Good morning Europe I have written about the bewildering array of mechanisms available to prevent authentication token theft and also explained why we still basically have none of them available and so the authentication tokens are still being stolen and used. It is here: https://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/preventing-token-theft/

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#Hungarian spy ring targeted #EU officials, Commission investigation finds

🖊️ Max Griera and Mari Eccles

Activities of intelligence officers in Brussels "were initially discreet but gradually became much more overt from 2015 onwards," says Commission probe.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-spy-ring-target-eu-officials-commission-investigation

New vulnerability report from Talos:

GeoVision GeoWebPlayer Websocket Server lack of authentication vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2370

CVE-2026-13125

[RSS] MAD Bugs: My Cousin Vinyl (CVE-2026-50052)

https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-my-cousin-vinyl-cve-2026

[RSS] Caught in the Octopus Trap: Unauthenticated RCE in Argo CD with CodeQL

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/caught-in-the-octopus-trap-unauthenticated-rce-in-argo-cd-with-codeql.html

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@whvholst/116844640728147355

sweet holy mother of surprise! surely not the same Aura Salla who was chief-lobbyist for facebook before being elected to the European Parliament?

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

For the N'th time in my ~40 years online I'm watching (mostly: European) digital rights civil society placing moral purity of individuals acting within the law, above the collective impact of capability & outcome. It's like the Monty Python "Suicide Squad" skit. #mullvad

"Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models [...and...] alert the government of any malicious activity"

So basically Anthropic will snitch on you?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr42623e1do

cargo-audit flags Rust dependencies with known vulnerabilities. A flagged crate, though, doesn't tell you whether your code calls the vulnerable function.

We added a feature that matches a binary's symbols against the functions named in each advisory. Any matches are labeled "Affected," separating real exposure from advisories that don't apply.

It's live in cargo-audit 0.22.2+. If you're behind, update with `cargo install -f cargo-audit`.

#rust #infosec #supplychain

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-audit

I am so tired of people throwing up vibes as actual supportable positions. Show me the data. Show me the science. Otherwise, with respect, you might think a bit more before pressing that "Post" button.

#Microsoft fake #Windows error ended in a $280 million settlement.

The story mostly forgotten today, and one of the reasons why MS was/is so disliked. This is just one of their dirty tricks they played to gain mass adoption and eventually a monopoly on the PC.

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/

#technology #history

US removes curbs on Anthropic's latest Fable and Mythos AI models
1 July 2026

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-lift-export-controls-anthropics-fable-ai-model-tuesday-source-says-2026-06-30/

Antrhropic statement in reply

Someone is getting fed up with stochastic parrot bs passed off as knowledge and insight from fellow humans.

source: a certain amateur radio reflector.

edit: since this post is (unexpectedly?) doing the rounds, I'm not the author of the reply.

[RSS] Reverse-engineering VMware's encrypted + compressed VM memory checkpoint format (vTPM "partial" encryption)

https://github.com/heeeyaaaa/vmem-decrypt

[RSS] Auditing OpenReception: 16 CVEs in an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform (unauthenticated admin creation, account takeover, E2E bypass)

https://moltenbit.net/posts/auditing-openreception/

[RSS] Charting your way in: Helm template injection

https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/charting-your-way-in-helm-template-injection.html

another year at the #Troopers26 CTF brings some neat new tricks to bytewitch, my universal weird-blob decoding tool (now home at https://bytewitch.boo 👻):

quickly apply byte-level preprocessing (xor, and, arithmetic) and specify payloads by mixing and matching arbitrary number notations (binary, ternary, hex, whatever)

also, the randomness analysis now flags patterns indicating repeated-key xor and similar obfuscations (in tryhard mode only, for now)

now back to my actual work...