Reading the latest BLASTPASS writeup I can only wonder how many engineer hours must have gone into this thing. Incredible stuff!

seems close

My small child BlogFlock (https://blogflock.com) is a social RSS feed reader - share the blogs you follow with friends and strangers!

BlogFlock will always be free to use and never show you ads.

But running a feed aggregator is expensive at scale.

On top of BlogFlock's pretty decent feature set (if I say so myself), what features or service guarantees would convince you to spend $25/year on a social feed reader?

"The designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important."

-- Donald Knuth, “The Errors of TeX”

looks like the AI + MCP-assisted reverse engineering hype train is gaining steam! 🚂✨

in just the past few days, we've seen:
• @itszn13 integrating MCP into @vector35’s Binary Ninja (https://x.com/itszn13/status/1903227860648886701)
• @jh_pointer casually dropping his IDA MCP project, which I had to nerdsnipe myself into trying (https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/ida-mcp-server, https://x.com/bl4sty/status/1904631424663379973)
• @mrexodia rolling out a clean (judging by a quick code quality check) MCP implementation for IDA (https://github.com/mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp)
• @lauriewired dropping GhidraMCP for @nsagov’s Ghidra (https://github.com/LaurieWired/GhidraMCP)

these tools are early-stage but already hint at the potential for interactive RE software running on (semi) autopilot.

makes me wonder—should we formalize a set of MCP primitives across RE tools and unify them under one overarching framework? 🤔

of course, these aren’t silver bullets. but much like typical LLM usage, in the right hands, they could be powerful time-savers.

curious to see what comes next! might be time for hacking competitions focused on small/constrained binaries to start thinking about countermeasures against AI-assisted cheesing. 👀

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New Signal update just dropped

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@osxreverser Nah, they'll just wait until someone adds them to the group :P

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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).