*long drag on cigarette* Kid, this is Mastodon. We're all the algorithm here. You. Me. Everybody. Now get out there and boost somebody's bullshit.
Team member @sigabrt was able to bypass Apache FOP Postscript escaping to reach GhostScript engine.
https://offsec.almond.consulting/bypassing-apache-fop-escaping-to-reach-ghostscript.html
In case anyone was still under the assumption that US Big Tech and the Trump regime aren't one and the same:
The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against EU attempts to regulate US tech companies 🚨
We need ethical open alternatives.
A tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.
My final blog related to admin protection is up. https://projectzero.google/2026/02/gphfh-deep-dive.html I go into a bit of history of the interesting GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API, how it ended up allow you to bypass protected process restrictions and how it's now "fixed".
PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:
Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.
In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.
Today, let’s remember Charles Thacker, who was born on this day in 1943. Thacker received the #ACMTuringAward in 2009 for the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC -- and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.
Read more about him, here: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/thacker_1336106.cfm #OTD
Log4j, *the* project that escalated the need for funding open source in the first place, is currently being DOS’d by slop vulnerability reports. Well done everyone. Slow fucking clap.
#curl is secured for the billions - the steps we take. There is no silver bullet. No magic solution. Just plain engineering and doing everything as good as we can and to keep tightening every bolt there is.
(slide for upcoming presentation)