Trump to Add Chinese Chipmaker SMIC to Defense Blacklist: Sources

The Trump administration could add China's top chipmaker SMIC and national offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, according to a document and sources, curbing their access to US investors. This could escalate tensions between US and China weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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Home Lab Deep Dive: a VM Focused Setup

  I am in the cyber security industry, so I try to stay up to date on the new and the perennially popular technologies. I’m working on setting up a workflow to practice bringing in dirty malware files and safely analyze them. My whole stack of gear sits in my living room, right next to the family couch. When friends come over, it’s always a conversation piece–I assume I’m the only friend they have with a miniature data center in their living room. I’l
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