[RSS] Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse-Engineering

#ReverseEngineering

https://op-co.de/blog/posts/samsung_wb850f_firmware/

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

[RSS] SSD Advisory – NVMS9000 Information Disclosure

https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-nvms9000-information-disclosure/

AlligatorConEU returns to Krakow - Sept 5-6 (conference), Sept7 (BBQ+workshops)

https://alligatorcon.eu

Bribes for invites are game, as shown here by Clarissa:

They... they let it read The Onion 🤣

[RSS] Inside the iOS bug that made deleted photos reappear

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/inside-the-ios-bug-that-made-deleted-photos-reappear

Now that eating glue is a hot topic, I have a serious question:

This phenomenon seems to be prevalent in the US and as a European I have no idea how it works. Do you have glue that tastes good? You get high? Is it safe with specific kinds of glue?

We recently watched a Powerpuff Girls episode about this too (see pic), and unfortunately I failed to fulfill my kid's curiosity in the topic, please help!

$60 million well spent

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

New from 404 Media: a hacker targeted a scam call center, broke in, then emailed the scam victims to warn them they’d been scammed. Also stole source code of the scammer’s tools. Here is the email: https://www.404media.co/hacker-breaches-scam-call-center-emails-its-scam-victims/

We must protect privacy, even in the face of cryptocurrency crime. As governments crack down on one of the most notorious tools for criminal money laundering in the cryptocurrency world, I’m worried about the ramifications.

https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #TornadoCash #newsletter #CitationNeeded

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

Finally got around to publishing the slides of my OffensiveCon talk from ~two weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!

The V8 Heap Sandbox: https://saelo.github.io/presentations/offensivecon_24_the_v8_heap_sandbox.pdf

Fantastic conference, as usual! :)

We should start using phrases such as "AI infested" in regards to software.

The USB Cart of Death: Plug and Pray - Interview with Raymond Chen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hm3NzLeO8

This is basically a HW USB fuzzer :D

More details with photo: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240521-00/?p=109786

[RSS] Chaining N-days to Compromise All: Part 6 — Windows Kernel LPE: Get SYSTEM

https://medium.com/@vr-blog/chaining-n-days-to-compromise-all-part-6-windows-kernel-lpe-get-system-83cd756ce90a?source=rss-4b564abdafa3------2

I'm currently downloading books from Library Genesis I legally own physically *and* digitally because the quality is just that good.

Also download availability/speed really brings back memories of working through a week in DC++ to find and download half of an album in MP3 (and two trojans).

Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Here are the top three things to teach everyone (including yourself).

1. Empathy.
2. The scientific method of thinking.
3. Knowing when you’re not qualified to have an opinion, and who is.

Those, in that order, before any other topic.

1. Will guide everyone to positive action and avoid dehumanising behaviour.
2. Will guide you *how to learn* and how to identify bad conclusions. It will help you understand the world and avoid being made a dupe.
3. Will stop your ignorance from hurting others.