Random objects: Intel Edison, or a look at the misadventures of x86 in the IoT space - https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/random-objects-intel-edison

If you are still doing this to your customers, you're not understanding what has happened in the world of technology since 2004 and you are part of the problem.

Urvile, of Legion of Doom, discusses dumpster diving at the Bellsouth phone company on NBC Dateline in 1992.
#hacker #hacking #history

The wonderful world of #OpenSource and #Mastodon! https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/112659983582469484 where Nina asks a question, I answer with a partial solution based on a little project by @vadim which is missing a specific feature. Vadim sits down, codes that missing feature, commits it, I pull his updates, build a new container and now we all have an even better way to turn Mastodon threads into copy/pasteable #Markdown.

https://mtr.wildeboer.net

That all happened in less than 5 hours!

I have rebased the #illumos / #solaris port of #Tailscale onto 1.68.1

https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.68.1-sunos

And here's my occasional Fedi outreach about my dream retrocomputer - does anyone have a Sun Ultra 45 they are willing to part with? I'm just a sad, pathetic person living in Arctic Sweden who has been trying for more than two decades (!!) to get his hands on one.

Boosts are definitely love.

#retrocomputing #unix #sun #solaris

Frankly, I'm appalled by the prospect of LLMs taking offensive security research jobs from honest, hard-working fuzzers

✍️ When Samsung Meets Mediatek - The story of a small bug chain by @max_r_b @pwissenlit Raphaël Neveu

https://www.sstic.org/media/SSTIC2024/SSTIC-actes/when_vendor1_meets_vendor2_the_story_of_a_small_bu/SSTIC2024-Slides-when_vendor1_meets_vendor2_the_story_of_a_small_bug_chain-rossi-bellom_neveu.pdf

so with the recent news i’ll ask again

does anybody have a uefi firmware image that includes kaspersky antivirus for uefi?

“For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally, so that you know at all times where you are, where you've been, where you're going and where you want to get. In scientific work and electronics technology this is necessary because otherwise the problems get so complex you get lost in them and confused and forget what you know and what you don't know and have to give up.”

- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

#engineering #space

NEW: The U.S. government has sanctioned 12 executives and senior leaders of Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky.

Notably, Eugene Kaspersky and company itself are not on the sanctions list.

These sanctions come a day after the U.S. government banned the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/21/u-s-government-sanctions-kaspersky-executives/

Has reliance on SSO left orgs with a single point of exploitation? Our latest research by Francesco Lacerenza explores various IdP compromise scenarios as well as how to harden and detect attacks in Teleport installations.
#doyensec #teleport #security

https://blog.doyensec.com/2024/06/20/compromised-idp.html

"Low-Level Software Security for Compiler Developers"

https://llsoftsec.github.io/llsoftsecbook/

#infosec #compilers

I feel like the Internet Archive debate hits differently in countries like the US and UK, and countries like Hungary.

I do tons of academic research. The volumes needed to keep up with academia often run $100+ each. And unless I order them from overseas (delivery $30-50 each) there is no access to them. Several don't have a copy *on the entire continent* (few Hungarian libraries do international loan but it takes large amounts of money and months.)

I imagine many countries are even worse off.

NEW: U.S. government bans sale of Kaspersky software in the country — both consumers and businesses — due to security and privacy risks from Russian government.

“First of its kind” sales ban starts on July 20. After Sept. 29 Kaspersky can't send updates to U.S. customers.

“Russia has shown it has the capacity, and even more than that, the intent to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal information of Americans. And that’s why we are compelled to take the action that we’re taking today,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a call with reporters.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/us-bans-kaspersky-software-security-risk-russia/

Can LLMs find vulns? Here’s what Project Zero found

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/project-naptime.html

Interested in decompiler design? You'll love our latest blog post! https://binary.ninja/2024/06/19/restructuring-the-decompiler.html

Not interested? You'll still love the massive improvements the latest update brings to control flow recovery! Simpler conditionals, flatter code depth, more accurate transformations, easier to read and understand. Everything is better.

CVE-2022-24834: exploiting an integer overflow in Lua cjson module in Redis servers

https://research.nccgroup.com/2024/06/11/pumping-iron-on-the-musl-heap-real-world-cve-2022-24834-exploitation-on-an-alpine-mallocng-heap/

#infosec

☢️ Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory - Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-tmpfiles-purge-drama

#systemd #Linux #Opensource

Anyone know if RIFF chunks with id "\0\0\0\0" (4 zero bytes) with zero size is valid and a thing? I've seen WAV files multiples times with these in between other chunks or last in a file. Can't find anything in specs about it, most players and decoders seem to ignore them.

#riff #wav