Struggling to reverse Rust binaries? Cindy Xiao @cdxiao breaks down the Rust type system and shares practical techniques to reconstruct Rust structures. Learn how to tackle Rust malware & analyze binaries like a pro. #REverse2025 #ReverseEngineering #Rust #Malware

PSA FOR AUTHORS: some dipshit put a pirate edition of my latest book on Apple Books with a "50% OFF" medallion on the cover illo. They used an obscure unicode glyph in the author name so that searches for "Charles Stross" find it but the bookstore won't merge it.

Where there's one there'll be others!

My publisher's piracy team is handling it.

If you have a book that came out this year, beware! It's a relative of the IDN homograph attack only targeting ebook stores:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

CALLING ALL #demoscene MUSICIANS!

Our jury for Best Soundtrack could urgently use one or two more jurors - are you able to help out?
We reactivated our application form just for you! Thank you humbly, everyone!

https://2025.meteoriks.org/taking_part/juror/

It looks like oil paintings on wikipedia are being infected by phone camera software that automatically "fixes" skin textures.

HPE has confirmed it's investigating a data breach after a well-known hacker claimed to have stolen sensitive information from the company https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/hpe-investigating-security-breach-after-hacker-claims-theft-of-sensitive-data/

JetBrains security advisory: TeamCity 2024.12.1 Bug Fix Is Now Available
It's time for security theater as JetBrains announces a TeamCity update but refuses to tell us what vulnerabilities actually got fixed. 🤡 There are no release notes for 2024.12.1 at the time of this toot.
There is no dropdown option for TeamCity 2024.12.1 in Fixed security issues page. A CVE of "TeamCity" doesn't show any new CVEs since December 2024. On average, they update their security bulletin with CVEs 4-30 days after announcing security updates.

#jetbrains #teamcity #cve #vulnerability #infosec #cybersecurity

Any #Wikipedia editors around who can help? We are trying to get the article on #CHERI added. It's so far been rejected three times:

First, it did not have enough independent citations. We added a lot to news articles about CHERI.

Second, it was insufficiently detailed and lacking context. We added a timeline of development, a load of cross references, and a simple introduction.

It was then rejected again because it lacks an explanation that a 15-year-old could understand. This is true of 90% of science-related articles on Wikipedia, so I'm not sure how we fix it. An explanation at that level is something I can write (I have done for the #CHERIoT book!) but it would then make the page 3-4 times as long and not suitable for an encyclopaedia (I've previously seen pages rejected because Wikipedia is not the right place for tutorials).

I don't understand the standards for Wikipedia and I really need some guidance for how to resolve and progress this.

In our new blog post we take a little journey from an IBM advisory to confirming a hardening in Windows 11 24H2:

Vulnerability Archeology: Stealing Passwords with IBM i Access Client Solutions

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2025/01/21/ibm-acs-password-dump/

#redteam #windows #ibmi #ReverseEngineering

Together, for a Europe united against hatred.

Today, a revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online is being integrated into the framework of the Digital Services Act.

The new Code will strengthen how online platforms deal with content that EU and national laws define as illegal hate speech.

It will also facilitate compliance with and the effective enforcement of the DSA regarding risks of disseminating illegal content on their services.

ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!cmmGdj

#DSA

Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-valuation/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USpol

Wishing all my American friends strength today & for the future. Please hang in there!

Published a new article: Malicious extensions circumvent Google’s remote code ban

https://palant.info/2025/01/20/malicious-extensions-circumvent-googles-remote-code-ban/

Looking at 60 malicious extensions belonging to three groups here, still running remote code despite Google banning it in Manifest V3. “Fun” fact: some of these extensions have been featured on my blog in 2023, others on McAfee’s in 2022.

Recurring pattern: downloading rules and adding them to declarativeNetRequest API. The abuse potential here is enormous, including injecting malicious scripts into websites.

Only one extension went for essentially a custom programming language, others settled with simpler approaches. Luckily for me because the latter allows better guesses about what this functionality is meant for. Spoiler: ads and affiliate fraud. Also: affiliate fraud and ads.

Curious about Rust, fuzzing, and type systems? Interested in GSoC? Then LibAFL may have a project for you.

We are currently looking to implement a generic/associated-type bounds over-specification linter as a GSoC project this year. We have opened an RFC for developing such a project, and are looking for feedback from academics or professionals specialising in Rust tooling and type systems, so do please chime in if you're interested!

Would you buy my memecoin?

WTF #Microsoft?!

Alt+F4 is not closing #MicrosoftEdge I am stuck on the welcome screen.

There is no ❌ to click either, and right click close on the taskbar is ignored too.

This is fine.