CIA Evidence of hacking kept secret

nice little pragmatic article, IMO

Why the CIA won’t want to go public with evidence of Russia’s hacking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/27/why-its-so-hard-to-prove-russia-was-behind-the-election-hacks/

Navy hacked through HP

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN13J001

Third party supplier strikes again. My guess is the was no FDE on the laptop.

Targeted password attacks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/stop_using_birthday_in_password/

New hacker bounty

Army Bug Bounty Building New Relationships with Hackers https://threatpost.com/army-bug-bounty-building-new-relationships-with-hackers/121924/

Nation State Attribution

http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/2016/11/on-nation-states-and-sophistication.html?m=1

New online site

A new site I found via some cohorts on twitter. Not sure on the validity of data just yet, but could become a useful addition to the toolbox.

https://suspect-networks.io/

not so new way to keylog

https://www.cyberpointllc.com/srt/posts/srt-logging-keystrokes-with-event-tracing-for-windows-etw.html

Along with other bugs.......

USN-3087-2: OpenSSL regression | Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3087-2/




Introduction to Malware Analysis

introduction to Malware Analysis by  Lenny Zeltser

https://vimeo.com/9474345

Practice on ntds.dit file

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2016/07/25/practice-ntds-dit-file-overview/

Huge thanks to Didier Stevens for this

Funny

"I need an any/any bidirectional exception in the IPS and Firewall for this netblock." Netblock is a Class C "Let me check the Infosec Guidebook..."

https://securityreactions.tumblr.com/post/146559515028

Another gruq post

Surveillance Evasion https://protectioncircle.org/2016/06/14/surveillance-evasion/

New data exfiltration method

Clever Attack Uses the Sound of a Computer’s Fan to Steal Data

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-computers-fan-steal-data/

SpyEye creators arrested

http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/spyeye-banking-trojan.html

a lot of money for nothing......

http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/fbi-unlock-iphone.html

Something tells me that the leak that nothing significant was gained form breaking into the famous iPhone is a ruse, or miss-direction. If you will. I am guessing they found some things, that can add a few pieces to the big puzzle, but nothing earth shattering.