"Opportunity to Target Kaspersky Users as They Exit the US Market"

Vultures are gathering...

(first I thought this was about some AV 0-day...)

Creating an OCI image from source code that can run on any cloud could be very challenging. Quarkslab assessed the security of Cloud Native Builpacks, a tool for creating ready-to-use OCI images directly from source code. The report is available here: https://blog.quarkslab.com/audit-of-cloud-native-buildpacks.html

Apache Mina seems like a nice way to have a shell in everything Oracle

Interesting privacy evaluation of Topics API suggesting that privacy toll may be significant. This evaluation is based on a small dataset of browsing histories (n=1027). Do you think the results would hold for realistic datasets? I have some doubts (from experience of work on 200k bigger dataset). However, such evaluations of the privacy-utility tradeoff are unambiguously needed, and good. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19577v1

Electron Userland just released a patch for a code signature bypass in electron-updater for Windows I found a few weeks back (CVE-2024-39698): https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/security/advisories/GHSA-9jxc-qjr9-vjxq. I'll likely publish a write-up in the coming weeks, it's a fun one ;-)

[RSS] Remembering Seymour Cray

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/remembering-seymour-cray/

[RSS] Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

http://www.righto.com/2024/07/ibm-3274-keystone-chip.html?m=1

[RSS] Linux Kernel: Vulnerability in the eBPF verifier register limit tracking

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-hfqc-63c7-rj9f

[RSS] Kioxia: Open JTAG Debug Port

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-3hh8-94j4-62rh

[RSS] Pwn2Own: Pivoting from WAN to LAN to Attack a Synology BC500 IP Camera (Part 2)

https://claroty.com/team82/research/pivoting-from-wan-to-lan-synology-bc500-ip-camera

At some point in the past I had outlined how "BYOVD protection" is a lie. If you're bringing your own driver, you're an admin. And if you're an admin, you can do what you want.

After much unnecessary delay, here is the second part of my blog series, which dives into the blurry lines between "vulnerable" and "not vulnerable" when it comes to Windows drivers.

TL;DR: In some future version of Windows, we may see "vulnerable driver" being able to be defined in a way that it could be protected against. But in the current world that we live in, BYOVD protection simply makes no sense.
https://vu.ls/blog/byovd-protection-is-a-lie-pt2/

Some great research from Germany. The journalists were able to get a “preview” from a data broker with locations of 11 million German advertising IDs over the period of two months. For free, no questions asked, merely claiming to be interested in buying a subscription.

The dataset appears to be compiled from multiple sources and has some quality issues: some locations are only approximate, occasional wrong timestamps, duplicate entries with different advertising IDs. Yet in many cases it is easily possible to find the person behind the movement profile and to learn details about their lives that definitely weren’t meant to be public knowledge.

That’s your installed apps (or rather advertising SDKs they are built with) selling whatever data they can get to anyone willing to pay. I wish I could recommend disabling GPS and the issue is solved. But even though GPS is the source of the most precise location data, it isn’t the only one. The data broker industry is out of control.

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/databroker-files-firma-verschleudert-36-milliarden-standorte-von-menschen-in-deutschland/

#privacy

🔴 Check out our presentation at @passthesaltcon:

Path Of rev.ng-ance: From Raw Bytes To CodeQL On Decompiled Code (30 minutes)

https://passthesalt.ubicast.tv/videos/2024-path-of-revng-ance-from-raw-bytes-to-codeql-on-decompiled-code/

[RSS] Reverse-Engineering a Shahed-136 Drone Air Data Computer

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/15/reverse-engineering-a-shahed-136-drone-air-data-computer/

Uncoordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: After more than a decade of CVD, has it benefited vendors or researchers more? Have the number of bugs increased to where vendors simply cannot cope with CVD? @TheDustinChilds has some thoughts - & lots of questions. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2024/7/15/uncoordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-the-continuing-issues-with-cvd

[RSS] SSD Advisory – XenForo RCE via CSRF

https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-xenforo-rce-via-csrf/

Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984

Link: https://www.namokimods.com/en-ca/blogs/namokitimes/seiko-originals-the-uc-2000-a-smartwatch-from-1984
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969808

Yesterday I wrote a script for #Diaphora for cases in which you want to disable a set of heuristics for the current two binaries being diffed for whatever reason. Here is the example script:

https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/blob/master/doc/examples/hooks/exclude_heuristics.py

The best documentation I could find about symbol map files acceptable by #gdb is RFC "IT DEPENDS".

#CunninghamsLaw

i'm excited to share Collateral Damage, a kernel exploit for SystemOS on Xbox One/Series consoles! this initial release is mostly intended for developers, but i hope people will enjoy playing around with it! writeup and more updates in the near future :) https://github.com/exploits-forsale/collateral-damage