I could sympathize with both sides for various reasons at times (not James) but sometimes I still wanted to shake people. While still a teenager, Dana becomes involved with a young adult man, Marcus McCready, and while her father is displeased he does nothing to stop her as he knows McCready from his married life. The second half of the book is told by Chaurisse. We begin to understand why Gwen accepted her invisible secret hidden life. However -- soon both daughter's world collide. The truth is this story breaks our hearts ...but it's also 'enjoyable-to-read'. Our initial indication of malicious activity was the PlistBuddy process creating a LaunchAgent, so let’s explore the significance of that.

This is a story of lies, deceit, secrets and need. More than that, there's no other way I can think of to go into this but to talk about the book.. so I'll toss the old spoiler alert on right now for those who need it. Below is what the book is about and my opinion. The extent to which that has warped her is palpable as Dana recalls all the times her mum, Gwen, has taken her to spy on – Gwen prefers “surveil” – James’s public family. “We didn’t do damage to anyone but ourselves,” she explains. Still, the knowledge she holds over her half-sister electrifies the novel’s second half, which is narrated by Chaurisse, still unaware of her father’s double life. The girls have by then met at a science fair and become pals, with plain, academically unremarkable Chaurisse eager for some of Dana’s cool to rub off on her. She thinks of Dana as a “silver girl”, popular and smart, likening her to a “Barbie doll dipped in chocolate” when she first sees her. The Red Canary team is unclear as to how the virus spread to so many Macs, but noted that it exhibited properties that are common with malicious macOS adware. Before penning the amazing “An American Marriage”, author Tayari Jones wrote “Silver Sparrow” which is about two girls who are sisters, only one sister knows of the other. Confusing? It was for me, as Ms. Jones opened my eyes to families who live with secrets and others who are obliviously unaware. She opens her story with “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist”. Yikes! One reads of those stories, generally involving some strange religion, and these people live in desolate areas, off the grid so to speak. But in Ms. Jones novel, these girls live in Atlanta, contemporary Atlanta! Hoover is one of the freshest voices in new-adult fiction, and her latest resonates with true emotion, unforgettable characters and just the right amount of sexual tension.James 'wife' is named Laverne. Gwen accepts that James found Laverne first...and respects his wife's rights. After all, she has legal documents. ( I was laughing - thinking.... boy, that's all it takes - legal documents, huh.. - to be ok for your husband to have another wife and daughter? "ok, lol"!!! ). Dana and Chaurisse are the same age, however both girls do not possess the same level of knowledge about each other or about their father. Dana and her mother know all about Chaurisse and her mother; they live in their shadow. Every choice and step that Dana and her mother take is tempered by whether Chaurisse and her mother will be there or choose to do something similar. Dana is truly a “second”. Chaurisse and her mother have no idea that Dana exists. But Chaurisse “gets” her father on a daily basis, she lives with him and has the intimacy of a father-daughter relationship. Dana does not have any of this. Her father, while a weekly visitor, is a mystery and almost an intangible. Swallow stud earrings. Sterling silver. Dainty Sparrow Studs. Sparrow Bird Jewelry. Small delicate earrings. Tiny birds. Cute flying studs.

The ultimate goal of this malware is a mystery,” researchers said. “We have no way of knowing with certainty what payload would be distributed by the malware, if a payload has already been delivered and removed, or if the adversary has a future timeline for distribution.” The main portion of the story takes place during the 1980s in Atlanta, and is told from two points of view. The book begins with Dana, the bigamist’s secret daughter. The unfolding of the story with Dana's point of view, immediately put Dana as the sympathetic character. And as Dana told the story, I almost was able to believe that the father may have been doing somewhat right by her. Ms. Jones is such a skillful writer, in that she allowed me to buy completely into their life. The second half of the book focuses on Chaurisse, who is also a daughter of the bigamist’s, but by his first marriage – and thus his public relationship. From the beginning of Chaurisse's point of view, it becomes clear that what Chaurisse has is a true father and a much truer family experience.; poor Dana has the cast-offs. The contrast between each girl’s life becomes starker as the story unfolds. We learn that, incredibly, both Dana and her mother are invested in protecting the bigamist’s secret; they are invested in protecting their life in the shadows. I say incredibly, because at some point shouldn’t they become frustrated with being pushed to the side? At some point will they have a need to bring it to light? And how does the “first wife” not guess about the duplicity? Does she not wonder why her husband is gone every single Wednesday? Does she not notice that money is missing? Both wives have their own careers and truly are able to support themselves and their daughters. They are not in a situation where they are dependent on their man – the bigamist – to support them financially. So where does the emotional dependence come from? Why stay? The story does not explore these points directly asked, but they are explored implicitly. Though we haven’t observed Silver Sparrow delivering additional malicious payloads yet, its forward-looking M1 chip compatibility, global reach, relatively high infection rate, and operational maturity suggest Silver Sparrow is a reasonably serious threat, uniquely positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice,” Red Canary researchers wrote in a blog post published on Friday. “Given these causes for concern, in the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share everything we know with the broader infosec industry sooner rather than later.”

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Though we haven’t observed Silver Sparrow delivering additional malicious payloads yet, its forward-looking M1 chip compatibility, global reach, relatively high infection rate, and operational maturity suggest Silver Sparrow is a reasonably serious threat, uniquely positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice. Given these causes for concern, in the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share everything we know with the broader infosec industry sooner rather than later. Dana, the first narrator, is the daughter who knows. She's also the secret daughter, the one who lives in shame and has to watch her mom mooning after this man who doesn't even live with them. Her only consolation is that she's the "pretty" one, but pretty doesn't make up for not feeling loved, and as she watches Chaurisse, she becomes obsessed with this sister who doesn't know she exists, to the point where she starts finding excuses to be where she is. The Red Canary report contains indicators of compromise, such as files and file paths created and used by the malware, which can be used to detect infected systems. By contrast, the output of the file command from the extraneous Mach-O binary in version 1 would look like the following: updater: Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 executable, flags: Timeline

Silver Sparrow is also unusual because it's only the second known piece of malware capable of targeting Apple's new M1 ARM architecture Macs, and because it hasn't done anything yet. Macs located in 153 different countries are known to be infected, although the highest volumes are found in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Germany. a b c d e "Silver Sparrow macOS malware with M1 compatibility". Red Canary. 2021-02-18. Archived from the original on 2021-03-25 . Retrieved 2021-03-31. Silver Sparrow is the third novel by the American author Tayari Jones, which was first published in 2011 by Algonquin Books. The novel follows the complicated relationship between two families, joined together by a bigamist father. Jones was inspired to write the book by her own relationship with her sisters who were over a decade older than her and who she felt lived very different lives than her own. [1] In 2019, the writer and actress Issa Rae announced plans to adapt the novel into a film. [2] Plot [ edit ] While out shopping Chaurisse meets a young girl and saves both of them from being caught shoplifting. The girl is named Dana, and Chaurisse grows infatuated with her believing she is a "silver" girl who is beautiful and leads a charmed life. The two become friends with the shy Dana eventually meeting and befriending Laverne as well.

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Jones beautifully evokes Atlanta in the 1980s while creating gritty, imperfect characters whose pain lingers in the reader’s heart. a b c Alexis Benveniste (21 February 2021). "Nearly 30,000 Macs reportedly infected with mysterious malware". CNN . Retrieved 2021-02-21. macOS Malware Silver Sparrow Affects About 40,000 Macs Running Both Intel and ARM Chips". CPO Magazine. 2021-03-04. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04 . Retrieved 2021-03-28.