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A New Skimmer Uses Websockets and Fake Credit Card Forms to Steal Data

A New Skimmer Uses Websockets and Fake Credit Card Forms to Steal Data

A new skimmer attack was discovered this week, targeting various online e-commerce sites built with different frameworks. As of the writing of this blog post, the attack is still active and exfiltrating data. Attackers are exploiting an expanding in-browser attack surface and continually evolving web skimming techniques. This attack implements

The most exciting thing about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine isn’t that it works

The most exciting thing about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine isn’t that it works

Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement of preliminary efficacy results for their Covid-19 vaccine candidate is a tiny speck of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Based on interim data from a late stage clinical trial, their candidate could prevent 90% of Covid-19 infections. There are still questions

How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home

How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home

I am a fan of Ubuntu, so I would like to help make it as secure as possible. I have recently spent quite a bit of time looking for security vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s system services, and it has mostly been an exercise in frustration. I have found (and reported)

OpenBSD Router Guide

OpenBSD Router Guide

Network segmenting firewall, DHCP, DNS with Unbound, domain blocking and much more Introduction In this guide we’re going to take a look at how we can use cheap and “low end” hardware to build an amazing OpenBSD router with firewalling capabilities, segmented local area networks, DNS with domain blocking,

Why Concurrency is a Difficult Concept

Why Concurrency is a Difficult Concept

Concurrency is one of the hardest concepts for many developers to grasp, but it is an important concept to grasp in modern software development. In this excerpt, we discus one of the most common issues with concurrent programming: race conditions. – Concurrent code is notoriously difficult to get right. It usually

How a Fake Pokemon-themed Covid 19 Paper was Published in a Journal

How a Fake Pokemon-themed Covid 19 Paper was Published in a Journal

This article originally appeared on the-scientist.com; however, I found it quite problematic and intriguing at the same time, so I decided to share. This article highlights the pitfalls of predatory research journals, pseudo-science, and boosted citation counts. The majority of what is presented on this website is my own