AFL++ v4.32c release - mostly minor bug fixes and improvements, LLVM 20 users should update! https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/releases/tag/v4.32c #afl #fuzzing #fuzzing-tools #fuzzingtools
Interesting Git repos of the week:
Strategy:
* https://github.com/TalEliyahu/awesome-CISO-maturity-models - modelling your strategy
Detection:
* https://github.com/yevh/TaaC-AI - threat modelling as code
* https://github.com/thalesgroup-cert/Watcher - build your own threat hunting platform with Thales
* https://github.com/microsoft/msticpy - Microsoft's TI tooling
Exploitation:
* https://github.com/specfy/stack-analyser - what's in the stack?
Hardening:
* https://github.com/nistorj/ISR1000 - guestshell on the ISR1000
Don’t forget to patch your #forgejo tomorrow! (Security related)
https://floss.social/@forgejo/114433179035067022
I'm proud to announce that myself and @atipriyabajaj have created the Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE), which will be co-located at CCS 2025. https://sure-workshop.org/
Please follow our workshop account @sureworkshop and RT it for visibility :).
Here's something counterintuitive to non-practitioners: curve P-521 is often less secure in practice than curve P-256.
The latter is more popular, and so better tested. The risk of implementation bugs dwarfs the risk of partial cryptanalysis of ECC, so picking P-521 optimizes for the wrong thing.
Intel's 386 processor (1985) moved the x86 architecture to 32 bits, but it needed to be backward compatible with earlier 16 and 8-bit processors. As a result, it needed complicated circuitry for its internal registers: six different circuits for 30 registers. Let's look at the silicon circuits. 1/N
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
Unsurprisingly, an advertising company is finding more places to run ads.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/google-is-quietly-testing-ads-in-ai-chatbots/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social