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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of attacks by a threat actor of Chinese origin that has targeted organizations in Russia and Hong Kong with malware — including a previously undocumented backdoor. Attributing the campaign to Winnti (or APT41), Positive Technologies dated the first attack to May 12, 2020, when the
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Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. Now, these words may be somewhat jarring – the vaccine is a liquid that gets injected in your arm. How can we talk about source code? This is a
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You should already know how big tech companies like Google or Facebook are using your private data to make revenue from targeted ads (and sometimes maybe sell it under the hood without your knowledge). There is no secret about data being the most valuable asset on earth now – even exceeding
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Anti-cheat development is, by nature, reactive; anti-cheats exist to respond to and thwart a videogame’s population of cheaters. For instance, a videogame with an exceedingly low amount of cheaters would have little need for an anti-cheat, while a videogame rife with cheaters would have a clear need for an
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When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the boundary between the user space and the kernel. It turns out that this overhead is more nuanced than I used to think, so let’s look
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Author’s note: This article was originally found here. Introduction Much of the work done at Google, and in many organizations, is done collaboratively by teams. The team is the molecular unit where real production happens, where innovative ideas are conceived and tested, and where employees experience most of their
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Linux is not a secure operating system. However, there are steps you can take to improve it. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy. This guide attempts to be distribution-agnostic and is not tied to any specific one. DISCLAIMER: Do
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Quick Introduction The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries. This console will carry on using Nintendo’s signature GPU. Additionally, it will introduce a relatively new CPU from a UK company that will surge in popularity
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Bohmian mechanics, which is also called the de Broglie-Bohm theory, the pilot-wave model, and the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, is a version of quantum theory discovered by Louis de Broglie in 1927 and rediscovered by David Bohm in 1952. It is the simplest example of what is often called
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Preface: In conjunction with the PEW Research Center Social media includes all the ways people connect to people through computation. Mobile devices, social networks, email, texting, micro-blogging and location sharing are just a few of the many ways people engage in computer-mediated collective action. As people link, like, follow, friend,
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Generating A Twitter Ego-Network & Detecting Communities Preface: The work of colleagues and I will expand upon this but has been halted. The work below that was conducted in 2018 by a group of researchers is vital to understanding how and why certain communities are being targeted. Our hearts have
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Think of all the tasks that take place behind the scenes when you interact with a program or application — such as an internet browser or email client — on a computer network. For example, the data being exchanged must be disassembled into packets, which are then transmitted across the network and