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April 19, 2025

April 19, 2025

April 19, 2025

I love this website 😂

Thanks dodge 🫡🖖 pic.twitter.com/j1zTGPgbjU

— mRr3b00t (@UK_Daniel_Card) April 18, 2025


The British Army successfully tested a radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarms: https://t.co/l1jxcytMuB

— Electrospaces (@electrospaces) April 18, 2025


SECURITY ALERT: @KOanhHa and @EditorStacy are ELUSIVE COMET sockpuppet accounts targeting crypto firms through fake Bloomberg interview requests. They've stolen millions using social engineering to activate Zoom remote control. Report these accounts.

— Trail of Bits (@trailofbits) April 18, 2025

Zoom's remote control feature is a security liability. We've created macOS scripts that prevent exploitation by disabling this functionality. Protect your systems: https://t.co/aioHRK2E2R

— Trail of Bits (@trailofbits) April 18, 2025


Pretty fun proof of concept - VS Code's https://t.co/rqmtwv9s8g allows for blatant backdooring of agents if any AI agents or edits are run from an untrusted repository. It can seemingly fulfil the user's request, but actually implement (and hide) some nefarious side activities 😂 pic.twitter.com/BZRi2voSKM

— Cas van Cooten (@chvancooten) April 18, 2025


Large Language Models (LLMs) are Unreliable for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI): https://t.co/Sp4UojX4I9

— Electrospaces (@electrospaces) April 18, 2025


We just shared two new DEFCON 33 CTF two write-ups on our blog!
🛠 Jinheon Lee (KU, 4th year) wrote about jxl4fun2 (pwn)
🧠 Jimin Jeong (KU, 4th year) covered tinii (rev)
Check them out:
🔗 https://t.co/XiVyrqprz1
🔗 https://t.co/Uw8iKsRUXW#CTF #DEFCON #DEFCON33 #CyKor pic.twitter.com/iDWi0ZFxDf

— CyKor (@CyKorKU) April 17, 2025


A federal judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time.https://t.co/fPRy6CZ6JE

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) April 18, 2025


Check out https://t.co/7aFQgcEzKD - it's a fun learning experience! pic.twitter.com/UsB7eLcYeJ

— Vivek Galatage (@vivekgalatage) April 17, 2025


A day late is better than not at all 📰 EC 68 out now!

PAC CTF chal from @0xItarow @Archie_1997 dissects Riot Vanguard Hooks

Starlink teardown and emulation from @DarkNavyOrg @a13xp0p0v drops a linux exploitation playground

+ Jobs and MORE 🏴‍☠️https://t.co/DjxdNtUAQW

— exploits.club (@exploitsclub) April 18, 2025


We are approximately two weeks away from the 250th anniversary of the most commonly accepted starting point of the Revolutionary War.

But what were battles in the Revolutionary War really like? It's a subject that, as a history professor, I have spent my life studying.

🧵1/22 pic.twitter.com/a3xAgcqZKQ

— Dr. Alexander S. Burns (@KKriegeBlog) April 2, 2025

Kabinettskriege:: What were battles like in the Revolutionary War? A 250th Guide

  Dear Reader, We are approximately two weeks away from the 250th anniversary of the most commonly accepted starting point of the American R...


“Trickery will always play a role in warfare. New domains offer novel ways to manipulate and fool an opponent.” A good piece on deception and EW from @WarOnTheRocks https://t.co/nolk5CJP96

— Mick Ryan, AM (@WarintheFuture) April 19, 2025


Godbolt of Compiler Explorer fame was recently at goto; conference and gave a talk on “what every programmer should know about CPUs” including modern CPU pipeline, branch prediction, performance related topics etc

must watch for all imo pic.twitter.com/MgQ3XWFCCO

— ludwig (@ludwigABAP) April 18, 2025


Kevin Beaumont: "Recall still scoops up WhatsApp and Signal chats,…" - Cyberplace

Attached: 1 image Recall still scoops up WhatsApp and Signal chats, haven't tried others yet. Fully searchable and stored as text in the local Recall database. My blur on screenshot.


Imagine landing such a sick burn on a cop, a court of law rules that it is beyond question that you were firing on all cylinders https://t.co/q0UuIMNdNp

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 18, 2025


Pikuma: Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim

The history of Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software. This article looks at the historical events that shaped the evolution of these text editors.


A Chinese company tried to steal secrets from a quiet Missouri factory, US. The FBI set a sting operation and caught it all on camera.https://t.co/EXeneK5qwa

— JT (@johntroony) April 19, 2025


Pishi v-0.9 source codehttps://t.co/isUCAzxJh2 https://t.co/kqKDex2gae

— Meysam (@R00tkitSMM) April 17, 2025


pic.twitter.com/rOze8zKnNZ

— A. Z. (@antoniozekic) April 18, 2025


The last duel fought in Argentina.


Russia's intelligence services have significantly altered their HUMINT - Robert Lansing Institute https://t.co/RykpfEsrcw

— BUCSIS (@BUCSIS2) April 19, 2025

https://lansinginstitute.org/2024/11/26/12596/


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