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Deciphering Sneakers

Sneakers isn't just one of the best hacker movies of all time, it's a spiritual successor to WarGames and one of the most entertaining movies ever. Full stop.

Podcast, Hacker Movies

ICANN Warns of ‘Ongoing and Significant’ Threat to DNS

A series of DNS-hijacking campaigns against government agencies and other organizations has led ICANN to call for full deployment of DNSSEC and other protective measures.

DNS Security

A Traveler’s Guide to OPSEC

Traveling can be a lot of fun, but it can also present myriad challenges when it comes to keeping your information and devices secure. A few simple steps and a little advance planning can go a long way to increasing your operational security.

OPSEC, Rsac2019

BIND 9 Contains Serious Memory Leak

Some versions of BIND 9 contain a severe memory leak that can exhaust the memory resources on a vulnerable server.

BIND

19-Year-Old Bug Haunts WinRAR

A bug that can grant arbitrary code execution has been lurking in the WinRAR compression utility since 2000.

Vulnerabilities