Monday, September 24
TOP STORY
NPR’s Michael Parks looks at the business of voting. Related: only 11% of jurisdictions in the US have signed up for the federal election threat alert system.
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Japan CERT/CC releases SysmonSearch, “a system based on Elastic Stack [2]. Sysmon log analysis function (search, statistical analysis and visualisation) is implemented by Kibana Plugin.”
Weird Twitter bug allowed private DM’s to be sent to third-party developers. Only messages sent to brand accounts were affected.
Interesting thread started by Matthew Green logging into a Google site on Chrome now logs you into the browser. Some nuance notes from the Chrome team, such as “auto-syncing is opt-in”.
NYT’s Stephen Hiltner on Def Con, anonymity and hacker handles. Great article with beautiful photos.
From VNC to reverse shell by benjojo
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