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For those of you who might like it: Here are the slides from my Alligatorcon talk:
https://gergelykalman.com/the-forgotten-art-of-filesystem-magic-alligatorcon-2024-slides.html
Mozilla, reading the room extremely well, seemingly just recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab you open. Clicking "Learn more" takes you here, with zero information on if your location is sent to AccuWeather every time you open a new tab: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-items-on-firefox-new-tab-page
Probably only noticed because I normally have a blank new tab page but this showed up after updating Firefox!
CISA: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 2, 2024
Sometimes I check the summary for hidden gems. This time, five of the Mozilla Firefox CVEs are CVSSv3.1: 9.8 critical
At a glance, they're obviously high severity. It's just that you won't have that sense of urgency at the time of announcement because you didn't see the CVSS score, or understand the impact.
Let's not forget to mention Hall of Shame Progress Software for having LoadMaster vulnerability CVE-2024-7591 with a perfect 10.0 🥳
@phil I think this one is pretty fresh: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-confirms-data-breach-after-hacker-claims-to-steal-440gb-of-files/
In part 2 of his #Exchange series, @chudypb describes the ApprovedApplicationCollection gadget. He also covers a path traversal in the Windows utility extrac32.exe, which allowed him to complete the chain for a full RCE in Exchange and remains unpatched.
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2024/9/11/exploiting-exchange-powershell-after-proxynotshell-part-2-approvedapplicationcollection
I really try to like Firefox, but the last 5 minutes really captures the kind of papercut that happens often:
- I open a new tab and firefox informs me it has updated itself and needs to restart and won't allow any further operations until it does so.
- Fine, I close and restart.
- I reopen Firefox to find a brand new sponsored weather widget on my otherwise blank new tab page - from a source I would never otherwise visit.
Thanks for breaking my flow and the privacy breach, I guess.