Does Tidal compensate artists fairly? I'm ready to ditch Spotify, but I'd like to do it the right way.

Sophos security advisory 19 December 2024: Resolved Multiple Vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall (CVE-2024-12727, CVE-2024-12728, CVE-2024-12729)

• CVE-2024-12727 (9.8 critical) pre-auth SQL injection vulnerability in the email protection feature of Sophos Firewall
• CVE-2024-12728 (9.8 critical) weak credentials vulnerability potentially allows privileged system access via SSH to Sophos Firewall
• CVE-2024-12729 (8.8 high) post-auth code injection vulnerability in the User Portal allows authenticated users to execute code remotely in Sophos Firewall

Sophos has not observed these vulnerabilities to be exploited at this time.

#sophos #firewall #vulnerability #cve #infosec #cybersecurity

@cR0w I'm not subscribed to that and it's too end-of-Q4 Friday to look them up...

Security Bulletin: #IBMi is vulnerable to bypassing Navigator for i interface restrictions and a server-side request forgery [CVE-2024-51463, CVE-2024-51464]

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7179509

Somebody tell Elon: "Never go full retard."

Why AI language models choke on too much text
Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/why-ai-language-models-choke-on-too-much-text/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Heads up: Folks on #Codeberg

You might get an email belittling your project, seemingly from Michael Bell (mikedesu) via noreply@codeberg.org (an issue is created on your repo and then deleted, leading to the notification).

This appears to be part of a smear campaign someone is running that started on GitHub. e.g., see:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/github-projects-are-being-targeted-with-malicious-action-in-apparent-attempt-to-frame-researcher

CC: @Codeberg – hope you can identify the account(s) responsible and block them. Example (deleted) issue: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/216

@jgeorge @masek Nah, retro computer viruses are the best!

https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum

#Physics Girl #DoingBetter after #LongCovid

I owe this YouTuber a lot. She educated people on physics. Took them to places.
More than 2 years ago she got really sick with Covid that soon became Long-Covid. Earlier messages from her [partner] she was barely alive, non responsive.
If you want to check out her channel:
-> Physics Girl <-
-> youtube.com/@physicsgirl <- And please do.

Now she gives a very happy sign of emprovement I'm happy to share:

"Hello from Dianna! - Two years in bed"
by physicsgirl

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/euCkKszuWDQ

Quote by PG:
"Nov 21, 2024
Here is a small update from Dianna herself! She hasn't been able to communicate directly here on Youtube for almost 2 years now. A quick hello and thank you!"

@chudypb Good luck!

[RSS] The Windows Registry Adventure #5: The regf file format

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-windows-registry-adventure-5-regf.html

[RSS] CVE-2024-44825 - Invesalius Arbitrary File Write and Directory Traversal

https://www.partywave.site/show/research/CVE-2024-44825%20-%20Invesalius%20Arbitrary%20File%20Write%20and%20Directory%20Traversal

It's official.

The US is totally nuts: 🇺🇸 🥜

"BITCOIN Act of 2024"
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4912/all-info

Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html

#frombsky

Wonderfully elegant term for exploit development from 1980: "Synthetic Programming"

https://literature.hpcalc.org/items/1718

Wow, a fairly serious auth bypass in Next.js, a super popular frontend framework:

If a Next.js application is performing authorization in middleware based on pathname, it was possible for this authorization to be bypassed.

https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-51479-next-js-authorization-bypass-vulnerability-affects-millions-of-developers/

Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI! https://worst.fit/assets/EU-24-Tsai-WorstFit-Unveiling-Hidden-Transformers-in-Windows-ANSI.pdf

@masek In 40 years my Lenovo will literally disintegrate