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For the less technical
- How the largest child porn forum was run by police for 11 months
- Prime example of journalist investigations
- WH chief of staffs’s phone hacked
- Information transmission attack from 1843
- How APT piggybacks on other APTs (plus second description of this phenomenon)
- 3 billion accounts leaked from Yahoo
- Hackers classified
- History of a group of unusual burglars
For the more technical
- DLL injections
- CCleaner backdoor analysis
- CCleaner attack analysis step by step
- Backdoor code similarity between CCleaner and other attacks
- Analysis of an attack on Android phones in Palestine
- Analysis of homograph attack
- [PDF] Accidental GSM satellite retransmission
- Huge IT Security resources repository
- Analysis of a Chinese DDoS botnet
- Cloudflare rejects websites using JS to mine cryptocurrency
- Windows 7/8 bugs found via bindiffing with Windows 10
- Automating bug detection in Microsoft products
- Analysing BlueCoat filesystem
- File upload as another Flickr user
- Attacking Ed25519
- Alerts about new vulnerabilities / CVE
- Information about installed apps in iOS
- WordPress plugins vulnerabilities
- Twitter XSS
- Analysis of a simple but effective attack
- Dnsmasq vulnerabilities
- [PDF] Research on security patches
- Bitlocker bruteforcing tool
- New Rig EK campaign
- Password bypass in VMWare Fusion
- Remote hacking of sex toys
- Robot hacking
- Tool to detect attacks on Outlook forms
- Uber app was capable of reading iOS screen contents
- Bypassing Intel Boot Guard
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