Anybody knows what Asimov is in MS lingo? :)

I think the ICO did a brilliant job with that report, it’s bang on the money.

They basically hadn’t implemented MFA for all Citrix Netscaler users,

hadn’t patched for ZeroLogon on customer systems (a vuln I worked on at MS two years before the Advanced incident, that I personally made sure sure was widely publicised),

didn’t do vuln management on customer systems,

ignored pentest findings,

then descoped customer systems to lie about Cyber Essentials Plus coverage to customers.

Back in 2022, there was wide scale disruption to the NHS (healthcare) in the UK due to LockBit ransomware at Advanced.

They have paid a £3m fine to the ICO, who have published their 58 page PDF investigation. Worth a read for findings.

https://cy.ico.org.uk/media2/gdlfddgc/advanced-penalty-notice-20250327.pdf

The £3m fine is due to failures to run Vulnerability Management correctly and failure to enforce MFA.

A thread about some other things:

@kaoudis I have plenty of experience with technically competent people messing up 1) risk assessment 2) communication, so I'd write this off as incompetence, but that should be called out too (esp. since based on the latest post they seem to think they've done everything right).

Tuesday's cryptic message about atop turns out to be a local memory corruption issue, but details are unclear:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/26/2

What is clear to me is that the original "warning" was a shameful example of spreading FUD...

CVE-2025-31160 was issued to track the problem.

Project: mpengine-x64-pdb 1.1.24090.11
File: mpengine.dll
Address: 75a810cc4

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Our first keynote from Natalie is live! Want to find fully-remote bugs? Learn more about her workflow and lessons learned from a true expert in the field. Bonus: during the Q&A you can learn that even just finding a single obscure file format can be what it takes to find a bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOr1F-Tx1Zg

For those who missed it, here's last year's OffensiveCon talk about BLASTPASS explaining what P0 understood at that time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZawX9I9MM6Y

I have a question: In Signal, imagine that a new device gets added to your phone as a Linked Device. What sort of notification would you receive on your primary device (phone)? Are there photos of the current workflow here? This article https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability asserts that recently Signal added UI to prevent user getting phished and unknowingly adding a linked device. What did they add?

@nixfreak no and tbf I don't really want to provide support for some half-baked stuff, so please just stick to upstream until x64 support gets merged or maybe comment on the relevant PR's if you think you found a bug in them (#97 tracks x64 support).

[RSS] Llama's Paradox - Delving deep into Llama.cpp and exploiting Llama.cpp's Heap Maze, from Heap-Overflow to Remote-Code Execution

https://retr0.blog/blog/llama-rpc-rce

[RSS] Blasting Past Webp

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html

An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit

@xgranade Relevant article: LLMs use a lot of the same techniques as psychics' "cold reading" to convince people they know more than they do.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

@nixfreak submodules maybe? also pls note that I linked an experimental branch, you'll be better off with upstream. if you encounter problems please use the GH issue tracker so others can learn from the answers too!

If it annoys you— as it somewhat does me— that the precise definition of the Rust programming languages is "vibes" and "three separate PDFs, none of them authoritative" and "well, whatever the reference compiler does is the language", this is pretty neat news. https://mastodon.social/@rustfoundation/114229759326166359

When you do this, you think you’re showing how savvy, smart, or “realistic” you are. What you’re actually doing is wasting the time of, and demoralizing, the people who are actually working to try to stop the thing you’ve already surrendered to.

Protip: if someone posts a technical or legal analysis of something the administration is doing or proposing and your response is that legalities are irrelevant and a waste of time, the problem is YOU.

You know who wants you to think laws don’t matter anymore and that pushback is hopeless? Fascists.

Don’t act like a fascist.

Conservative folklore peeps in Hungary: "Folktales carry our Traditional Values and the Ancient Wisdom of Our Ancestors. They follow a strict set of Traditional Rules"

Literal Hungarian folktales I found in archives:

- Princess Rosalia Lemonfarts

- The Diamond Prince in a Rubber Suit

- The Magic Flying Penis

- Rapunzel, but it's a bloke who makes a rope from his body hair

- Saint Peter got drunk and puked the first 🌈

- The Princess who became a Prince

#folklore #folktales #storytelling

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