This hard target full chain analysis from discovery to exploit has been added to Full Stack Web Attack. The last training for this year is at Romhack between 24th-27th of September at https://romhack.io/training/2024/full-stack-web-attack/ Student discount codes available, PM me but I only have a few left.

Holy shit, the Hungarian Plus/4 gang strikes again at Árok Party 2024. TCFS ported Prince of Persia to the Plus/4! Runs on stock hardware (two disk sides). 😲

https://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Prince_of_Persia

#8bit #commodore #plus4

Syniverse have been offline for 3 days. https://www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2024/06/overseas-travelers-encounter-massive-att-t-mobile-and-verizon-roaming-outage/

To expand on this - Syniverse are a small company who sit at the heart of mobile networks worldwide. They do international roaming and SMS exchange - including subscriber locations etc, and exchange the info between telcos.

Several years ago Syniverse had a big breach by a nation state, into their core platform.

[RSS] Nuvoton / Dell iDRAC: RootBlock

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-v9gx-jrwm-3f78

"An attacker with physical access or root-level access on a system that uses the Nuvoton BootBlock first-stage bootloader can modify the u-boot image parsed by BootBlock such that it overwrites BootBlock in SRAM"

[RSS] Auth. Bypass In (Un)Limited Scenarios - Progress MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806)

https://labs.watchtowr.com/auth-bypass-in-un-limited-scenarios-progress-moveit-transfer-cve-2024-5806/

[RSS] Attack of the clones: Getting RCE in Chrome’s renderer with duplicate object properties

https://github.blog/2024-06-26-attack-of-the-clones-getting-rce-in-chromes-renderer-with-duplicate-object-properties/

[RSS] Exploiting Steam: Usual and Unusual Ways in the CEF Framework

https://www.darknavy.org/blog/exploiting_steam_usual_and_unusual_ways_in_the_cef_framework/

[RSS] An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World

https://retooling.io/blog/an-unexpected-journey-into-microsoft-defenders-signature-world

Imagine software but move slow and fix things.
With decade long stability.

"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent." — Raoul Bott

We're stoked we got to present about low-level #IBMi internals today at @recon! Here you can find our detailed writeup:

https://silentsignal.github.io/BelowMI/

We also released our @kaitai definition for the *PGM serialization format:

https://github.com/silentsignal/PGM-Kaitai

...and our #Ghidra extensions:

https://github.com/silentsignal/PowerAS

Stay tuned for slides and demos!

#REcon24 #REconmtl #REcon2024

Mission accomplished!
My keynote was ‘polarizing’:
Some were disappointed that it’s not a ‘standard’ keynote, while it resonated with others.
Well worth the risk: I didn’t want yet another self-gratifying write up or a threatintel PR deck.
https://speakerdeck.com/ange/a-question-of-time

UB or not UB: How gcc and clang handle statically known undefined behaviour. https://diekmann.uk/blog/2024-06-25-statically-known-undefined-behaviour.html

Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws https://memorycorruption.net/posts/rce-lua-factorio/

The #Windows #Registry Adventure #3: Learning resources

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-windows-registry-adventure-3.html

PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away

Updated link: https://blog.can.ac/2024/06/28/pgc-garbage-collecting-patchguard/

Blue Monday on Vintage Casio Instruments. You're welcome.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h9mm0YlMa9I

Today is my last day at IBM.

I joined Netrex in February 1999 as a Unix admin

In late 1999 Internet Security Security Systems bought Netrex, largely for its managed services business.

In October 2006, when I was the director of IT, IBM bought ISS largely for its managed services business.

I was given lots of opportunities at IBM. Twice I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was on a list to be let go, but other parts of IBM decided to pick me up. I once resigned to take a job at Deloitte, and at the time my manager told me that didn’t work for anyone and made it worth my while to stay. For many years, I led an incident response function for the strategic outsourcing business, which was later spun off to be what is now Kyndryl. I learned a LOT. I learned so much, in fact, that I decided to start a podcast in 2012, partly to make myself smarter, and partly in hopes that I could help the industry avoid the mistakes I was seeing our clients make on a near daily basis. I have deep scars from all the big security events of the 2010’s - heartbleed, shellshock, wannacry, notpetya, and many others.

In 2019, I was leading an internal practice around cyber regulations (in addition to the IR role) and ended up helping the cloud business out of a sticky situation. Unbeknownst to me, cloud had been looking to replace their CISO, and in March 2020, they offered me the job. My first big test was leading Cloud through Covid.

I had the extreme privilege to lead a team of 184 remarkably talented professionals. We did some cool things, but I regret the long list of things that didn’t get done.

As well published in the news, IBM took a hard line on return to office, particularly for executives. They gave people like me a choice: relocate to a key site (Atlanta was not one of them) and work from the office 3 days a week (with tight attendance tracking), or be let go. I have been working from home full time since shortly after IBM bought ISS in 2006 - nearly 18 years. I spend about 1/3 of my time at my beach place, which I was not willing to part with. Plus, I fundamentally disagree with the return to office approach and with how people have been treated, so I opted to “let it happen”, and so today is the day IBM terminates me.

I’ve saved up enough money that I can take a break for a while. It’s been 32 years since I’ve had more than a week off work, and at least 20 since I’ve had any sort of vacation that wasn’t disrupted by urgent meetings, crises, and so on. I’m going to spend some time with my family, especially my extremely patient wife, in ways that I haven’t been able to.

I have a very long list of things I’ll be doing during this downtime. I intend to get back into podcasting; I am going to write some including maybe a book; I am going to focus more on the fediverse instances I manage to ensure they are enduring; I am going to way too many baseball games with my wife (she is a mega baseball fan); and I am going to take way too many pictures and hopefully find some creative ways to make money with those pics.

TL;DR: today is the end of a long journey for me, and the start of a new one. And it’s a good day.

if you want to go to the bottom of #Assange 's case: Kevin Gosztola is the source to go to:

https://thedissenter.org/inside-the-assange-plea-deal-why-the-us-government-abruptly-ended-the-case/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Endpoint Security or End of Security?

https://github.com/TrapaSecurity/Presentations/blob/master/Endpoint_Security_or_End_of_Security.pdf