The Vulnerability Extravaganza

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News From Less Reputable Sources

The globalGlob(**/*) can't report on every story, just every good one. But we can tell you about stories other people reported, to save ourselves some time. Here are some of those!

• There are a lot of vulnerabilities being discovered, more and more every day.
  • This site keeps track of every publicly known Breach, Vulnerability, and SUpply Chain issue.
  • Only click on it if you have a strong drink nearby.
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• When you want everyone to know a video was created by A.I., you make sure it looks bad. Has inconsistencies. Has scenes less polished than all the others.
  • Which is exactly what the next version of the BBC's Blue Planet film will do.
  • To prove they're not using A.I., they're including scenes that don't look as good.
  • I'm sure they did a lot of work, but this just feels lazy.
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• The Game UI Database site has been getting hammered by bots scraping it for A.I. material.
  • The site is in a constant battle for uptime. Sometimes the site wins, sometimes the bots win. Well, the bots win a lot.
  • The site may need to turn to drastic measures to save itself, like requiring users to login. But I think all they need to do is nicely ask the scrapers to stop.
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Scoops on globalGlob.dev

A developer wants to warn everyone about the dangers of too many stickers. Every developer can end up in this position. Don't fall for the same trap.

Developer Laptop Crushed Under Weight of Stickers | globalGlob(**/*)

A developer posted a story online that's too improbable to believe, but we checked, it's real! They stated that their beloved laptop is no more. It has compiled its last backend, linted its final webapp, panicked its last kernel. The developer explained it happened soon after placing a new sticker on the laptop, a weekly tradition.

What do you call a red teamer that's blue in the face? This guy! That guy? The guy in the news. Read the article to find out what happened, and why he went all in on defending when he should have been attacking.

Color Blind Red Teamer Adds Better Defenses To Company Infrastructure | globalGlob(**/*)

Harrison Dodge, a cybersecurity engineer on the red team at IT I.T. Tech, has repeatedly performed the wrong job duties due to a disability. Instead of performing red team actions, hacking internal systems to test security quality, Dodge has been performing blue team actions, adding defenses. This is all due to him being color blind. Something you wouldn't think would affect his work, but somehow has.

Log Level Debug

Log Level Debug is our weekly news roundup show from news around the world. Think of it as news globalGlob(**/*) would have had the scoop on if we weren't busy with other, more important stories.

In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about PHP waaaaaay to long, but balance it out with other vulnerability discussion, and talk about layoffs. You know, just the good stuff.

The Developer Joke of the Week

What do you call a 3-day sprint? A Nap. Because nothing gets done in 3 days.