RE: https://infosec.exchange/@CrackMeIfYouCan/116904210214745592
I will be joining as an internet random... no real hope of cracking much.. If anyone wants to form an infosec.exchange or infosex.eccgang team, I am open!
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Look what I found on archive: Beavis & Butthead Doom Add-On GAM-098
New video: App Execution Aliases.
Type notepad, get the Store one, not the System32 one. Why? App Execution Aliases.
https://trainsec.net/library/windows-internals/how-windows-app-execution-aliases-work-and-how-to-read-them-in-c/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@d_olex/116902388645366483
Many people have drawn entirely wrong conclusions from this post. Meanwhile, an actual solution for preventing this kind of tracking lays in a different ballpark:
1) Get a burner laptop for your hacktivism or organized crime activities, never use it for anything else;
2) Get some dedicated hardware to run your VPN or Tor client, for example -- a portable battery powered router with OpenWrt;
3) Configure and use this setup in a way that prevents the laptop from accessing the internet directly;
"Good morning, Little Piglet," said Eeyore. "If it _is_ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he. "Not that it matters," he said.
How do the closed-source parts of Apple's Private Cloud Compute work? We had a look at it šš
Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3765613.3811691
Slides: https://hpi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/90_Research_Groups/classen/Documents/ACM_WiSec_26_PCC_Presentation.pdf
Iāve been working with computers for five decades. Some people view me as an āexpertā in certain subjects.
And I can tell you that when I am learning a new technology I still feel like the dumbest newb on the planet. I make tons of mistakes. I go down stupid rabbit holes of my own making. I have tons of self doubt.
So give yourself some grace. Everybody goes through this phase. Take a deep breath. Believe that you can do this.
Apple SEAR is hiring an offensive security researcher focused on wireless security!
We're looking for talented researchers to help find and exploit vulnerabilities across wireless technologies.
If you love digging into wireless stacks and
if you're not gonna be at EMF you can get some here: