My latest: Discord said late on Friday that hackers stole users' government-issued IDs (passports and driver's licenses) from one of its customer support databases.

I wrote a few words about the risks of age verification laws, and why collecting people's government IDs is bad for security and privacy.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/discord-says-users-government-ids-used-for-age-checks-stolen-by-hackers/

Are you into Windows Internals and you have a passion for software engineering? We're looking to hire someone with strong C++ knowledge, as well as Reverse Engineering expertise to work on threat prevention solution that we're offering! https://ats.rippling.com/netwrix-corporation/jobs/fb1f4402-1fcb-4e6e-903d-f9c26568702a

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way.

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

I expected the future to be scary, but in newer, less stupid ways

Binary Ninja 5.2 feature stream starts now! Join us to get a sneak peak of what's coming in the new stable: https://www.youtube.com/@vector35/live

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

Dearest folks from @BSidesPDX are hosting @blackhoodie again this year! Come spend a day with me and CPU bugs :) 🐞

https://blackhoodie.re/BSidesPDX2025/

10 More Hacker Movies You Have Missed

Everyone loved the first one of these, so a follow up was inevitable. This time around it is a very 1990s heavy affair, with 1995 being the real opening of the floodgates for movies about hackers or techno-thrillers where hacking plays an important part in the movie plot.

http://realhackhistory.org/2025/10/03/10-more-hacker-movies-you-have-missed/

🔐 SSH on Windows is levelling up. At #PSConfEU 2025, Microsoft’s Tess Gauthier & @stevenbucher13.bsky.social showed how: 🖥️ #SSH is default on Windows Server 2025 🛡️ SSH Posture Control secures configs via #Azure 🌐 SSH Arc = remote access without public IPs #PowerShell #WindowsServer

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🌧️ + 🏓 =

Everyone thought the “hedged” mode of ML-DSA (Dilithium) fixed fault attacks. New research presented at CHES shows that’s not the case. A "fault then correct" trick still works.

We break it down in our latest Expert Review. ➡️ https://eshard.com/posts/expert-review-6-dilithium-dis-faulting

#pqc #postquantumcryptography #cryptography #nist

BANDCAMP FRIDAY ALERT https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Full price of music to musicians today on bandcamp, no platform cut

Heads up to anyone doing #Mobile #ReverseEngineering and #PenetrationTesting: I've just ported my @NowSecure #Frida instrumentation scripts (#iOS and #Android) to Frida 17, which introduced some breaking changes in the API.

The original, battle-tested scripts from 2017 are preserved as release 0.1 for retro compatibility and historical reference.

https://github.com/0xdea/frida-scripts

Happy hacking! 🏴‍☠️🪐

Fantastic opportunity to work with amazing people! @pietroborrello https://infosec.exchange/@pietroborrello/115305619387518476

This October, the @internetarchive celebrates an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved & available for access via the #WaybackMachine. We're celebrating in style.

Join us in person or online!
📆 Weds, Oct 22
📍 IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (San Francisco)
💻 VIRTUAL: 7–8 PM PT | 10–11 PM ET

🎟️ Register ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #event

Our CFP is open! If you’re working on something exciting, we want to hear from you! Submit your talk for RE//verse 2026: https://sessionize.com/reverse-2026