High level diff of iOS 26.2 vs. iOS 26.3 beta1 🎉

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs/blob/main/26_2_23C55__vs_26_3_23D5089e/README.md

CVE-2025-64669: Uncovering Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Windows Admin Center https://cymulate.com/blog/cve-2025-64669-windows-admin-center/

Bellingcat’s Kolina Koltai uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
Find out how we uncovered the administrator behind the deepfakes by reading the full investigation here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12/15/mark-resan-reface-deepfake-porn/?utm_source=mastodon

just released liboprf-0.9.3

liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol for the tOPRF shared secret. it comes with a high level python frontend that supports servers on TLS, USB and Bluetooth LE

see: https://github.com/stef/liboprf

We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continouos updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I want more projects that are actually just finished, without the need to be continuously mutated and complexified ad infinitum.

slip slop slap

https://hackerone.com/reports/3465094

Microsoft will pay bug bounties even for 3rd party components:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/microsoft_more_bug_payouts

Does anyone have a copy of the following paper:

https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-4048(82)90003-7

Robert H. Courtney, Jr., "A systematic approach to data security", in Computers & Security Volume 1, Issue 2, June 1982 (pgs. 99-112)

I have tried Sci-Hub and Anna's but no luck

(it is paywalled at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0167404882900037 for $30 which seems criminal)

The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174800.174801

make a programming language and then make a game in it.

https://itch.io/jam/langjamgamejam

https://langjamgamejam.com/
#langjam #gamejam #langjamgamejam

[RSS] Is web3 security going great?

https://bfswa.substack.com/p/it-web3-security-going-great

This is beautiful. I've been looking at this for 5 hours now.

LEGO turned down the Turing Machine model idea :(

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7

absolutely losing it. My mom received a spam call that got picked up by Google call screening on her phone, and it ended up responding with one of the more unhinged Asterisk voice recordings before hanging up LMAO

Analyzing CVE-2025-2296 [Un-verified #kernel bypass #SecureBoot mechanism in direct boot mode]

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2025/12/analyzing-cve-2025-2296/

Gerd Hoffmann aka kraxel writes: ""[…] So, if secure boot is enabled attempts to boot via 'EFI stub' will fail, the firmware rejects the binary due to the signature check failing. OVMF will fallback to the legacy 'EFI handover protocol' loader. The legacy loader does not do secure boot verification, which is the core of CVE-2025-2296. And this was essentially unfixable (in the firmware alone) because there simply is no valid secure boot signature due to the patching qemu is doing. Nevertheless there are some use cases which expect direct kernel boot with secure boot enabled to work. Catch 22. […]

Secure boot bypass sounds scary, but is it really? […] So, the actual impact is quite limited. […]""

#Linux #UEFI #QEMU

I'm a huge fan of writing and trying to type on a fucking TV remote got me thinking how much touch-screen keyboards may constrain our thinking...

#ShowerThought

Turns out your outsourced dev team vibe-coded the encryption routine of your #ransomware.

https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/cybervolk-returns-flawed-volklocker-brings-new-features-with-growing-pains/

#VolkLocker

Weird #DIY question:

I'd like to have easy to switch paper disks on an axis. An "obvious" solution would be to cut pices of a spiral where the beginning and the end just overlap, so they only get off when turned to the direction of the axis.

But how do I cut/produce such pieces so that they remain flat when on the axis?!

#topology

Decomp2dbg:

"decomp2dbg aims to shorten the gap of context switching between decompiler and debugger by introducing a generic API for decompiler-to-debugger symbol syncing."

https://github.com/mahaloz/decomp2dbg

#reverseengineering #debugger #decompiler

High level diff of iOS 18.7.2 vs. iOS 18.7.3 🎉

https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw-diffs/blob/main/18_7_2_22H124__vs_18_7_3_22H217/README.md