We've completed a comparative security assessment of authorization policy languages: Cedar, Rego, and the OpenFGA modeling language.
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Australia really looked at GDPR and said “those fines are rookie numbers, mate”.
(from https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1597841957526568966 )
As @echo_pbreyer reminded us, EU member states have revived their effort to force-install a child pornography scanner on our phones again. This idea was rejected twice before, but they'll keep trying. Here's an English transcript of what I said about this in Dutch parliament last year: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/client-side-scanning-dutch-parliament/
My SharePoint RCE got fixed: CVE-2024-38018. Site Member privs should be enough to exploit.
I also found a DoS vuln that got patched today: CVE-2024-43466.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38018
Happy #PatchTuesday from Microsoft: 79 new CVEs, 4 NEW EXPLOITED ZERO DAYS:
EDIT: @BleepingComputer has mentioned that CVE-2024-38217 was marked publicly disclosed. Updated this to reflect it. See related reporting Microsoft September 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 79 flaws
#microsoft #vulnerability #zeroday #eitw #activeexploitation #cve
Measuring non-determinism in the Linux kernel
https://shape-of-code.com/2024/09/08/measuring-non-determinism-in-the-linux-kernel/