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Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia

By: Newsroom
A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been sentenced to nearly 22 years (262 months) in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia. "This sentence should serve as a stark warning to all those entrusted with protecting national defense information that there are consequences to betraying that trust," said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants

By: Newsroom
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court order, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said last week. "The U.S. government should not be funding and legitimizing a shady industry whose flagrant violations of Americans' privacy are not just unethical, but illegal

Wallet-Transaction-Monitor - This Script Monitors A Bitcoin Wallet Address And Notifies The User When There Are Changes In The Balance Or New Transactions

By: Zion3R


This script monitors a Bitcoin wallet address and notifies the user when there are changes in the balance or new transactions. It provides real-time updates on incoming and outgoing transactions, along with the corresponding amounts and timestamps. Additionally, it can play a sound notification on Windows when a new transaction occurs.

    Requirements

    Python 3.x requests library: You can install it by running pip install requests. winsound module: This module is available by default on Windows.

    How to Run

    • Make sure you have Python 3.x installed on your system.
    • pip install -r requirements.txt
    • Clone or download the script file wallet_transaction_monitor.py from this repository.
    • Place the sound file (in .wav format) you want to use for the notification in the same directory as the script. Make sure to replace "soundfile.wav" in the script with the actual filename of your sound file.
    • Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the directory where the script is located.
    • Run the script by executing the following command:
    python wallet_transaction_monitor.py

    The script will start monitoring the wallet and display updates whenever there are changes in the balance or new transactions. It will also play the specified sound notification on Windows.

    Important Notes

    This script is designed to work on Windows due to the use of the winsound module for sound notifications. If you are using a different operating system, you may need to modify the sound-related code or use an alternative method for audio notifications. The script uses the Blockchain.info API to fetch wallet data. Please ensure you have a stable internet connection for the script to work correctly. It's recommended to run the script in the background or keep the terminal window open while monitoring the wallet.



    Biden’s Privacy Order Slaps a Band-Aid on the EU-US Data Crisis

    By: Morgan Meaker
    A new executive order tries to reassure Europeans that their data is safe on US soil, despite government surveillance.

    Ex-NSA Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to a Foreign Government

    By: Ravie Lakshmanan
    A former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) employee has been arrested on charges of attempting to sell classified information to a foreign spy, who was actually an undercover agent working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, was employed at the NSA for less than a month from June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, serving as an Information Systems Security Designer

    China Accuses NSA's TAO Unit of Hacking its Military Research University

    By: Ravie Lakshmanan
    China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of conducting a string of cyberattacks aimed at aeronautical and military research-oriented Northwestern Polytechnical University in the city of Xi'an in June 2022. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (NCVERC) disclosed its findings last week, and accused the Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a cyber-warfare

    Warning: PyPI Feature Executes Code Automatically After Python Package Download

    By: Ravie Lakshmanan
    In another finding that could expose developers to increased risk of a supply chain attack, it has emerged that nearly one-third of the packages in PyPI, the Python Package Index, trigger automatic code execution upon downloading them. "A worrying feature in pip/PyPI allows code to automatically run when developers are merely downloading a package," Checkmarx researcher Yehuda Gelb said in a

    Haxx - Untethered + Unsandboxed Code Execution Haxx As Root On iOS 14 - iOS 14.8.1

    By: noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)


    Untethered + Unsandboxed code execution haxx as root on iOS 14 - iOS 14.8.1.

    Based on CoreTrustDemo, also please note that certificates are not copyrightable.


    Usage

    Note: requires macOS + existing jailbreak

    Get up and running

    1. On your mac import dev_certificate.p12 into the keychain, and the password is password.
    2. Modify haxx.c to include your own code (if you need it).
    3. Run make to build
    4. On the device, Copy /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd.back
    5. Then replace /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd with /usr/bin/fileproviderctl
    6. Create the /private/var/haxx directory, mode should be 0777
    7. Copy fileproviderctl_internal and haxx generated from the build to /usr/local/bin on the device, mode should be 0755.
    8. Profit.

    Fixing fileproviderctl

    After doing the above steps, fileproviderctl will be broken, to fix it do the following steps

    1. Grab a copy of /usr/bin/fileproviderctl on your device to your mac
    2. Patch the binary with GNU sed: gsed -i 's|/usr/local/bin/fileproviderctl_internal|/usr/local/bin/fileproviderctl_XXXXXXXX|g' fileproviderctl
    3. Resign it: codesign -s "Worth Doing Badly iPhone OS Application Signing" --preserve-metadata=entitlements --force fileproviderctl
    4. Put the fixed binary back onto your device.

    Removal

    To remove the installation, do the following steps

    1. Copy /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd to /usr/bin/fileproviderctl
    2. Move /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd.back to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreAnalytics.framework/Support/analyticsd
    3. Delete /var/haxx, /usr/local/bin/fileproviderctl_internal as well as /usr/local/bin/haxx


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