I got to debug an existing #Ghidra extension from VSCode by:
- Copying .vscode/ template directory to the original (Eclipse-based) repo
- Fill in the path of my Ghidra installation in build.gradle (this can be pbbly done more elegantly by setting the env)
- Renaming the .classpath file produced by Eclipse, as it confuses VSCode
- Manually loading the plugin from Code Browser's File/Configure menu

The debugging experince is unfortunately shit so far, I can't even see which breakpoint is hit - I'll keep on reading VSCode tutorials...

The first lesson of using #Ghidra's generated VSCode project is that I'm a VSCode n00b :P Lessons so far:

1) You'll need the Extension Pack for Java (from MS, not Oracle's crap!)
2) Ghidra launch configurations are available under the "bug with play button" sidebar icon
+1) Directory/workspace names are not necessarily valid Java package names, but Ghidra generates the code and the fs structure anyway

Now I'm trying to figure out why the sample code is not actually loaded to Ghidra when debugging...

Tech-Fedi

Burp Suite should really just fuck off with it's latest "Would you recommend this product" bullshit!

This supposed to be a professional tool (that users pay for btw) not a fucking marketing platform.

/cc @albinowax

Today was my last day at ONCD. I turned in my White House pass, laptop and phone.

I was explaining why I was resigning, while they were explaining the Special Governmental Employee (SGE) program was being eliminated. We both got to the same result. No hard feelings, I wish the best for ONCD and Cyber, there are a lot of important and pressing challenges ahead.

On the way out I watched movers empty out the Pandemic Readiness office. 😦 I went for drinks with friends.

You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview

If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they will arrest the person you sent the messages *to*, and make your counterparty show them the logs. We know this because this technique came up again and again in, for example, the Jan. 6 court filings.

There may, hypothetically, be other Signal exploits available to a government, but this is the one they will use, because it works.

Via my son:

#pinky #brain

I just published a blog post about getaddrinfo and all the other weird DNS APIs that we use in Firefox to resolve HTTPS records.

https://valentin.gosu.se/blog/2025/02/getaddrinfo-sucks-everything-else-is-much-worse

All this was part of the talk I gave at FOSDEM last weekend.

ROPing our way to “Yay, RCE” - and a lesson in the importance of a good nights sleep!

From vulnerability to exploit - follow our Colleague Michaels journey of developing an ARM ROP chain to exploit a buffer overflow in uc-http

Via Return-Oriented Programming chain small code snippets, or gadgets, already present in a program’s memory can be leveraged

By chaining these gadgets together, they can execute arbitrary code without injecting anything new

Dive into the process of reverse engineering, gadget hunting, and crafting a working exploit.

Learn all about it in Michaels full report.

https://modzero.com/en/blog/roping-our-way-to-rce/

Why pay for search?

(Illustration by @chazhutton for Kagi)

#Kagi #AdFree #Search #Privacy

[RSS] Micropatches Released for Windows OLE Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-21298)

https://blog.0patch.com/2025/02/micropatches-released-for-windows-ole.html

Daniel weekly February 7, 2025

https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2025-February/000099.html

old security, ssh security, BBC, URLs from file, you can help, curl up CVE-2024-7264, EOSAwards, Workshop, FOSDEM, 1337, release, regressions, release candidates, codeql, no goods

If you use Signal, Discord, or any other messaging app and you DON'T want Google or Apple monitoring/reading/learning from your messages, follow these steps.

Android:
1. Open Google app
2. Tap your profile photo
3. Settings
4. Google Assistant
5. "Your Apps"
6. Choose the app (e.g., Signal)
7. Toggle "Let your assistant learn from this app" off

iPhone:
1. Settings
2. Apps
3. Choose the app (e.g., Signal)
4. Toggle Apple intelligence or Siri settings to off (“learn from this app”)

Windows Telephony Services: 2025 Patch Diffing & Analysis https://blog.securelayer7.net/windows-telephony-services-2025-patch-diffing-and-analysis-pt-1/

Creating a toy operating system

https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial

https://539kernel.com/

https://github.com/tuhdo/os01/blob/master/Operating_Systems_From_0_to_1.pdf

UK orders Apple to put backdoor in iCloud encryption (Advanced Data Protection, which is end-to-end encrypted):
https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter

The way this plays out is that UK iPhones lose the Advanced Data Protection feature, right?
Right??

Big news in Italy around the government misusing Paragon, and Paragon ended up cutting the contract citing misuse/ethical violations.
I commend Paragon on this one, the misuse was pretty blatant and as Italian sad to see. This is how the industry should react to misuse!

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