mvt VS build-your-own-x

Amnesty International released Mobile Verification Toolkit to check your phone for malware, by checking encrypted backups on your computer. https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

From what I was able to read previously, it has no ability to spread by itself and has to be installed by a targeted attack. There is also a tool from Amnesty International that can detect it (or was able to): https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

It is a race though, so past info may no longer be valid. However, I doubt it will ever be able to spread by itself, since it uses very expensive zero days to infect and they will be quickly fixed after detection.

Public Service Announcement:

Amnesty International has a program on GitHub with Citizens Lab for those keeping an eye out for additional protections

https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise.

You can do a backup of your phone and analyze said backup using digital forensics to see if for example "automated software" will detect any of the more mainstream spyware/hacks. You can use mobile verification toolkit (mvt) to do this, but it won't detect everything. It is however a good start, you can investigate the basic results with limited knowledge and if something is detected you can further it up to a digital forensics company because it will very highly likely be beyond your qualifications to analyze by yourself. Hope this helps.

I was extremly paranoid i got a virus a few months ago and i think i may have downloaded something. Its been more thank half a year and just remebered that i tried to download something from here,https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt i dont know if i was even sucessful, i am fully updated ios, cant find anything in files so i dont think i had it for very long and prob dealted after a whille

If you wanna check your phone, maybe try using this: https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

if android, this is available -- https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039706

Other resources:

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://github.com/AlgoryL/Projects-from-Scratch

https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

All suggestions are welcome,thanks in advance

Make sure that apart from learning you're using the knowledge to create something either your own idea or maybe something from https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x (with your own twist if possible.). It helps a lot to be working on something separately and seeing the results of your new knowledge outside of a tutorial scenario.

28. Build your own X

Do some projects. Come up with your own ideas or pick something from a list like https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

ello! i'm 20f and humanities student (ir/poli sci) with interest in coding since high school, but just now i have the time to start learning it. i opted for learning pyhton first mostly because i'm interested in automation, data analysis, plus was skimming over the tutorials of build your own x and was surprised that you can do a lot of things with just pyhton.

As for exercises there are plenty of programming task websites out there, most of them are quite boring but you can use a fun one like https://adventofcode.com/ . However the best things to work on are things you actually like so do some small projects. Games (start with command line stuff like hang-man) are common, otherwise pick something from https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x or whatever else ideas come to your mind.