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A simple tool to make websites more secure and curb hacking

An international team of researchers has developed a scanning tool to make websites less vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks.

The black box assessment prototype, tested by engineers in Australia, Pakistan and the UAE, is more effective than existing web scanners which collectively fail to detect the top 10 weaknesses in web applications.

UniSA mechanical and systems engineer Dr. Yousef Amer is one of the co-authors of a new international paper that describes the development of the tool in the wake of escalating global cyberattacks.

A Synthetic Lattice in a Cold Atomic Cloud

Defining a fermionic lattice using spin and momentum instead of spatial coordinates opens the door for interacting-fermion simulations with more complex lattice geometries.

Amazon Linux server can be hacked easily. Critical Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Log4j Hotpatch released to fix Log4j vulnerabilities — Vulnerabilities — Information Security Newspaper | Hacking News.

AI Safety Researcher, Roman Yampolskiy | The Human Podcast #12

Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety & security researcher. He’s a tenured associate professor at the University of Louisville and the director of the Cyber Security Laboratory.

The Human Podcast is a new show that explores the lives and stories of a wide range of individuals. New episodes are released every week — subscribe to stay notified.

AUDIO:
Spotify — Online Shortly.
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SOCIAL:
Twitter — https://twitter.com/heyhumanpodcast.
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GUEST:
Roman’s Twitter — https://twitter.com/romanyam.
Roman’s Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Yampolskiy.
Roman’s Webpage — http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/
Roman’s Books — https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-V-Yampolskiy/e/B00DBE57XM
Roman’s Papers — https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_Rq68cAAAAJ&hl=en.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter content policy will make raising a ‘troll army’ more expensive

Elon Musk is finally revealing some specifics of his Twitter content moderation policy. Assuming he completes the buyout he initiated at $44 billion in April, it seems the tech billionaire and Tesla CEO is open to a “hands-on” approach — something many didn’t expect, according to an initial report from The Verge.

This came in reply to an employee-submitted question regarding Musk’s intentions for content moderation, where Musk said he thinks users should be allowed to “say pretty outrageous things within the law”, during an all-hands meeting he had with Twitter’s staff on Thursday.

Elon Musk views Twitter as a platform for ‘self-expression’

This exemplifies a distinction initially popularized by Renée DiResta, a disinformation authority — according to the report. But, during the meeting, Musk said he wants Twitter to impose a stricter standard against bots and spam, adding that “it needs to be much more expensive to have a troll army.”

New peer-to-peer botnet infects Linux servers with cryptominers

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022, targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency.

Panchan is empowered with SSH worm functions like dictionary attacks and SSH key abuse to perform rapid lateral movement to available machines in the compromised network.

At the same time, it has powerful detection avoidance capabilities, such as using memory-mapped miners and dynamically detecting process monitoring to stop the mining module immediately.

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