's How You Can Break Out
We demonstrate a complete technique to escalate privileges and escape Windows Server Containers.
Z80 Explorer -- Zilog Z80 netlist-level simulator running Z80 machine code, with features that can help reverse-engineer and understand this chip better
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This is fantastic stuff!
I can see uses for this with my own work, indeed.
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There are also other interesting Z80 articles on that site.
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This is fantastic stuff!
I can see uses for this with my own work, indeed.
👤heriomortis
There are also other interesting Z80 articles on that site.
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Baltazar Studios
Z80 Explorer - Baltazar Studios
Z80 Explorer is a Z80 netlist-level simulator capable of running Z80 machine code and also an educational tool with features that help reverse engineer and understand this chip better.
Process Monitor for Linux (Preview)
Process Monitor (Procmon) is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system.
https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux
https://i.redd.it/d8qkly8c9hb51.gif
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Process Monitor (Procmon) is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system.
https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux
https://i.redd.it/d8qkly8c9hb51.gif
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux: A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool
A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool. Contribute to microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux development by creating an account on GitHub.
What was the Bitcoin Twitter hack?
The Bitcoin scam saw dozens of high-profile accounts send tweets urging users to transfer $1,000 (£794) with a link to a Bitcoin address.
In return, users were promised that their money would be doubled to $2,000 and returned to them.
Bitcoin, often termed as a cryptocurrency, a virtual currency or a digital currency, is a type of money that is completely virtual.
The hackers tweeted the same Bitcoin address across multiple Twitter accounts, with only minor variations to the wording of each tweet, such as saying they felt “generous” or wanted to “give back”.
A tweet on the account of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, for example, read: "Everyone is asking me to give back… You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."
As Twitter bosses scrambled to stop the far-reaching hack, extraordinarily by 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) every verified account was blocked from tweeting for around three hours.
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Who was targeted?
A lot of people, with millions and millions of followers, most of them US-based.
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, to name a few, along with Warren Buffett, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Joe Biden, Wiz Khalifa and Floyd Mayweather.
Top global corporations with millions of followers were also breached, including the official accounts of Apple and Uber.
The hacker(s) appears to have targeted very famous accounts that would spread the scam as far as possible in as short a timeframe as possible, dubbed a digital “smash and grab” by some commentators.
Given the amount of access they managed to gain, the hackers could have done much more damage to the reputations of the figures involved. However, they would have known the tweets would have been deleted hastily - and they were - so gaining quick cash seems to have been the overriding aim.
That said, the Bitcoin tweets on some accounts, such as Kim Kardashian's, stayed up for more than an hour and we don’t know yet how much private information the hackers managed to steal.
As of yet, it’s unclear who was responsible, however, sources close to or inside the hacking community told VICE that a Twitter insider was responsible, with one saying they paid the insider. These reports are unconfirmed.
What has Twitter said in response to the security breach?
The attention has quickly turned to Twitter, given it seems likely that the hackers breached the firm’s central security systems, essentially giving them admin rights to go after any account they wanted.
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The Bitcoin scam saw dozens of high-profile accounts send tweets urging users to transfer $1,000 (£794) with a link to a Bitcoin address.
In return, users were promised that their money would be doubled to $2,000 and returned to them.
Bitcoin, often termed as a cryptocurrency, a virtual currency or a digital currency, is a type of money that is completely virtual.
The hackers tweeted the same Bitcoin address across multiple Twitter accounts, with only minor variations to the wording of each tweet, such as saying they felt “generous” or wanted to “give back”.
A tweet on the account of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, for example, read: "Everyone is asking me to give back… You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000."
As Twitter bosses scrambled to stop the far-reaching hack, extraordinarily by 20:30 EDT (00:30 GMT Thursday) every verified account was blocked from tweeting for around three hours.
🗣Incognito1805G
Who was targeted?
A lot of people, with millions and millions of followers, most of them US-based.
Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, to name a few, along with Warren Buffett, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Joe Biden, Wiz Khalifa and Floyd Mayweather.
Top global corporations with millions of followers were also breached, including the official accounts of Apple and Uber.
The hacker(s) appears to have targeted very famous accounts that would spread the scam as far as possible in as short a timeframe as possible, dubbed a digital “smash and grab” by some commentators.
Given the amount of access they managed to gain, the hackers could have done much more damage to the reputations of the figures involved. However, they would have known the tweets would have been deleted hastily - and they were - so gaining quick cash seems to have been the overriding aim.
That said, the Bitcoin tweets on some accounts, such as Kim Kardashian's, stayed up for more than an hour and we don’t know yet how much private information the hackers managed to steal.
As of yet, it’s unclear who was responsible, however, sources close to or inside the hacking community told VICE that a Twitter insider was responsible, with one saying they paid the insider. These reports are unconfirmed.
What has Twitter said in response to the security breach?
The attention has quickly turned to Twitter, given it seems likely that the hackers breached the firm’s central security systems, essentially giving them admin rights to go after any account they wanted.
👤Incognito1805G
🎖@malwr
Reddit
From the Hacking_Tutorials community on Reddit: What was the Bitcoin Twitter hack?
Posted by Incognito1805G - 8 votes and 2 comments