Defenders, Know Your Operating System Like Attackers Do!, (Wed, Mar 17th)

Not a technical diary today but more a reflection… When I’m teaching FOR610[1], I always remind students to “RTFM” or “Read the F… Manual”. I mean to not hesitate to have a look at the Microsoft document when they meet an API call for the first time or if they are not sure about the expected parameters.

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50 years of malware? Not really. 50 years of computer worms? That’s a different story…, (Tue, Mar 16th)

If you have any interest in the history of malicious code, chances are you’ve heard or read somewhere that the first piece of malware ever created was a computer worm called Creeper and that spread itself through the ARPANET in 1971. Some sources even mention that it might have been on this very date, i.e. exactly 50 years ago[1].

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