Hacker News with Generative AI: Computer Security

Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020) (hagensieker.com)
I’m into computer security a little bit and always striving to learn more.  I’m also a firm believer in Open Source software.  In Proprietary software you don’t know really know what’s going on.  Case in point:  Alexa, Siri, Hey Google.  They say it isn’t spying on you but you know that it is.
Computer Security, Privacy
16 points by transpute 3 days ago | 6 comments
C is not a low-level language (2018) (queue.acm.org)
In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it's worth spending some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the attacker to observe the results via a side channel. The features that led to these vulnerabilities, along with several others, were added to let C programmers continue to believe they were programming in a low-level language, when this hasn't been the case for decades.
Computer Security, Programming Languages, C Programming
15 points by pdubroy 10 days ago | 14 comments
Security Engineering by Ross Anderson 3rd Edition (Free PDF) (cam.ac.uk)
I've written a third edition of Security Engineering. The e-book version is available now for $44 from Wiley and Amazon; paper copies are available from Amazon here for delivery in the USA and here for the UK.
Security Engineering, Computer Security, Books, Free Resources
5 points by wanderingmind 192 days ago | 0 comments
Andrew "Bunnie" Huang (Hacker) (wikipedia.org)
Andrew "bunnie" Huang (born 1975) is an American researcher and hacker,[1] who holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT and is the author of the freely available 2003 book Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering.
Hackers, Reverse Engineering, Computer Security, Hardware
6 points by popcalc 213 days ago | 1 comments
The Night Watch (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)
Computer Security, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Research, PDF
4 points by karagenit 285 days ago | 1 comments
Computer Security Is a Political Struggle (cybershow.uk)
Computer Security, Politics, Cybersecurity
75 points by nonrandomstring 291 days ago | 62 comments
The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) (ranum.com)
Computer Security, Cybersecurity, Opinion, Technology, History
267 points by lsb 313 days ago | 284 comments
Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Computer Access via GPU (tugraz.at)
Security, Browsers, Computer Security, Hardware, Vulnerabilities
101 points by jiripospisil 401 days ago | 49 comments