Running a Mastodon server, Reverse Prompt Engineering, and 2022 reviews

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   Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server

   In Hanselminutes Podcast 872, Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud.

   Watch : Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server
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   Hunting for Amazon Cognito Security misconfigurations

   This is a talk that was delivered as part of NahamCon EU 2022 virtual conference. The topic outlines and discusses a few common security misconfigurations that affect Amazon Cognito implementation along with various techniques and methods to test against these security issues.

   Read : Hunting for Amazon Cognito Security misconfigurations
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   Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit

   For the non-technical folks, the term “prompt injection” was chosen to evoke SQL Injection, the third worst security vulnerability in traditional web applications.

   Read : Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit
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   A list of interesting macOS/iOS Kernel Security research in 2022 by Alex

   Read : A list of interesting macOS/iOS Kernel Security research in 2022 by Alex
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   Pass-the-Challenge: Defeating Windows Defender Credential Guard

   New techniques for recovering the NTLM hash from an encrypted credential protected by Windows Defender Credential Guard.

   Read : Pass-the-Challenge: Defeating Windows Defender Credential Guard