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For the less technical
- A Redditor didn’t care for OPSEC and there were sad results
- A story of two guys who were not police officers
- Story of the kidnapped model develops
- HBO blackmailed with ransom notes and hackers rejected 250k USD ransom payment
- Algorithms detect spy planes
- Bulgarian hacker arrested in Philippines
- Sudden obsession of Kremlin about cryptocurrencies
- Story of a men who hacked slot machines
- Cuba US diplomats have sudden hearing problems
- Starting an infosec career
- Elections allegedly hacked in Kenya
- Maritime drug smuggling in Colombia
- Story of numeric stations
For the more technical
- [VIDEO] SHA2017 conference recordings
- Creating the smallest PE executable
- Dailymotion user data leak
- Update from FireEye on the data leak
- Concurrency attacks on ecommerce
- Campaign against Russian-speaking businesses
- Cisco accidentally deleted data from the Meraki cloud
- [PDF] Static analysis of malware
- BTC price manipulation
- Detailed description of an interesting iOS bug
- Juniper vulnerabilities
- Flash sandbox attacks
- Source code management tools vulnerabilities
- Conflict about Carbon Black software
- Multiple vulnerabilities in SAP
- Story of a QNAP botnet
- Malware encoded in DNA
- Master password encryption strength in password managers
- Interesting attack on Office365 accounts
- $10k for host header manipulation
- Redteamers fired for presenting at Defcon
- Cerber campaign analysis
- Check who visited your website
- Breaking NemucodAES ransomware
- Hyper-V guest-to-host escape
- Fears among threat sharing community after Marcus Hutchins arrest
- APT trends report
- Interesting elevation of privilege in Windows
- GlobeImposter ransomware analysis
- Java deserialization exploit
- New Agent.BTZ variant analysis
- New SmokeLoader analysis
- Attacks on ROBLOX players
- Remote code execution in Windows Search
- Malicious file analysis with ViperMonkey
- Pwnie Awards winners
- Backdooring Atom editor
- Phishing tracker
- [PDF] Fuzzing results for multiple protocols
- Free PhishMe services
- Hacking a simple ransomware
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