Formal-Methods-Based Bugfinding for LLVM’s AArch64 Backend

TypoSquatting, RepoJacking, and Domain Takeover – The Story of the Recent Attacks

A layered approach to content blocking

Issue #233

6/7/2022

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Shadoop
There's a seagull nest on the roof across the street from my window, and I feel like I've become far too invested in their success. They're so damn adorable, even though I saw them ripping apart the carcass of a pigeon a couple of days ago.
I'm guessing it's hormones or instincts, but I'd say over the past two years I've felt a drastic change in my attitude towards children (in the positive direction). The human body is an insanely complicated and interesting organic machine. Imagine if your computer started to all of a sudden hint at it wanting you to get another one to replace it. I guess it kind of does that as it becomes obsolete and can no longer run modern (bloated?) software. Oh jeez, am I just becoming obsolete?
Anyway, a little unrelated digression, but those are healthy every once in a while. Here's the issue.

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Formal-Methods-Based Bugfinding for LLVM’s AArch64 Backend

Published: 6 June 2022
Tags: compiler, formal methods


Ryan Berger, Stefan Mada, Nader Boushehri, and John Regehr demonstrate an approach to finding miscompilation errors in a LLVM backend using formal methods.


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TypoSquatting, RepoJacking, and Domain Takeover – The Story of the Recent Attacks

Published: 1 June 2022
Tags: infosec, python, rust


Alex Ilgayev covers three recent incidents involving malicious packages in the Rust and Python ecosystems.


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A layered approach to content blocking

Published: 4 June 2022
Tags: web


Rohan Kumar explains how an update to the extension API in Chrome will affect content filtering (ad blockers).


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TypoSquatting, RepoJacking, and Domain Takeover – The Story of the Recent Attacks 92 38.82% 99 38.37
A layered approach to content blocking 92 38.82% 101 39.15

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