this is uh.
something.
perplexity is offering twice its valuation to buy chrome off google?
strong "run the fuck away" vibes
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/perplexity-offers-more-than-twice-its-total-valuation-to-buy-chrome-from-google/
Proud moment. The 40th anniversary @phrack release was a full success. We gave away 12,000 full color 150pg printed zines for free across three different conferences and did the final main stage talk before closing. l covered the history of phrack and did some panel questions.
FortMajeure: Authentication Bypass in FortiWeb (CVE-2025-52970) https://pwner.gg/blog/2025-08-13-fortiweb-cve-2025-52970
has anyone ever made a man page viewer which shows you a table of contents for the man page so you can easily navigate through the sections?
(please do not tell me about `info`)
CVE ID: CVE-2025-8088
Vendor: RARLAB
Product: WinRAR
Date Added: 2025-08-12
Notes: https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=283&cHash=a64b4a8f662d3639dec8d65f47bc93c5 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8088
CVE URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8088
We've managed to make it through hacker summer camp, and #Microsoft and #Adobe survived enough to deliver their latest security patches. Join @TheDustinChilds as he breaks down another large Patch Tuesday release. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/8/12/the-august-2025-security-update-review
NEW: Two hackers broke into the computer of a hacker allegedly working for the North Korean spy group known as "Kimsuky."
The hackers then leaked a treasure trove of stolen data, exposing a North Korean spy operation against South Korean targets.
“Kimsuky, you’re not a hacker. You are driven by financial greed, to enrich your leaders, and to fulfill their political agenda. You steal from others and favour your own. You value yourself above the others: You are morally perverted,” the two wrote in their Phrack magazine article. “You hack for all the wrong reasons.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/hackers-breach-and-expose-a-major-north-korean-spying-operation/
Just under three weeks until CFP opens for RE//verse 2026! Submissions open September 1st: https://sessionize.com/reverse-2026
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Absolutely jaw-dropping talk by Micah Lee on the blinding national-security incompetence at the highest levels of the Trump regime.
https://micahflee.com/we-are-currently-clean-on-opsec-the-signalgate-saga/
If this had been any Democratic govt, Fox "News" and the entire right-wing media gang would make it the top story for weeks, if not months.
Micropatches Released for Windows Disk Cleanup Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2025-21420)
https://blog.0patch.com/2025/07/micropatches-for-windows-disk-cleanup.html