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Microsoft/Windows Mess

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2023

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Creating a YARA Rule to Detect Obfuscated Strings, (Mon, Sep 4th)

=> ↺ Creating a YARA Rule to Detect Obfuscated Strings, (Mon, Sep 4th)

I wrote a blog post "Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs" on how to analyse PDF/ActiveMime polyglot malicious document files and also developed a YARA rule to detect them.

=> ↺ Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs | ↺ YARA rule

=> ↺ Quickpost: Analysis of PDF/ActiveMime Polyglot Maldocs | ↺ YARA rule

Hitman Makers IO Interactive Comes to Rescue With a Hiring Alert After the Recent Layoffs in the Industry

=> ↺ Hitman Makers IO Interactive Comes to Rescue With a Hiring Alert After the Recent Layoffs in the Industry

Despite starting 2023 well, tech companies are right now on the verge of a big wave of layoffs. The layoff surge is affecting the gaming industry the most. Big names in the world of gaming like Ubisoft, Take-Two, Riot Games, and CD Project Red have joined this wave by laying off their employees to a massive extent.

Microsoft Cloud Tools Vendor SkyKick Lays Off 140 Employees [Ed: Microsoft's implosion is followed by its partners']

=> ↺ Microsoft Cloud Tools Vendor SkyKick Lays Off 140 Employees | ↺ Microsoft's implosion

SkyKick, recognised for its migration and backup products for Microsoft 365, has announced a global workforce reduction of over 100 people.

Todd Schwartz, one of SkyKick's co-CEOs based in Seattle, described the layoff as a difficult decision made in reaction to market conditions in a statement given to CRN.

“We are well positioned and remain steadfastly committed to ensuring our partners’ success in the cloud over the long-term,” Schwartz said.

While the statement did not identify the specific percentage of employees affected by the layoffs or provide a post-layoff headcount, it did reveal that 140 people were released globally, with 98 of these workers situated in the United States.

Debugging App Crashes on Windows [Ed: KDE wasting time and resources working for Microsoft]

=> ↺ Debugging App Crashes on Windows

The other week the question came up how one can debug an application crash when the Windows Store crash tracking system is unable to produce a usable stack trace.

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