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Hedera Hashgraph launches mainnet, hopes to compete with global business networks

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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0700

Hedera Hashgraph, an electronic public ledger developed for corporate use, launched its mainnet beta today, allowing developers to create an account and build decentralized applications (dApps) for it.

The distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a direct competitor to blockchain distributed ledgers such as Ethereum and Hyperledger, and claims it can outperform traditional financial and business networks.

“There is no direct equivalent to Hedera Hashgraph today,” said Martha Bennett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. Hedera is potentially competing with public networks and all the enterprise DLT frameworks (such as Hyperledger Fabric & Sawtooth, R3 Corda, and others) and their commercial providers, which include AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle.

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ComputerWorld Independent 

Hadera Hashgraph launches mainnet, hopes to compete with global business networks

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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0700

Hedera Hashgraph, an electronic public ledger developed for corporate use, launched its mainnet beta today, allowing developers to create an account and build decentralized applications (dApps) for it.

The distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a direct competitor to blockchain distributed ledgers such as Ethereum and Hyperledger, and claims it can outperform traditional financial and business networks.

“There is no direct equivalent to Hedera Hashgraph today,” said Martha Bennett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. Hadera is potentially competing with public networks and all the enterprise DLT frameworks (such as Hyperledger Fabric & Sawtooth, R3 Corda, and others) and their commercial providers, which include AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle.

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ComputerWorld Independent 

Throwback Thursday: Timing is everything

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0700

It’s many years ago, and this pilot fish regularly travels to company offices around the country, dealing with IT-related problems and running user training sessions.

The big current project is implementing internet filtering after complaints that some workers are viewing inappropriate websites. So fish has to head to a meeting with many directors and managers to demonstrate.

Upon arriving at the meeting site, fish sets up a laptop and projector and connects it to the internal network. Then he tests to make sure the filtering is working, calling up a blocked site that, if it does display, only shows a silhouette of a bunny with a bow tie.

But not to worry: The site is blocked, so everything is ready.

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ComputerWorld Independent 

Microsoft removes August patch block on Win7/2008R2 systems running Norton, Symantec AV

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:07:00 -0700

If you’re using Symantec Endpoint Protection or any Norton Antivirus product on a Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 machine, you didn’t get the August patches. Shortly after the August Monthly Rollup and Security-only patches were released, Microsoft put a freeze on systems running Symantec or Norton antivirus products.

The conflict stemmed from a long-anticipated change in the way Microsoft signed the August patches: Starting in August, all patches are signed using the SHA-2 encryption method. Somehow, Symantec didn’t get the message back in November that the shift was underway, and missed the deadline.

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Independent Securiteam 

beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB

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Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:30:44 +0000

During the event of Hack In the Box, we launched an ARM reverse engineering and exploitation challenge and gave the attendees the change to win great prizes. The challenge was divided into two parts, a file – can be downloaded from here: https://www.beyondsecurity.com/bevxcon/bevx-challenge-10 – that you had to download and reverse engineer and server that … Continue reading beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB

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Independent Securiteam 

I run this SOC!

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Credit to Author: dmitryc| Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:35:20 +0000

I don’t actually run this SOC (or any other) 🙂 But…but, as a certified “blue team” member, I’m pretty excited with the crop of new companies and ideas that are springing up in the area of SOC analysis, Deception technology, Lateral/external movement, etc. Some of the cool new(ish) vendors that I am falling deeply in … Continue reading I run this SOC!

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Independent Securiteam 

Hack2Win – Code Blue 3rd Edition

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Credit to Author: SSD / Research Team| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:26:26 +0000

Hi everyone, We are excited to announce our 3rd Hack2Win Code Blue competition! This year we have changed the format, raised the difficulty level and increased the prizes. The goal of the event is to find who can gain the highest privileges on any of the target software and hardware. Prizes for this contest will … Continue reading Hack2Win – Code Blue 3rd Edition

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Independent Securiteam 

Know your community – Celil ÜNÜVER

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Credit to Author: SSD / Research Team| Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:57:46 +0000

Bug Bounty hunter – found and reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Novell and more, Co-Founder of TRAPMINE and SignalSEC, Founder of NOPCon, speaker at PoC / Code Blue / Swiss Cyber Storm / CONFidence and more – please meet Celil ÜNÜVER Questions Q: How many years have you been working in the security … Continue reading Know your community – Celil ÜNÜVER

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Independent Securiteam 

SSD Advisory – HTC Sync Remote Code Execution

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Credit to Author: SSD / Research Team| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:19:14 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary The following advisory describes a remote code execution (RCE) found in HTC Sync version v3.3.63. Credit An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program. Vendor response The vulnerability was not reported to the vendor because the product has reached end of life on 31 August 2016 … Continue reading SSD Advisory – HTC Sync Remote Code Execution

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