August 14, 2022

The new Perun video is out. Covering the Ukraine military this time.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

New: I tried out Apple's new "extreme" iOS 16 security feature called Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect at-risk users — journalists, activists, and human rights defenders — against zero-click government spyware.

techcrunch.comLockdown Mode in iOS 16 just might work – TechCrunchHere’s what the new spyware-busting feature does, and why it might just work.

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A really interesting thread of a normie installing Pi-hole on their network and what impact it had on their experience. Also the ethics of ad blocking and the constant pervasive surveillance on the internet. It’s really enlightening to see how non-technical people live and what they think about tech.

Simon McGarr @Tupp_Ed

My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network. We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems.

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Dexerto @Dexerto

A developer is making this game about a squirrel with a gun where you can also run around and rob people

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HD Moore @hdmoore

Amazing work by Orange Tsai (as usual), BH slides at: i.blackhat.com/USA-22/Wednesd…

Orange Tsai 🍊 @orange_8361

My favorite bug among the vulnerabilities I presented today! 😆 The original intent was to compare the password. However, the developer copy-and-pasted the code but forgot to replace the variable name. That leads to the Authentication Bypass on IIS. https://t.co/NLDDLQNYX2

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Nick Landers @monoxgas

Slides are up for our (w/ @tiraniddo) Kerberos LPE presentation from #blackhat2022. Hope you enjoy, and thank for to everyone who attended!

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Eugene Spafford being all prescient and saying how the security industry needs to improve. In 2013.

https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/on_competitions_and_competence/

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Ivan Fratric 💙💛 @ifsecure

The slides for my Black Hat talk "XMPP Stanza Smuggling or How I Hacked Zoom" are now available at

blackhat.comBlack HatBlack Hat

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poorly drawn lines @PDLComics

in thought

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Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnccgroup

When music has cyber physical impact on surrounding equipment due to frequency resonance causing harddrive crashes.

Windows Dev Docs @WindowsDocs

Here's our first video from our new series with Raymond Chen, @ChenCravat. We asked him to tell us about the mystery wherein some music would crash a laptop!!?? https://t.co/BRgfsWEaaC

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Matthew Green @matthew_d_green

The sudden deletion of important Git repos from GitHub is now a thing, and while that *shouldn’t* mean all copies of the software are gone (thanks to Git being decentralized), it does make it hard to verify purported clones w/o knowing the hashes.

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A story of what we’ve lost in computing

http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html

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Heap overflows on iOS ARM64

https://www.inversecos.com/2022/07/heap-overflows-on-ios-arm64-heap.html

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A meditative read on logistics.

https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/

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Charlie Stross @cstross

Me when I gain my supervillain superpowers

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Crypto Bros Taking Ls @CoinersTakingLs

Wow lol

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Firr @ defcon @Firr

One year I went to Defcon and left an old laptop out with "Do your worst" written on it. I cam back to it a few hours later and it hadn't even been touched. ...Till I booted it up the next day and glitter spewed out of the fans on the back.

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Keke Palmer’s Powerslide @solomonmissouri

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

What does winning the Grammy do to a musician’s style? After winning, their future albums become more stylistically unique. But Grammy-nominated artists that fail to win become conformists. Their future albums sound more like everything else out there than previous records. 1/2

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MrR3b00t | #StandWithUkraine #DefendAsOne @UK_Daniel_Card

CYBER NORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lee Newcombe @lee_newcombe

Stolen from Facebook (I guess the algorithms have me about right). https://t.co/hIwXsVw1mF

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pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” @pixelatedboat

If they made The Sopranos in today’s woke society it would be about Tony Soprano going to therapy