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KoreLogic Security
Company blog · blog.korelogic.com/blogsecurity
KoreLogic Security is the company blog at blog.korelogic.com, writing about security. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “SSDs evidence storage issues”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link KoreLogic posts on JavaScript deobfuscation and on SSDs losing data without power, including evidence storage. One commenter calls the deobfuscation article pretty good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Latest cybersecurity research, vulnerability discoveries, and technical insights from KoreLogic Security's research team.
Most-linked posts?
- SSDs evidence storage issues4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-06
- LinkedIn Revisited – Full 2012 Hash Dump Analysis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-19
- SSD Storage – Ignorance of Technology Is No Excuse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-07
- Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-13
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/24
on “SSD Prices in a Free Fall”Submitted Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation as a story · 45 points
HN discussionThis article is pretty good on piecing it stuff like this together: https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/01/12/javascript_deobfu...
Comment linking /blog/2015/01/12/javascript_deobfuscation
on “JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript”Submitted SSD Storage – Ignorance of Technology Is No Excuse as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHere's the recent one that has us all with a worried frown: https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-sto... "... A stored SSD, without power, can start to lose data in as little as a single week on the shelf. ..." The key, it seems, is temperature change.
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/24
on “Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last”Submitted SSDs evidence storage issues as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNo you wouldn't switch an in use disk of in a data centre; but you would for archival cold storage; such as legal evidence: (From: https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24 ) > Digital evidence storage for legal matters is a common practice. As the use of Solid State Drives (SSD) in consumer and enterprise computers has increased, so too has the number of SSDs in storage increased. When most, if not all, of the dri…
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/24
on “A Loud Sound Shut Down a Bank's Data Center for 10 Hours”Submitted LinkedIn Revisited – Full 2012 Hash Dump Analysis as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm the author of this post. Looks like some of you want the JS used that was analyzed, so here it is: https://blog.korelogic.com/2015/01/12/javascript_deobfuscati... (pass: infected)
Comment linking /2015/01/12/javascript_deobfuscation/malJS.zip
on “Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation”Submitted LinkedIn Revisited – Full 2012 Hash Dump Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe paper took something out of context, didn't really understand what it reads and published nonsense. The original blog post linked from the article is https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24#ssds-evidence-sto... It actually raises a point for a specific use-case, when a computer with an SSD is taken for analysis (f.ex. a court case as evidence by the police) the SSD is kept powered off and may lose its data an…
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/24
on “SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days”Submitted Without power, SSD can start to lose data in as little as a week as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's been tons of dumps posted. Normally I see the download or magnet links on Reddit or HN. Even with hashes people have broken 69% [0] to 85% [1] of the accounts. There's mailing list or forums for various related tools (cracking tools, gpu cracking, have I been pwned, etc.) that discuss these kinds of things, including where to get the passwords and/or hashes. One of the summaries claimed that 3% of the cracke…
Comment linking /blog/2016/05/19/linkedin_passwords_2016
on “LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident”Submitted SSD Storage – Ignorance of Technology Is No Excuse as a story · 2 points
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