This was a fun podcast with @aionescu discussing all things kernel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adversary-universe-podcast/id1694819239?i=1000671431945

I love this part also. The #CSAM regulation proposal is full of how it is all great for privacy, and then it hits you with this. Apparently this is scanning of all OUR photos, not of theirs: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-01-conseil-hu-csam-proposition-approche-generale-24-septembre.pdf

The second article in our new series on #Windows #kernel #driver #vulnerability research and #exploitation is out!

Exploiting #AMD atdcm64a.sys arbitrary pointer dereference - Part 2:
https://security.humanativaspa.it/exploiting-amd-atdcm64a-sys-arbitrary-pointer-dereference-part-2/

This time, @ale98 covers how to craft PoCs for the arbitrary MSR read and arbitrary pointer dereference vulnerabilities described in his previous article, with step-by-step advice for debugging with #IDAPro.

Enjoy... and stay tuned for the third and last article next week.

My TamaGo talk at the recent @osfc_io is now online, if you are interested check it out!

https://www.osfc.io/2024/talks/tamago-bare-metal-go-for-arm-risc-v-socs/

dedicated to the brave reverse engineers

If you're using @zimbra, mass-exploitation of CVE-2024-45519 has begun. Patch yesterday.

Malicious emails are coming from 79.124.49[.]86 and attempting to curl a file from that IP.

A friend of mine (@GabrielGonzalez) has written a book about "Attacking and Securing U-Boot".
https://www.amazon.com/Attacking-Securing-U-Boot-Gabriel-Gonzalez/dp/B0DJ7M2JNN

An awesome video of live coding 6502 asm directly in Basic to produce music, with all the explanations on the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly5BhGOt2vE

Dutch intelligence agency #AIVD warns that 'introducing a scanning application on every mobile phone with an associated infrastructure of management systems creates an extremely large and complex system. This complex system thereby accesses a large amount of mobile devices and the personal data on them. This ultimately results in a situation whose risks to digital resilience the AIVD considers too great.' 💯 #CSAM #chatcontrol https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/113231287067384382

John Carmack on the value of simplicity over safetyness in C

Vesta Admin Takeover: Exploiting Reduced Seed Entropy in bash $RANDOM https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/vesta-admin-takeover-exploiting-reduced-seed-entropy-in-bash-random/

Pro-tip if you are searching for anything HTML, CSS or JavaScript related: add "mdn" to your query. This Mozilla project really is a work of love, maintained by hundreds of volunteers @openwebdocs and @MDN staff and contractors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn

I am wondering how many people and organisations genuinely have “opponent that can break into a cloud provider, steal hard disks, then extract coherent data from them outside of the cloud storage systems” in their threat model. Because I’m guessing in most cases such an adversary has easier and more effective ways to get at any at-rest data. Encrypting the drives a, for instance, RDS database is running on is not bad, but in most cases prioritising this over other security work seems like it’s driven by audit checkboxes rather than a full analysis. Do it, but fix the big ticket stuff first.

This may be an excessively cynical view.