@wdormann @http IME devil is in the details and having another (easy to use) tool on your belt is always useful. But conceptually you are right of course.

@wdormann @http Admin->Kernel is still useful for attackers though, esp. for disabling endpoint protection.

@cR0w @screaminggoat @wdormann Idiocracy is a very fitting reference here

There are rumor swirling that there might be some upcoming Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) CVEs being released soon.

I feel bad for anybody needing to decipher what Ivanti product versions are vulnerable to what CVE.

The Ivanti advisories use confusing language that is unclear if it's referring to which versions are fixed, and which are affected. The CVE entries don't mention which versions contain the fix. And the release notes...
Can somebody smarter than myself decipher what order the security patches are listed in? It's not by order of CVE ID, and it's not by order of ICS version. Which leaves... ?

If we are indeed about to have an Ivanti fire drill, good luck folks.

In case it wasn't posted here already, Project Zero is hiring!
See https://t.co/bA3FT6ZbzH

(please RT for reach - thank you!)
Learned a cool new Linux trick? Know an interesting quirk in a network protocol? Or have something else to share?

Write a 1-page article for the #6 issue of Paged Out! :)
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Soft deadline is Feb 1st.

Donating to the Wikimedia Foundation is great. Becoming a volunteer editor is even better.

https://youtu.be/bRRHR1NEOqE

#wikipedia

From over at the Bad Place:
https://gist.github.com/alfarom256/f1342f14dc6a742de7ea4004a1b6d7ed

IObit Malware Fighter has a driver device called IMFForceDelete123.
When you call the only exposed IOCTL to this device, 0x8016E000, along with a specified path, the Windows kernel will delete the specified file/directory. NTFS ACLs don't matter because we're the kernel.

Who is allowed to interact with this device? EVERYONE.

The more software you have on your system, the less secure it is.

New vulnerability report from Talos:

Progress WhatsUp Gold SnmpExtendedActiveMonitor path traversal vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2089

CVE-2024-12105

@slp This keyboard is tripping balls

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible.

— E. W. Dijkstra

#complexity

[RSS] Capturing the Flags of the Internet: Find 0-days in OSS and write scanners to detect them

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6752136441233408/capturing-the-flags-of-the-internet-find-0-days-in-oss-and-write-scanners-to-detect-them

Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments - watchTowr Labs https://labs.watchtowr.com/more-governments-backdoors-in-your-backdoors/

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@atomicpoet @dansup Worse: it created friction for legit use-cases (that can't be undone!), creates ~0 friction for illegitimate ones *while* giving a false sense of security.

Limiting discovery is def in the top3 stupidest ideas I've seen during my long time on the Web.

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@Ange you know when some smart bureaucrat draws black rectangles over paragraphs then someone on the Internet does a Ctrl+A Ctrl+C Ctrl+V and publishes the whole text layer

@Ange considering impact: select to unredact :)

Confirmed. ChatGPT is actively indexing the Fediverse, even small servers like mine who have not explicitly consented to their indexing.

So while people on Mastodon got angry about Mastodon having built-in discovery features, ChatGPT just went ahead and slurped up all your posts.