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2025-06-20: 10 news articles added
2025-06-22: 6 files added
2025-03-03: 1 voting poll added

2025-06-22 (1750550400)

Apologies for the downtime this morning. We had a cute DDoS attack. Cute because it wasn't sophisticated and more annoying than anything. A few hostile countries performed some tests and then leveraged thousands of AWS hosts to perform excessive /HEAD requests. The timing of this attack is not lost on us. However, it's mitigated for now. Monitoring will continue in case they pivot.

2025-06-10 (1749513600)

This morning's downtime was due to normal system updates, albeit out of band. Everything should be back online now.

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Everyone has an origin story that brought them to this point. Hackers tend to have some of the most interesting stories we have heard. How did you first get interested in hacking?
Answers	Results
Trustworthy friends.	10%
I went to school and got a degree.	20%
A news story telling me it paid well.	0%
A unique life event that caused me to question everything.	10%
I couldn't afford my phone bills.	30%
I watched Wargames, Sneakers, or Hackers.	30%

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Leveraging Photonic Interconnects for Scalable and Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Posted: 2025-06-22

SmartHome-Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Video Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes Using Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Posted: 2025-06-22

Differentially Private Bilevel Optimization: Efficient Algorithms with Near-Optimal Rates
Posted: 2025-06-22

Rectifying Privacy and Efficacy Measurements in Machine Unlearning: a New Inference Attack Perspective
Posted: 2025-06-22

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Posted: 2025-06-22

Deep Spatial Neural Net Models with Functional Predictors: Application in Large-Scale Crop Yield Prediction
Posted: 2025-06-22

Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security
Posted: 2025-06-21

Buy It Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy Via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Posted: 2025-06-21

Detecting Hard-Coded Credentials in Software Repositories Via LLMs
Posted: 2025-06-21

Autonomous 3D Moving Target Encirclement and Interception with Range Measurement
Posted: 2025-06-21

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Godfather Android Trojan Creates Sandbox on Infected Devices
Posted: 2025-06-20

Personal Data of Oxford City Council Officers Exposed
Posted: 2025-06-20

Trump Confirms Further Delay to TikTok Ban or Sale Deadline
Posted: 2025-06-20

Uncle Sam Seeks Time in Tower Dump Data Grab Case after Judge Calls It Unconstitutional
Posted: 2025-06-20

Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider
Posted: 2025-06-20

Russia Expert Falls Prey to Elite Hackers Disguised As US Officials
Posted: 2025-06-20

Marks and Spencer and Co-op Hacks Classified As Single Cyber EVent
Posted: 2025-06-20

FreeType Zero-Day Found by Meta Exploited in Paragon Spyware Attacks
Posted: 2025-06-20

Hackers Exploit ComfyUI AI Image Generation Servers to Deploy Malware
Posted: 2025-06-20

Boffins Devise Voice-Altering Tech to Jam Vishing Schemes
Posted: 2025-06-20