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xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad!
March 31, 2024

xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad!

xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad! Story Background On March 29, 2024, a report exposing a backdoor in the upstream source code of the controversial open-source project, the xz software package, was made public on the oss-security mailing list.

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xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad!
March 31, 2024

xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad!

xz/liblzma Backdoor: Open Source Nuke? Maybe Not That Bad! Story Background On March 29, 2024, a report exposing a backdoor in the upstream source code of the controversial open-source project, the xz software package, was made public on the oss-security mailing list.

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Supermicro x11ssh-F OpenBMC Porting (WIP)
March 15, 2024

Supermicro x11ssh-F OpenBMC Porting (WIP)

Supermicro x11ssh-F OpenBMC Porting (WIP) Introduction to BMC and OpenBMC BMC, short for Baseboard Management Controller, is a specialized microcontroller embedded in certain computers, typically servers.

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Key management of OpenPGP Card
October 11, 2023

Key management of OpenPGP Card

Key management of OpenPGP Card Background As blank smartcards supporting Java Card 3.

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Protect the Watcher: Hardened SIEM/XDR server with VED
August 25, 2023

Protect the Watcher: Hardened SIEM/XDR server with VED

Background Modern cybersecurity operation centers significantly depend on two key elements: agent-based security solutions operating on desktops, laptops, and server operating systems, and a threat analysis system, often referred to as a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system or eXtended Detection and Response (XDR).

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Vault Range - The Measure and Resilience of Weaponized Exploit Methods for Linux
July 16, 2023

Vault Range - The Measure and Resilience of Weaponized Exploit Methods for Linux

Disclaimer VED (Vault Exploit Defense) test image contains only the VED kernel module, and does not contain any security baselines, access control policies and situational hardening solution.

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+PROTECTING LINUX AT KERNEL LEVEL WHY AND HOW
July 9, 2023

+PROTECTING LINUX AT KERNEL LEVEL WHY AND HOW

Introduction We designed Vault Exploits Defense (VED) as a foundation security layer for various flavors of Linux operating system.

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Memory corruption in JCRE: An unpatchable HSM may swallow your private key
April 18, 2023

Memory corruption in JCRE: An unpatchable HSM may swallow your private key

Background The key has always been a core target of security protection.

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Avoiding Single-Point-of-Failure and securing the Root Infrastructure: TCG TPM 2.0
March 7, 2023

Avoiding Single-Point-of-Failure and securing the Root Infrastructure: TCG TPM 2.0

What is TCG TPM 2.0? Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.

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Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model
February 2, 2023

Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model

Prologue SMPC is an interesting topic, whose the applications include systematic security and cryptographic engineering, and this article will discuss its principles, threat models and use-case.

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