I have released an OpenGraph collector for network shares and my first blogpost at @specterops on the subject!

You can now visualize attack paths to network shares in BloodHound 👀

https://specterops.io/blog/2025/10/30/sharehound-an-opengraph-collector-for-network-shares/

Apply all regulations to the last letter.

2 weeks left to drop your talk in the ring. CFP closes Nov 14! https://sessionize.com/reverse-2026

New post: Abusing macOS tclsh as shellcode loader

https://codecolor.ist/2025/10/31/macos-abuse-tcl-lol/

Happy Halloween 🎃

kind of funny that bugs that are communicated to vendors in a way they don't appreciate can result in no CVE being allocated for the vuln(s). while i guess it is bureaucratically legit (or is it?) it makes the CVE system an unreliable source of truth (more news at 11)
https://bird.makeup/users/0xmadvise/statuses/1983893375498776932

Oooh! Crowd Supply has finally posted a link to my talk at Teardown 2025 about trusting silicon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQCApAAT0s

Hello! Hello. It's #nakeddiefriday today, and I wanted to show you one of the older works. This is an automotive ASIC fabbed for Toyota, part number DF028. I do not know the function of this particular device.

SiPron page: https://siliconprawn.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:toyota:d028f

#electronics #reverseengineering #microscopy #automotive

✋ Stop writing #CSS yourself for your blog. Since 1998, the W3C provides a bunch of ready to use style-sheets: the W3C Core Styles. https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/Overview

Guaranteed to work on Netscape 4!

#retro #webdev

Today is 31 October 2025.

Twenty years ago today, on 31 October 2005, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich published a detailed description and technical analysis of First 4 Internet’s (F4I) XCP software, which he discovered had been secretly installed on his computer by a Sony BMG music CD.

The software was part of the CD’s digital component and automatically installed itself on Windows computers when the disc was inserted into a CD-ROM drive. A similar component for MacOS was blocked from automatic installation with Operating System confirmation prompts. The driver interfered with any attempt to rip audio CDs on that system and actively concealed itself to prevent detection or removal.

Russinovich compared XCP to a rootkit because of its covert installation and use of stealth techniques to hide its presence. He pointed out that the EULA made no mention of the software and argued that its behavior was illegitimate.

The security firm F-Secure agreed, stating: "Although the software isn't directly malicious, the rootkit hiding techniques it uses are exactly the same as those used by malicious software." Following public backlash, Symantec and other antivirus vendors added detection and removal for the rootkit, and Microsoft announced that it would include protection against it in its security updates.

XCP operated with high system privileges and contained numerous exploitable vulnerabilities, creating a serious security risk. That risk quickly became real: within weeks, several trojans and worms appeared that exploited flaws in the XCP software.

As the result of government investigations and class-action lawsuits, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements and a recall that affected about 10% of the affected CDs. It ceased the copy-protection efforts in 2007.

The Sony rootkit scandal only affected users that bought legitimate copies of music. Everybody who used Napster or Donkey to grab the MP3 was of course unaffected.

Sony has never apologized to its customers.

Timeline, in German:
https://netzpolitik.org/2005/rookit-sonys-digitaler-hausfriedensbruch/

Sony also produced, only one year later, the

https://www.engadget.com/2006-01-05-sony-vaio-xl2-digital-living-system.html

Like the XL1, the XL2 sports an HDMI video out, operation via wireless keyboard and remote, and an optional 200 CD/DVD changer for library management. Running Windows MCE 2005, the XL2 is harboring Intel Viiv inside

Sony also turned off the DRM-Servers for the Conect-Online Musicshop in March 2008, again fucking over all customers that paid for their content.

https://www.golem.de/0804/59229.html

In an interview 2012, Sony Music boss Edgar Berger said

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article13881492/Musikindustrie-Das-Internet-muss-frei-sein-nicht-umsonst.html

Das Internet ist für die Musikindustrie ein großer Glücksfall, oder besser gesagt: Das Internet ist für uns ein Segen.

"The Internet for us is a boon."

Whatever companies think, even today the only way to actually purchase content on the internet is to buy content without DRM, or buy content with removable DRM, downloiad and deDRM it immediately.

Have a media library. Make sure your stuff can use this media library. Back up your media library.

Anybody remember how twitter used to work over text message?

I think I broke that feature.

You could send and receive tweets, and do some basic interactions like following keywords - for example FOLLOW Guybrush Threepwood would text you any tweets about the classic Lucasarts Adventure Game series Monkey Island™.

So one day at work I had an idea. I took my Nokia and texted FOLLOW lol.

My phone immediately blew up. I got the next tweet someone posted that said lol. And the one after that.

I tried to text STOP lol but my phone couldn't multitask, so every new instance of lol interrupted my attempt to stop them. When my phone's text memory filled up (300!), I found out it deletes old texts and keeps going

So I turned my phone off to stop the flow (I didn't have unlimited texting, this was getting expensive!)

When I got home from the office, Twitter was down. For a while.

When it came back up, the text messaging feature did not come back up. Ever.

So #youtube is deleting videos of people showing how to install #Windows 11 on computers without TPMs and using local accounts. Can't imagine why.

So, please share mine! I make absolutely no money on my videos, I purely educate.
https://peertube.wtf/w/pqMrXFbzpJAS4r5NRj5o8j

Also 🖕 Microsoft