Black Hat USA 2019, Nathan Hauke's & David Renardy's 'Denial Of Service With A Fistful Of Packets: Exploiting Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities' →
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Black Hat USA 2019, Rebecca Lynch 's 'Woke Hiring Won't Save Us: An Actionable Approach To Diversity Hiring And Retention' →
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Black Hat USA 2019, James Pavur's 'GDPArrrrr: Using Privacy Laws To Steal Identities' →
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Black Hat 2019, Orange Tsai's & Meh Chang's 'Infiltrating Corporate Intranet Like NSA - Pre-Auth RCE On Leading SSL VPNs' →
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Black Hat USA 2019, Matt Prevost's 'How Do Cyber Insurers View The World?' →
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Black Hat USA 2019, Nick Landers' 'Flying A False Flag: Advanced C2, Trust Conflicts, And Domain Takeover' →
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USENIX Enigma 2019, Tudor Dumitras' 'How To Predict Which Vulnerabilities Will Be Exploited' →
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Quantum Internet
via Natalie Wolchover, writing at Quanta Magazine, comes a quantum-of-quantifiable-good-news regarding the internets of the future. In this case, a Quantum Internet, discussed gingerly on the fraying edges of scintillating scientic methodology... Read all about it!
'Wehner is the coordinator of the Quantum Internet Alliance, a European Union initiative to build a network for transmitting quantum information throughout the continent. In a paper in Science last October, she and two co-authors laid out a six-stage plan for realizing the quantum internet, where each developmental stage will support new algorithms and applications. The first stage is already underway, with the construction of a demonstration quantum network that will connect four cities in the Netherlands — a kind of Arpanet analogue.' - via Natalie Wolchover, writing at Quanta Magazine,
USENIX Enigma 2019, Periwinkle Doerfler's 'Something You Have And Someone You Know—Designing For Interpersonal Security' →
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USENIX Enigma 2019, Alex Smolen's 'The Kids Aren't Alright—Security And Privacy In The K–12 Classroom' →
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Facebookery: Liar, Liar, Hoodies On Fire
via Kate Conger, Gabriel J.X. Dance and Mike Isaac reporting at The New York Times, comes news and a modicum of analysis by Daring Fireball's John Gruber. Enjoy the latest data theft, data misappropriation and mishandling revelations from the criminal enterprise also known as Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB)!
'If these privacy violations weren’t so serious, and if Facebook weren’t so powerful and influential to the daily lives of billions, it would be comical the way they vastly underestimate any and all privacy or security problems, only to come back months later with a more accurate number. They do it every time, and the errors are always in the direction of underreporting severity.' - via John Gruber writing at Daring Fireball's
'The extent of how many apps Facebook had cut off was revealed in court filings that were unsealed later on Friday by a state court in Boston, as part of an investigation by the Massachusetts attorney general into the technology company. The documents showed that Facebook had suspended 69,000 apps. Of those, the majority were terminated because the developers did not cooperate with Facebook’s investigation; 10,000 were flagged for potentially misappropriating personal data from Facebook users.' - via Kate Conger, Gabriel J.X. Dance and Mike Isaac writing at The New York Times
USENIX Enigma 2019, Mark Loveless' 'Physical OPSEC As A Metaphor For Infosec' →
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USENIX Enigma 2019, Daniela Seabra Oliveira's 'Why Even Experienced And Highly Intelligent Developers Write Vulnerable Code And What We Should Do About It' →
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Quantum Of Tuesday: Google Quantum AI's Paper, Whereabouts Known
via Bianca Bharti - writing for Canada's National Post, comes news of Google, Inc's (Nasdaq: GOOGL) stunning accomplishment in quantum computation. Described in a paper entitled 'Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor' and published at NASA (since taken down, but, available here, along with a bibliography document entitled 'Google Quantum Supremacy (Supplementary information) 09-2019' here.). Read it and weep for the quantum advertising onslaught from Serge and Larry coupled with the complete demise of your future self's privacy in all alternate universes...
"The tantalizing promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor. A fundamen- tal challenge is to build a high-fidelity processor capable of running quantum algorithms in an exponentially large computational space. Here, we report using a processor with programmable superconducting qubits to create quantum states on 53 qubits, occupying a state space 253 ∼ 1016. Measurements from repeated experiments sample the corresponding probability distribution, which we verify using classical simulations. While our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task. This dramatic speedup relative to all known classical algorithms provides an experimental realization of quantum supremacy on a com- putational task and heralds the advent of a much-anticipated computing paradigm." - via the Google AI Quantum and collaborators, et al - enumerated within the paper here**
USENIX Enigma 2019, Aaron Grattafiori's 'If Red Teaming Is Easy: You're Doing It Wrong' →
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