Starting Thursday, Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from computers across the United States and replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution without warning.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-deletes-itself-installs-ultraav-antivirus-without-warning/

Safe C++: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3390r0.html

By the author of Circle, a C++ standards proposal that essentially plops a copy of Rust onto C++. Starting with lifetimes and borrow checking and unsafe blocks, but then: A new kind of reference type. A new kind of move constructor. A whole new standard library, which borrows some of Rust's naming conventions (‘send', 'sync') and even renames ‘shared_ptr’ to ‘arc’. Enums (‘choice types’) and pattern matching. Slice types.

I like it.

One of the funny bits that didn't make it into our sshamble talks in Las Vegas: OpenSSH for Windows writes to the event log, but no longer filters dodgy characters, so you can troll your local admins:

(recent webcast version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5yRpdNbdBs)

You have MacOS? You hate that you can't copy/paste in Citrix? You love hacky scripts that might break any time? I made something for you:
[floyd.ch blog post]
Citrix copy/paste circumvention on MacOS, CitrixCopyPasta
https://www.floyd.ch/?p=1401

* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago.
* Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs).
* Still no CVE assigned (there should be at least 3, possibly 4, ideally 6).
* Still no working fix.
* Canonical, RedHat and others have confirmed the severity, a 9.9, check screenshot.
* Devs are still arguing about whether or not some of the issues have a security impact.

I've spent the last 3 weeks of my sabbatical working full time on this research, reporting, coordination and so on with the sole purpose of helping and pretty much only got patronized because the devs just can't accept that their code is crap - responsible disclosure: no more.

IBM Datacenter on Toronto's King Street in 1963

back in 2013, @sima published a i915/GEM Crashcourse explaining the Linux kernel i915 GPU driver; I read that earlier this year, and it was really helpful for understanding what is going on in the i915 code and understanding the context of CVE-2024-42259.

I think without that explainer, it would have taken me a long time to understand what GTT MMIO mappings are. The idea that some physical address region owned by the GPU proxies physical memory accesses based on GPU page tables is pretty mindblowing...

Oh those sneaky bastards. I moved to moderated registrations on Infosec.exchange where new signups have to enter a reason for joining. That’s turned out to be a very good filter. Until now.

I just suspended an account for spam and looked at their reason for joining which was this:

I’m a cybersecurity enthusiast with a background in [your background, e.g., IT, software development]. I’m keen on sharing knowledge, staying updated on the latest security trends, and engaging with professionals in the field. I want to contribute to discussions on best practices and learn from the community to enhance my skills. Thank you for considering my application!

I wasn’t overly picky about reasons for joining - if it seemed like an actual person that was here for some reason other than marketing, seo, etc, I’d approve it. But this reason is clearly generated by an llm, and gave them an instruction to replace some text in brackets, which they did not do.

KVM Forum 2024 is being live streamed!

https://www.youtube.com/live/0P_vLo9IHBw?si=w13Aj_9X-OYMJO3K

Your efforts in saving energy matter!

"An AI-generated bot account was able to comment “PUSSY IN BIO” on 2.1 million Instagram posts, all thanks to you switching from AC to a big box fan that just kind of pushes the stale, hot air in your apartment around. We’re building a better world—together."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-department-of-energy-wants-you-to-know-your-conservation-efforts-are-making-a-difference

Here are the slides of my "Simple Machine Learning Techniques for Binary Diffing (with Diaphora)" talk given at the @44CON conference last week:

https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora-ml/blob/main/docs/diaphora-ml-techniques-44con-final.pdf

#44con #Diaphora #MachineLearning #ReverseEngineering #BinaryDiffing

Open to Exploitation: The Security Risks of Unauthenticated Pager Networks https://telescope.ac/petazzoni/kl9ki6zsn62bsb03l694dz

Status this morning :)

Planck lengths per qubit

Binwalk v3 now under active development. Faster, smarter, Rustier.

Beta testers and bug reports welcome!

https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/tree/binwalkv3

Working on some photos and videos from our ribbon cutting event for the new Adafruit factory in Industry City, Brooklyn, NY - USA! Here's a preview! 🎀✂️🏭🗽🇺🇸 Special thanks to the President of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the Managing Director of Industry City, and the Vice President of Partnerships at the NYC EDC! More soon, it's Sunday after a loooong week and we are zonked!