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#BOFH excuse #225:

It's those computer people in X {city of world}. They keep stuffing things up.

Project: mpengine-x64-pdb 1.1.24090.11
File: mpengine.dll
Address: 75ad42e40

powf

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I'm a really weird stage in my career - a bad point - where I'm having to go to prominent industry leaders and be like 'you realise that article you just shared about 90% of ransomware being from GenAI isn't real' constantly.

100% think a load of these people are thinking I don't know what I'm on about, because 1000 other industry leaders have told them about GenAI ransomware.

It's really interesting to watch though as basically China has played a blinder, Chinese whisper panic basically.

See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

Every now and then, someone shares a hilarious Kagi result. Now they'll have a place in the Kagi Bloopers hall of fame:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/bloopers/

We've integrated with Surveillance Watch, an interactive database that documents surveillance and spyware entities.

When searching for an entity that appears on their list, we'll display a banner on its domain to alert you that it's a known surveillance tech provider.

#Kagi #Search #Surveillance #Spyware #Privacy

Binary Ninja 5.2, Io, is live and it's out of this world! https://binary.ninja/2025/11/13/binary-ninja-5.2-io.html

With some of our most requested features of all time including bitfield support, containers, hexagon, Ghidra import, and a huge upgrade to TTD capabilities, plus a ton more, make sure to check out the changelog!

This is my new favorite #design #fail.

Your periodic reminder that most CLI password prompts accept Ctrl+U to fully clear input so you can try again. Leave that backspace key alone.

It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.

Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_Corpus

Y'all like AIX vulns, right? How about four of them? Okay well what if three are sev:CRIT? Fine, one is a perfect 10 if that's what it takes to get y'all to care. 🥳

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173

Vulnerabilities in AIX could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2025-36251, CVE-2025-36250), obtain Network Installation Manager (NIM) private keys (CVE-2025-36096), or traverse directories (CVE-2025-36236). These vulnerabilities are addressed through the fixes referenced as part of this bulletin. These vulnerabilities are exploitable only when an attacker can establish network connectivity to the affected host.

I wrote a proof-of-concept and writeup for CVE-2025-48593, an Android Bluetooth issue that only seems to affect devices that act as Bluetooth headsets / speakers. (i.e. NOT phones, only smartwatches/wearables/cars. And only after pairing. So you can stop worrying.)

https://github.com/zhuowei/blueshrimp

It should be a use-after-free; I haven’t gotten it to do anything interesting though.

So far, I was only able to get a null pointer deref (without malloc debug) or an attempted write to library rodata (with malloc debug).

Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.

Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

#Kagi #Search #AISlop

Update to 4.11.1 now if you use it

CVE-2025-43515
https://support.apple.com/en-us/125693

https://infosec.exchange/@codecolorist/115385827463979240

Whoopsie.

Socket Firewall is an HTTP/HTTPS proxy server that intercepts package manager requests and enforces security policies by blocking dangerous packages. Socket Firewall binary versions (separate from installers) prior to 0.15.5 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when run in untrusted project directories. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious .sfw.config file in a project directory. When a developer runs Socket Firewall commands (e.g., sfw npm install) in that directory, the tool loads the .sfw.config file and populates environment variables directly into the Node.js process. An attacker can exploit this by setting NODE_OPTIONS with a --require directive to execute malicious JavaScript code before Socket Firewall's security controls are initialized, effectively bypassing the tool's malicious package detection. The attack vector is indirect and requires a developer to install dependencies for an untrusted project and execute a command within the context of the untrusted project. The vulnerability has been patched in Socket Firewall version 0.15.5. Users should upgrade to version 0.15.5 or later. The fix isolates configuration file values from subprocess environments. Look at sfw --version for version information. If users rely on the recommended installation mechanism (e.g. global installation via npm install -g sfw) then no workaround is necessary. This wrapper package automatically ensures that users are running the latest version of Socket Firewall. Users who have manually installed the binary and cannot immediately upgrade should avoid running Socket Firewall in untrusted project directories. Before running Socket Firewall in any new project, inspect .sfw.config and .env.local files for suspicious NODE_OPTIONS or other environment variable definitions that reference local files.

https://github.com/SocketDev/firewall-release/security/advisories/GHSA-6c5p-vqrh-h6fp

The video for my TalosCon 2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity", is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5uN2634o

Slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/the-complexity-of-simplicity

Huge Ws for Rust adoption in Android!

Historically, security improvements often came at a cost. More security meant more process, slower performance, or delayed features, forcing trade-offs between security and other product goals. The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics.

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html

In our latest blog we speak with Marion Marschalek of @blackhoodie on how community fuels career, how one challenge led to many opportunities and how you can get involved.
https://hex-rays.com/blog/blackhoodie-interview-2025