June 10, 2022

[Ed: the end of RSAC week. The internets are out of cybers. They just need a glass of milk and a nap, and they'll be ready to go…]

Farida Rustamova @faridaily_

so yesterday @ParisMatch reported that Vladimir Putin travels abroad with a special 💩 suitcase. according to the journalists, Putin's guards collect his stools in bags and deliver them to Moscow. but as far as I know this peculiar system is arranged somewhat differently /1

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gryphoneer @OneRadChee

el salvador's crypto bro president turns his country into one big police state after he nuked its economy

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/08/its-a-war-on-the-people-el-salvadora-mass-arrests-send-thousands-into-despair

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Kenn White @kennwhite

What a wild story. Soviet-era dissidents & exiled jewish expats were able to smuggle information in & out of country thanks to U.S. saxophonist Merryl Goldberg, who came up with an ingenious encryption scheme using *sheet music*.

Andy Greenberg @a_greenberg

This from @lilyhnewman is easily my favorite story to ever come out of #RSAC: https://t.co/WgWrRVD6wi

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PHP CEO @PHP_CEO

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE CALLED JASON HAS BEEN ENCODING AND DECODING DATA IN OUR APP. PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS

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Matthew Green @matthew_d_green

I wrote a thing defending cryptocurrency, but I may delete it later on.

blog.cryptographyengineering.comIn defense of crypto(currency)Last week a group of technologists, including Bruce Schneier, sent a letter to Congress outlining their concerns around cryptocurrency and urging Congress to regulate the space. Now let me be the f…

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Travis Goodspeed @travisgoodspeed

Nifty CTF challenge on Windows Defender. Writeup by @xarkes_, citing fine work by @taviso and @0xAlexei.

xarkes.comFCSC 2021 - The Offenders reverse engineering challenge writeupWriteup of

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Cliff 🦖 Jerrison @pervocracy

Fun fact: dinosaurs are divided into two main groups, "lizard-hipped" species like Apatosaurus and "bird-hipped" species like Stegosaurus NOT FUN AT ALL fact: actual birds are considered lizard-hipped

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Richard Johnson @richinseattle

This new Fuzz Introspector project looks great. Even if you don’t do a lot of fuzzing check out the oss-fuzz reports to see where they are blocked and look there for bugs!

Jonathan Metzman @metzmanj

Fuzz introspector is a really cool tool. Check it out, especially if you use OSS-Fuzz: https://t.co/JkHD046uLj https://t.co/A199xyEh2T

Jonathan Metzman @metzmanj

Fuzz introspector is a really cool tool. Check it out, especially if you use OSS-Fuzz: …z-introspector.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Navid Emamdoost @navidemd

We're excited to launch @theopenssf Fuzz Introspector, a tool targeted at helping developers identify coverage bottlenecks & writing more productive fuzzers. This is fully integrated in the OSS-Fuzz service as well, we encourage developers to try it out - https://t.co/swHAdAX5kZ

Navid Emamdoost @navidemd

We're excited to launch @theopenssf Fuzz Introspector, a tool targeted at helping developers identify coverage bottlenecks & writing more productive fuzzers. This is fully integrated in the OSS-Fuzz service as well, we encourage developers to try it out -

openssf.orgIntroducing Fuzz Introspector, an OpenSSF Tool to Improve Fuzzing Coverage - Open Source Security FoundationWe are excited to announce an initial release of Fuzz Introspector, a collaborative effort from OpenSSF members, that provides actionable insights for developers to identify fuzzing coverage blockers by analyzing functions, static call graphs, and runtime coverage information. Resolving these blocke…

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Luiseach Ní Nia @Luiseach

I just yelped loud enough to startle the bunny

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@mikko @mikko

Local police caught a scammer after they got a smartphone photo of his hand and used it to match his fingerprint. Warning: link in Finnish.

Itä-Uudenmaan poliisi @IUPoliisi

Toukokuussa #Vantaa'lla tapahtunut #petosrikos selvisi #poliisi'n käytössä olevan tekniikan avulla. https://t.co/Bsl9r8P5Dh

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Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones. Water wet. Sky blue. News at 11.

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/Bluetoothfingerprints