This technique was just as valid 8 years ago as it is today. The only difference today is that the realtek chipsets with port reassignment are more prevalent.
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Please correct me if I am mistaken, but couldn't this have been implemented into an iframe that when ran could send the passwords to another remote server?
If so, I am a little taken back by LastPass only offering $1,000 to the researcher that found and reported it for fixing. He or she could have taken a different path and resulted in this being used in some complex targeted attack against tech corporations via short-url redirect interstitial pages, or an ad network's javascript, etc. Given the potential damage, I'd say there is a missing zero or two on that reward amount, in my opinion.
ASN.1 parsing in implementations of several different standards have had this class of issue for well over a decade. ip phone and software stack vulnerabilities in, for example in asterisk, specifically for ASN.1 handling have probably been used by our intelligence community for a long time. The safe implementations are probably ran in virtual machine languages.
Cinder blocks were cheaper near foundries, so a lot of plant economy homes are wood propped up and not on slabs. Slabs do not last on the "gumbo" mud, and it floods. Metals weren't cheap enough for siding so asbestos was used. Now there are the synthesized woods.
Do these people understand that encryption is just software, and you can't prevent software from proliferating just by passing some legislation? It would make all legitimate purposes of end to end encryption illegal, and leave it only for the criminals. Have we not learned anything from the conversation on gun control?
In thread-per-connection server applications, the concurrency is exactly the number of threads spun up for the pool of connections. In node, it achieves that concurrency without a thread pool for the connections themselves, and thus you get less resource usage (memory mostly) for the same number of connections as the daemon scales up.
Node's real draw, aside from pretty easy concurrency, is the package ecosystem.
Considering the artist says they were lost by the scientist manning the electron scanning microscope accidentally placing his thumb on the glass, and didn't mention what the scientist team that created the sculptures thought of this (or if they could make more), I'd lean towards hoax story. There are several other glaring inconsistencies in the artist's story.
He just says to trust him that they were there, and that people love to hear stories :)
Emails started bouncing to the account around 05:00 GMT last night, it's likely that was one of the only ways the attacker could maintain communication.