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50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

The Morning Paper

USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., Once the app has run in the rig for a while, the network traffic generated by the app is inspected to uncover leaked information. most apps).

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Delta: A Data Synchronization and Enrichment Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

caching (Memcached etc.), Issues: This needs to be implemented as a library and ideally without requiring code changes for the application using it. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen.

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How To Avoid Landing Page Redirects (10 min read)

Rigor

As an example, we see that the preferred address to access the online edition of the New York Times is [link] (we received an HTTP response code of 200 when requesting the site). Rigor’s waterfall chart indicates that this address has been permanently moved (given that we received an HTTP response code of 301 ).

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Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation

The Morning Paper

UPDATE 2019-04-14: An author update has been published for this paper which details that with current browser versions, ServiceWorkers can only stay alive for about a minute after the user navigates away from the site. modify their code, monitor their outgoing traffic etc.). NDSS’19.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC. 9,108 – Old kernel.

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