Sleep deprivation is a form of torture.
Unless you are a parent, in which case it is a form of "children are a blessing, you wanted this, you're on your own, suck it up, good luck."
Time to update microcode on your Intel processors (gen >9)...
New speculative prediction bug lets you capture /etc/shadow with 99% reliability. They didn't make anything like it work on AMD or ARM... yet...
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01247.html
https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/tag/microcode-20250512
there's something beautifully wrong about trying to advertise copilot to a windows 98 machine.
Me and the homies are dropping browser exploits on the red team engagement 😎. Find out how to bypass WDAC + execute native shellcode using this one weird trick -- exploiting the V8 engine of a vulnerable trusted application.
https://www.ibm.com/think/x-force/operationalizing-browser-exploits-to-bypass-wdac
Holy wow, XSS to RCE in Restricted Mode in VSCode. What a find!
https://starlabs.sg/blog/2025/05-breaking-out-of-restricted-mode-xss-to-rce-in-visual-studio-code/
The schedule for #Pwn2Own Berlin is now live! We have three days of exploitation set - including our first AI entries. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/5/14/pwn2own-berlin-the-full-schedule #P2OBerlin
days like today I remember to do my breathing exercises and gently remind myself this is nothing an extinction level event cant fix
What does it mean to be a hacker? This semester, I taught a hacker history and culture class, which was a blast. In one assignment, my students paid tribute to the classic @phrack Pro-Phile -- a small bio on a famous hacker. Check out their pieces: https://cse194.mahaloz.re/prophiles.html
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CVE-2024-28956: Xen Security Advisory 469 v2: x86: Indirect Target Selection https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/5
A bug in the hardware support for prediction-domain isolation. An attacker might be able to infer the contents of arbitrary host memory, including memory assigned to other guests.
What happens if a cosmic ray hits a voting machine?
In Belgium’s 2003 elections, a relatively unknown Communist Party candidate received 4096 extra votes…from a spontaneous bit inversion.
It was more votes than was mathematically possible at that polling station.