Hey #infosec folks, if you've bridged your account to #Bluesky using BridgyFed (https://fed.brid.gy/) let me know so I can add that bridged account to a starter pack there. 👍

Would be great to highlight the infosec people who are here, over there.

Boost around so I can nab everyone! 🚀

- Why was ollydbg discontinued?
- Not enough ollyfans

NEW: WhatsApp forced a judge to release previously non-public court documents, which include a ton of details on how NSO's spyware works.

The documents show how NSO targeted WhatsApp, the number of customers the company had to cut off because of abuse, and more.

Here are the biggest revelations.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/nso-group-admits-cutting-off-10-customers-because-they-abused-its-pegasus-spyware-say-unsealed-court-documents/

Slides for my @ekoparty talk "Advanced Fuzzing
With #LibAFL"

• >https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILXdsBx6JJbsf3uq-_hSeYux-a0DRRPxebOY65EDE5o/edit?usp=sharing

A bit of history.

On September 5, 1977,
the Voyager 1 hardware
was yeeted towards interstellar space.

Four years later, in 1981, the backup S-band portion of the communications hardware was shut off.

In October of 2024, after a partial degradation of the primary X-band communications interface, the backup S-band communications automatically came back online due to the fault, after a period of 43 years offline.

THAT is appliance-grade engineering.

Just registered the 38c3 assembly "ITAR Violators". Hope to see your ITAR controlled items!

Google Security: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++
Google is retrofitting secure-by-design principles to their existing C++ codebase wherever possible, including bringing spatial memory safety into as many codebases. It has already made a noticeable impact, from preventing exploits, reducing crashes and improving code reliability/easier debugging.

#google #security #securebydesign #memorysafety #vulnerability #memory #infosec #cybersecurity

Missed out on the action at #r2con2024 in Barcelona? #NowSecure researcher and #radare2 co-creator @pancake put together a recap of all three days, including all the recordings, slides, and GitHub repositories. Check it out here: https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2024/11/15/nowsecure-at-r2con2024-top-takeaways-and-mobile-security-highlights/?utm_source=mastodon

A huge thanks to everyone who joined us and made this comeback event a success after a 5-year break! #r2con #radare #frida

Pandoc compiled to Wasm (WebAssembly), which enables live conversions in the browser.

• Live demo: https://tweag.github.io/pandoc-wasm/

• Repository: https://github.com/tweag/pandoc-wasm

Amazing work by @terrorjack and the ghc-meta-wasm folks!

#pandoc #Wasm #ghc

Yet another memory corruption bug caught thanks to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end! 🐛🪲🐧

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/ZzZ-cd_EFXs6qFaH@kspp/

The maintainer has already taken this patch, and it will soon land in mainline and a couple of stable trees. 😃🐧

If you'd like to learn more about this work, feel free to check out this presentation:

https://embeddedor.com/blog/presentations/#Enhancing_spatial_safety_Fixing_thousands_of_-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end_warnings_LPCEU

This work aims to eradicate these types of memory corruption vulnerabilities from the kernel once and for all. 😀🙌🏽

Kernel Self-Protection Project ⚔️🛡️🐧