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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

Dark Caracal’s custom-developed mobile spyware, which the report’s authors call Pallas, is the first documented global advanced persistent threat , or APT, on a mobile device. While some antivirus software [programs] focus on detecting known exploits, these apps were fully functional except for the Trojanized part.”.

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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

The Crazy Programmer

An operating system is also referred to as an OS, and it’s a programming framework. Thus, it’s a crucial program that stays functional in the computer device to run single or multiple tasks at a time. However, there can be many reasons, but a few resources are getting used by other programs. Resource Management.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. ImageIO or Image I/O is a framework that allows programs to read and write image file formats, including WebP. What is WebP or libwebp?

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Programming. Google has announced a new programming language, Carbon , that is intended to be the successor to C++. Apple has added “ lockdown mode ” to iOS.

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Simplicity and Security

Code Simplicity

When we think about software security, the first question that we ask is, “How many different ways could this program possibly be attacked?” Standard UNIX has a very small number of system calls that are used to implement the vast majority of all UNIX programs out there. Here’s the Linux Logging API.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Good training programs exist and are an important part of the solution—but not all training programs are good programs. are concerned about spyware, 7.6% Contrast that to programming: Language updates happen every few years, and new programming languages of any significance are quite rare. Only 10.0%

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Programming. Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. in situations where there are large uncertainties. shake hands”). Miscellaneous.

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