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For the less technical
- Panama’s ex-president was spying on Americans
- Hacking computer games to make a living
- Story of a Russian spam king
- Price analysis of smuggling market
- Cellebrite to provide “textalysers” for the police
- El Chapo lawyers question his extradition
- MalwareTech arrested in US
- An Australian bank did not follow AML procedures
- Security experts in big demand in China
- DDoSer DDosed to remove stories about his DDoses
- HBO hacked
- Mexican lawyers victims of spying
- IoT security legislation prepared in US
- How the shape of the new iPhone leaked
For the more technical
- DEFCON 25 materials
- BlackHat USA 2017 materials
- SMBLoris – DoS on SMB
- Configuring a Photoshop backdoor
- Cryptocoin pump and dump scheme example
- Fake hardware tokens concept
- Thousands of webcams vulnerable
- Signal group chats are less secure
- Results of the Google – Symantec conflict over SSL certificates
- Steganography in contemporary attacks
- A clever way to steal files from OS X
- Chrome extensions hijacking attacks
- Hacking friend’s accounts step by step
- Typosquatting attack on npm
- Canadian spies hacked Russian spies
- Way to check if the password has been leaked before
- SMBLoris working on Linux as well
- Analysis of a Chinese APT campaign
- [PDF] Detecting IMSI Catchers
- Ethereum lost because of lack of quotes
- DDoS attacks in Q2 2017
- New FIN7 attacks analysis
- Vulnerabilities in some car’s modems
- How not to react to a vulnerability report
- Thousands of system management servers without authorization
- Geolocating Twitter users with statistics
- Using Amazon EC2 to break passwords
- Attack on an FireEye analyst
- Attack on Mediatek devices
- Mobile ransomware analysis
- Multiple vulnerabilities in cable modems
- Sandboxing Windows Defender
- DigiCert buys Symantec’s certificate business
- Windows Defender APT and machine learning
- FIRST tool used to analyse Crypt0l0cker
- Unusual error in Windows file icon management
- XSS to RCE in Electron
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