Space Shuttle Interim Teleprinter reverse engineering

http://www.righto.com/2024/08/space-shuttle-interim-teleprinter.html

#reverseengineering #hardware

48 years ago yesterday.

@screaminggoat Saw that but didn't have the time to look into it. Thanks for the heads up anyway!

@raptor twitter @HaifeiLi

CVE-2024-5274 (Chrome V8 0day) official ticket with analysis and PoC

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/341663589

Autonomously Uncovering and Fixing a Hidden Vulnerability in SQLite3 with an LLM-Based System

https://team-atlanta.github.io/blog/post-asc-sqlite/

Fortra security advisories:

• GoAnywhere MFT (from 14 August 2024): Authentication bypass in GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.6.0 CVE-2024-25157 (6.5 medium)
• FileCatalyst (from 27 August 2024):
  • Insecure Default in FileCatalyst Workflow 5.1.6 Build 139 (and earlier) (9.8 critical) default credentials are published in a vendor knowledgebase article
  • SQL Injection in FileCatalyst Workflow 5.1.6 Build 139 (and earlier) CVE-2024-6632 (7.2 high)

No mention of exploitation. But shame on FileCatalyst for having hardcoded credentials. See related Bleeping Computer reporting: Fortra fixes critical FileCatalyst Workflow hardcoded password issue

#fortra #filecatalyst #goanywhere #cve #vulnerability

Galaxy brain of @haifeili :
"Instead the vendor (you believe it's recklessly) asking you to provide more info, you ask them to provide their testing env & steps first. You want me to make a screen recording? Show your recording first."

High level diff of iOS 18.0 beta 7 vs. iOS 18.0 beta 8 🎉

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs/blob/main/18_0_22A5346a__vs_18_0_22A5350a/README.md

📰 BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9

Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/binaryformatter-removed-from-dotnet-9/ #dotnet

[RSS] CVE-2024-37079: VMware vCenter Server Integer Underflow Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2024/8/27/cve-2024-37079-vmware-vcenter-server-integer-underflow-code-execution-vulnerability

[RSS] Reverse engineering a Windows HDD firmware updater

https://syscall.eu/blog/2024/07/01/toshiba_hdd_firmware/

@Muddobbers @reverseics yes, you can configure url suggestions to include open tabs!

Micropatches were released for Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30051)

Micropatches were released for "FakePotato" Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2024-38100)

The "FakePotato" issue was discovered by Andrea Pierini (@decoder_it) of Semperis (https://semperis.com) and detailed in this article:
https://decoder.cloud/2024/08/02/the-fake-potato/

Despite Microsoft's advisory (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38100) only mentioning Windows Servers as being affected, we found this issue also affects Windows 10/11 computers, including those we have security-adopted.

Fortunately, even though Microsoft didn't list Windows 10/11 as affected, they did patch FakePotato on them with July 2024 updates.

We'd like to thank Andrea Pierini (@decoder_it) for sharing the details and POC for this vulnerability, which allowed us to create patches for legacy Windows users who are no longer receiving Microsoft's patches.

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥

“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.

— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]

#Enshittification

According to https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:

Over the last 14.5 years:

HTML
2010: 20KB;
mid 2024: 33KB;
Increase of 65%.

Images
2010: 229KB;
mid 2024: 1,062KB;
Increase of 464%.

JavaScript
2010: 89KB;
mid 2024: 640KB;
Increase of 719%.

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Over the last 9 years:

Video
mid 2015: 173KB;
mid 2024: 3,872KB;
Increase of 2,238%.

I reckon that in the era of AI the JS gradient is gonna steepen significantly

#climateDiary

Holy shit, the Rijksmuseum used a 100MP Hasselblad camera to take almost eight and a half THOUSAND photos of the whole of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, for a total image size of 717 GIGAPIXELS. 😳

It's on their website as a zoomable image and you can zoom in so far you can see the individual cracks in the paint: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-photo

@gsuberland @malware_traffic
Sure, some footguns come with safeties, which won't please everybody.

That doesn't change the fact that 7-zip skipping MotW propagation was done for...
*checks notes*
performance reasons.

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/bugs/1649/