Picard management tip: Empower others to command when you are unfit. You never know when your mind will be taken over by an alien.

It’s been a while since we had a good 512-bit RSA key controlling anything important, and I’m here for it. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/home-energy-system-gives-researcher-control-of-virtual-power-plant

All vendors will keep producing garbage as long they have no long term liability and maintenance obligations to all the garbage they produce. And somehow we want secure products... Rust everything, yeah LOL

Incentives, how do they work?

I bet this guy has quite the LinkedIn profile: Feds arrest a 38 y/o Nashville man who allegedly provided a US network presence for a bunch of fake North Korean IT workers trying to raise money for the DPRK's nuclear weapons program:

"According to court documents, Knoot ran a “laptop farm” at his Nashville residences between approximately July 2022 and August 2023. The victim companies shipped laptops addressed to “Andrew M.” to Knoot’s residences. Following receipt of the laptops, and without authorization, Knoot logged on to the laptops, downloaded and installed unauthorized remote desktop applications, and accessed the victim companies’ networks, causing damage to the computers. The remote desktop applications enabled the North Korean IT workers to work from locations in China, while appearing to the victim companies that “Andrew M.” was working from Knoot’s residences in Nashville. For his participation in the scheme, Knoot was paid a monthly fee for his services by a foreign-based facilitator who went by the name Yang Di. A court-authorized search of Knoot’s laptop farm was executed in early August 2023."

"The overseas IT workers associated with Knoot’s cell were each paid over $250,000 for their work between approximately July 2022 and August 2023, much of which was falsely reported to the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration in the name of the actual U.S. person, Andrew M., whose identity was stolen. Knoot and his conspirators’ actions also caused the victim companies more than $500,000 in costs associated with auditing and remediating their devices, systems, and networks. Knoot, Di, and others conspired to commit money laundering by conducting financial transactions to receive payments from the victim companies, transfer those funds to Knoot and to accounts outside of the United States, in an attempt both to promote their unlawful activity and to hide that transferred funds were the proceeds of it. The non-U.S. accounts include accounts associated with North Korean and Chinese actors."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-north-korean-remote-it-worker-fraud-schemes-through-charges-and

"an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar." #adtech

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1821554841786683554.html

Happy birthday @openstreetmap !

You are simply the best, not only for providing a reliable map at home, or for guiding me when #bikepacking 10,000 km from #Belgium to #China, but also for all the fun #mapping, completing and correcting details on the map!

#osm #openstreetmap #opendatabase #commons #digitalpublicgoods #PublicInfrastructure #digitalsovereignty

Is #Microsoft #Defender for #Identity part of the #MSRC #Bounty program?

Asking for a fried.

A deep dive into CVE-2023-2163: How we found and fixed an eBPF Linux Kernel Vulnerability

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6303226026131456/a-deep-dive-into-cve-2023-2163-how-we-found-and-fixed-an-ebpf-linux-kernel-vulnerability

Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server!

https://blog.orange.tw/2024/08/confusion-attacks-en.html?m=1&s=09

Latest by Orange Tsai!

W00t! @hdm / @runZeroInc made sshamble public (took forever for BH/DC to get here).

https://github.com/runZeroInc/sshamble

SSHamble is research tool for SSH implementations that includes:

— Interesting attacks against authentication
— Post-session authentication attacks
— Pre-authentication state transitions
— Authentication timing analysis
— Post-session enumeration

Gorgeous website for it too: https://www.runzero.com/sshamble/

FTX settles complaint from the CFTC with $12.7 billion payout

August 8, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ftx-cftc-settlement

"Question regarding you hacking my webserver?"

It is #inbox time again.

https://bagder.github.io/emails/2024/2024-08-07.html

A new post by #CrowdStrike refutes some claims I amplified earlier:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-addressing-claims-about-falcon-sensor-vulnerability/

Some notes:
- seems CS can't update through middleboxes. This is an unusual design but makes sense IMO (screw middleboxes!)
- "Before loading the channel file from disk, the Falcon sensor verifies that the file contents match the expected hash to detect any local modifications of the file." Sounds like a TOCTOU, but that's just a wild guess

Thrilled to announce that, after roughly 4 years of dedicated collaboration between Mozilla and Google's WebDriver automation teams, Firefox is now officially supported in Puppeteer, thanks to the new WebDriver BiDi protocol!

This significant milestone allows seamless testing of websites in Firefox, using tools that were previously exclusive to Chrome.

Please share your thoughts and feedback, let us know what works and what features you'd like to see!

https://fosstodon.org/@planetmozilla/112921805158708461

Protip: You can also make a phone call by holding it up to your ear and speaking into it directly at a low volume.

Thanks to @jmc for setting it up, there's a new mailing list for those interested in all aspects of illumos on SPARC

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/sparc

Nothing there yet, but I thought I would give those interested a chance to join before starting up some conversations

💫DID YOU KNOW💫
that if you move a mouse cursor fast enough, you can get persistence of vision and, say...
*run a game of Pong inside your mouse's firmware*
🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️

ClownStrike.lol now says #Fortinet has falsely blocked the domain as "phishing" and is giving them the runaround about appealing it. This domain is demonstrating all of the cybersecurity industry's problems. https://clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/

CPU bugs reached a level of yikes that speculation side channels can only dream of

https://ghostwriteattack.com/riscvuzz.pdf

Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy https://icode4.coffee/?p=954