Time for a new thread.

I've made a short blog post outlining the basic techniques of executable emoji, which I have dubbed emojissembly.

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html

I started working on a general COM2EMOJI utility that I might post at some point, but let's face it the chances of me being distracted by some shiny thing in the next 48 hours is quite high.

Metabase : we fixed a critical vulnerability. We even made a github advisory, showing how it's a CVSS 10.

The CVE? None. Not worth it.

Fixed versions of the software released on GitHub? Also no. Not worth it.

A job done, folks.

As a parent who has been living in blessed ignorace of Paw Patrol, today I took the kid to her first cinema experience to see Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie.

And I'm making this everyone's problem because I have So. Many. Questions.

Luckily I was taking notes.

Thread 🧵

#parenting #PawPatrol #cinemastodon

Rule #1 of Cybersecurity:
Make sure the safety is off

Interesting Git repos of the week:

Detection:

* https://github.com/Yamato-Security/WELA - improve your Windows logging

Bugs:

* https://github.com/imbas007/POC-CVE-2026-60206 - popping WebLogic via SAML

Exploitation:

* https://github.com/Mrnmap/RedTeam - a nice list of tools
* https://github.com/H4CK3RT3CH/RedTeam-Tools - another nice list of tools
* https://github.com/redteaminfra/redteam-infra - Puppet powered red team infrastructure
* https://github.com/apocalypse9949/Redteam-Automation - AI driven red team framework 🤖
* https://github.com/CR-DMcDonald/letitrust - seizing hanging Azure tenant domains with Gandi
* https://github.com/SyscallX-18113/Apkx-Hunter - automated analysis of Android APKs

Cryptography:

* https://github.com/bandrel/HashcatRosetta - Hashcat rule analyzer and interpreter 🤖

#security, #research, #code

Auch das noch.

A handy .NET reverse engineering trick:

Add a sample.exe.config file next to your sample and you can trace e.g. all network requests, including content and headers without hooking or bothering with proxies. Helpful to e.g. quickly inspect c2 traffic:

https://gist.github.com/eversinc33/cd7f3e90643f69748862b87f394f1c16

nanosemitones per gigahectare

"The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately," said Owl.

Be kind to your friends. Give them compliments regularly. Make them feel valued and loved.

We all need this, especially right now 💚

PoC for Windows PnP LPE https://plugandpwn.com/

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/1727226/microsoft-google-amazon-meta-and-oracle-expect-a-negative-cash-flow-of-125-billion-next-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I've built a thing:
https://zed.dev/extensions/word-highlight-lsp

It's a @zed #lsp #extension to highlight all occurrences of selected words with multiple colors to quickly identify them in code.

I find it useful for #codereviews. Enojoy!

why the fuck is this called "Word Count Summary Property" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/word-count-summary

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

#BOFH excuse #295:

The Token fell out of the ring. Call us when you find it.

🏠 idalib is now available in IDA Home.

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Even if you're doing a great job closely supervising your LLM coding ... for the love of all that is holy, stop pushing a new GitHub release every ten minutes.

Being able to tell GitHub to only notify the user when new releases are cut is a critical attention-management feature that you are breaking.

(Please do not reply with "shouldn't be using LLMs in the first place", "close supervision is impossible" etc noise)