Kernel fuzzing on Mac with syzkaller
Guide to build a VM, add a vulnerable driver and crash it using syzkaller from macOS.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/infosec_news_in_brief/?td=rt-3a
switzerland has chucked microsoft out the window now too
Security product vulns are maddening but will also never not be funny to me.
Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Avast Antivirus on MacOS of a crafted Mach-O file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial of Service of antivirus protection.\nThis issue affects Antivirus: from 15.7 before 3.9.2025.
And another one:
Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Avast Antivirus on MacOS when scanning a malformed file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the anitvirus engine process.This issue affects Antivirus: from 8.3.70.94 before 8.3.70.98.
@R41N3RZUF477 the most concerning part of admin protection's design was just that UI Access seemed to not considered part of the boundary. Of the 9 bugs I reported, 5 were basically ways of getting control over a UI Access process and from there full admin. I think if you're going to break app compat anyway you might as well have done something more than UAC with bells on it.
I wasn't imagining things, Administrator Protection has indeed been pulled for now. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-control/administrator-protection/?tabs=intune#system-requirements
radare
🌍Making #radare2 more portable and accessible to new audiences has been always a priority for us.
At #r2con2025, @AbhiTheModder created a web frontend for #radare2 using the webassembly builds to allow Chromebook students reverse engineer crackmes from the browser!
• Select version of r2
• Create multiple tabs
• Keyboard driven
• Analyze large binaries
This sandboxed environment is ideal for education as well as for malware analysis and the whole toolchain can be used from the commandline with wasmer.
• Try it online https://r2.revengi.in
• HTML radare2 Widget https://radareorg.github.io/r2wasm/index.html
• Source code https://github.com/radareorg/r2web
• Watch the presentation 👇
🎅🎁 Ho ho ho #Telco📡! 5GC Pentest Burp Suite ext under the tree! 🔐🎄 https://github.com/PentHertz/5GC_API_Pentest ✨🎉🚀 #5GSecurity
Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!
This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member or volunteering for a youth association, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Interested people may sign it using one of the two following links.
The petition in german language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main
The petition in english language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany
News article (German): https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html
News article (English): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Petition-Open-source-work-should-count-as-volunteer-activity-11095357.html
The petition is organized by @webvision.
If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.
#deutschland #foss #floss #volunteer #ehrenamt #freiwilligkeit #openSource #freeSoftware
This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
🔜 39C3
Every Sora AI vid. burns 1 kW hour & emits 466 grams of carbon. The Sora 2 platform alone emits nearly a quarter of the carbon of all Meta/Facebook.
👉🏻 https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora-ai-video-burns-1-kilowatt