Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@timb_machine/116068550511596363

If there's anyone on here that works at GitHub, do you think you could remind your support team to check their emails.

For reasons unknown you decided to suspend my account a week ago and I'm yet to even get a response that a ticket has been opened to investigate. I'm sure there's a reason (although I suspect it's debatable) but it would at least be nice to hear from you that it's being looked at.

#github

Before launch, Perplexity hired us to test the security of Comet, their AI browser assistant. We demonstrated how four prompt injection techniques could extract users' private information from Gmail. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/20/using-threat-modeling-and-prompt-injection-to-audit-comet/

SGI stack overflow 😱
booting the IRIS Indigo R3k..

Just shipped updates for rhabdomancer, haruspex, and augur. Now compatible with @HexRaysSA IDA 9.3 and @xorpse's idalib-rs 8.0.

These headless #IDA plugins are built for #VulnerabilityResearch workflows where you want IDA's power without the GUI. This release brings a bunch of small improvements and bug fixes.

https://hnsecurity.it/blog/streamlining-vulnerability-research-with-the-idalib-rust-bindings-for-ida-9-2/

I'm pleased to announce a new release of the Rust bindings for @HexRaysSA IDA SDK! This release includes v9.3 compatibility.
Code: https://git.idalib.rs
Docs: https://docs.idalib.rs
Thank you to @yegor who contributed to this release, and to @HexRaysSA for their support.

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money.

“Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-awaits-anyone-who-can-hack-ring-cameras-to-stop-sharing-data-with-amazon/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Weld/116100770024505311

One of my best memories was staying up all night drinking and exchanging stories with Par at a DEF CON decades ago. Stores about him inspired me in my earlier days, and to finally get to "meet your hero" left a lasting impression.

"Parmasterisgod" is legend in the old school circles, a story I heard second hand many years and many times before I got to meet him to hear it first hand.

I'll definitely have a drink this evening and talk to some friends and share Par stories.

After decades of research, a seemingly unremarkable find retrieved from a Roman shipwreck proved to be a sensational scientific discovery, proving that the ancient Greeks were capable of making mechanical models of the cosmos. The Antikythera Mechanism is the world‘s first known analog computer.

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/11/an-ancient-greek-computer/

My virtual replica:

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/

#history #sciencehistory #antiquity #archaeology #astronomy #digitalhumanities #mathematics #physics #astrophysics

The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane."

the watchers: how #openai, the US government, and #persona built an identity #surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/

Just posted a little follow-up on the #Messenger asset format #Microsoft uses!

https://vito.io/articles/2026-02-19-the-specification

Includes a PDF with the whole spec for nerds tagging along! <3

#retrocomputing #reverseengineering #windowslivemessenger #writing #blog #smallweb