apocalypse
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Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse – The New Stack
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Upon reaching the factory door, you physically open the RFID lock and find a flash memory chip inside. The chip’s package has the word W25Q128 written on it. Your task is to uncover the secret encryption keys stored within so the team can generate valid credentials to gain access to the facility. ????Solution This challenge…
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Walkthrough of HackTheBox Cyber Apocalpyse 2024: Hacker Royale CTF Challenges Published in · 2 min read · Mar 19, 2024 Greetings, Cyber Mavericks!
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TBD That’s right. There aren’t any task details for this challenge! So let’s just dive in. ????Solution Before we browse to the website, let’s make sure we have our favourite web proxy Burp Suite tool ready to have the traffic proxied through it. The Stage: Once we load this website up, we notice immediately that…
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You’ve received a supply of valuable food and medicine from a generous sponsor. There’s just one problem — the box is made of solid steel! Luckily, there’s a dumb automated defense robot which you may be able to trick into opening the box for you — it’s programmed to only attack things with the correct…
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In the shadowed realm where the Phreaks hold sway, A mole lurks within, leading them astray. Sending keys to the Talents, so sly and so slick, A network packet capture must reveal the trick. Through data and bytes, the sleuth seeks the sign, Decrypting messages, crossing the line. The traitor unveiled, with nowhere to hide,…
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The Fray: The Video Game is one of the greatest hits of the last… well, we don’t remember quite how long. Our “computers” these days can’t run much more than that, and it has a tendency to get repetitive… ????Solution When you connect to this service, you’ll be presented with a console-based game. It’s a…
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In the past few years, an increasing number of tech companies, organizations, and even governments have been working on one of the next big things in the tech world: successfully building quantum computers.
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It is known as the Carrington Event and occurred in 1859. What began as spectacular northern lights that were seen from much of the world, in just a couple of days unleashed chaos. A solar flare had caused the telegraph systems of all of Europe and part of America to go down, causing supply outages…
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A paper (PDF) from researchers at the University of Cambridge, supported by voices from numerous academic institutions including OpenAI, proposes remote kill switches and lockouts as methods to mitigate risks associated with advanced AI technologies. It also recommends tracking AI chip sales globally. The Register reports: The paper highlights numerous ways policymakers might approach AI…
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Orin Campbell sparked massive online interest after appearing in a 2020 episode Dr PhilWhere he doubled down on his belief that he was an alien cyborg sent from the future.
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These days, role-playing games are experiencing a true golden age, and there are more and more new titles being released, especially those featuring settings and situations that are extremely out of the ordinary. This also means having fresh and peculiar mechanics in front of you, which mix “role playing” and rolling dice in increasingly ingenious…
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Open AI’s new boss is the same as the old boss. But the company—and the artificial intelligence industry—may have been profoundly changed by the past five days of high-stakes soap opera. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, cofounder and figurehead, was removed by the board of directors on Friday. By Tuesday night, after a mass protest by…
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In this Soap Box edition of the show, Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer joins us to talk about why the sudden pullback in venture funding in infosec is actually a good thing.