Call for Failures @ hack.lu 2025 — Because We All Break Things
At hack.lu, we love stories of brilliance — new tools, cutting-edge exploits, and clever defenses.
But let’s be honest: the best lessons often come from things that went spectacularly wrong.
That’s why we’re bringing back the Call for Failures (CFF) — a mini-conference inside hack.lu dedicated entirely to sharing the things that didn’t go as planned.
🗓️ When: Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕖 Time: 19:00 – 21:00
📍 Where: At hack.lu, Luxembourg
#conference #unconference #hacklu #cybersecurity
🔗 https://2025.hack.lu/blog/hack.lu-call-for-failures-at-hack-lu/
The official @Defcon recording of HTTP/1.1 Must Die has landed - join me on the mission to help kill HTTP/1.1! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCyExOr3sE
Serious bugs often occur in third-party components integrated by other software. Ivan Fratric and I found this vulnerability in the Dolby Unified Decoder. It affects Android, iOS and Windows among other platforms, sometimes 0-click.
Integrators should update today!
Hi there! This is #nakeddiefriday again!
Today I'd like to present you one of frequent sources of pain for C64 owners, the infamous PLA. This is MOS 7700R2. They failed way too often, and considering this is custom silicon, the only option was to get another one of the same.
Many thanks to @root42 for providing this sample!
SiPron link: https://siliconprawn.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:mos:7700r2
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
My OBTS v8 slides for Apple Compressor (part of Final Cut Pro) unauthenticated LAN RCE. No CVE? Because it’s not patched…🫣
So this October 2025 F5 security notification is pretty wild because of the sheer volume of vulnerabilities disclosed: more than 30 high-severity CVEs (!) and around a dozen medium-severity ones in a single release cycle. This affects almost every F5 product family, BIG-IP (all modules), BIG-IP Next, F5OS, and related components. Something we don’t see very often... and a lot of these vulnerabilities score above 8.0; remote exploitation, denial-of-service or privilege escalation. Also, the number of affected software branches (from 15.x through 17.x) means most F5 deployments are touched in some way. YMMV.
In short, this quarter’s bulletin is probably F5’s heaviest security updates ever. If you run F5 products, patch now. https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000156572