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April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025

Home | MIT Secure Hardware Design

MIT 6.5950/6.5951


Cracking the Crackers
Reversing the TNT team macOS crack library to understand if there is malware due to patching of pro-Ukraine support messages. With deobfuscators and dumper tools pushed to Github.

Have fun :-]https://t.co/s54kQhxWHT

— fG! (@osxreverser) April 1, 2025


An interesting essay on how US intelligence agencies judged Soviet intentions and capabilities & how that changed over time. "...probably incorrectly believing there was also a Soviet proclivity to prepare to launch a war if conditions seemed propitious" https://t.co/dL3FoQypcp pic.twitter.com/WXcEulzkxi

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 3, 2025

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@shashj: An interesting essay on how US intelligence agencies judged Soviet intentions and capabilities & how that changed over time. "...probably incorrectly believing there was also a Soviet proclivity to prepare t...…


fucking insane. some fish use electrical signals to navigate; if two fish on the same frequency encounter each other, they automatically switch frequencies to avoid "signal jamming" each other. exactly like how your wifi router does at home. wow. pic.twitter.com/EtxWU69Hwb

— meatball times (@meatballtimes) April 3, 2025


The Trump administration has fired the head of NSA and Cyber Command. It's unclear why: https://t.co/FuYU9LunMb

— Sean Lyngaas (@snlyngaas) April 4, 2025


🇺🇦 “Ukraine recorded at least three cyberattacks in March targeting government agencies and critical infrastructure...”

👀 “The attacks were carried out using previously unknown malware — dubbed Wrecksteel — deployed through phishing emails…” https://t.co/h8fU0D8XXJ

— Alexander Leslie (@aejleslie) April 3, 2025


Sondeos Global, an SMS gateway provider, compromised. Delivers OTP codes over SMS for million of people... I can't say this enough: it's time to deprecate SMS for 2FA! https://t.co/lYbLVqA10O

— Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - Spes consilium non est (@argvee) April 3, 2025


🚨 BREAKING: We barely understood how LLMs actually think… until NOW! 🤯@AnthropicAI just dropped an INSANE research paper revealing how AI processes language, plans ahead, and even "hallucinates." And trust me, it’s NOT what we expected.

Here are the wildest discoveries:… pic.twitter.com/dut41z4diz

— Mervin Praison (@MervinPraison) April 1, 2025


A Canadian volunteerr flying interceptor drones in Ukraine talks about his missions and the tactics and technology of a rapidly evolving drone war - my take for Forbes in comments below pic.twitter.com/rruZu9VgcO

— David Hambling (@David_Hambling) April 4, 2025

A Canadian Dreamed Of Being A Fighter Pilot. Now He Dogfights With Russian Drones

A Canadian volunteer flying interceptor drones in Ukraine talks about the changing drone war, and becoming the first foreigner to down a Russian Lancet attack drone.


Developing a Docker 1-Click RCE chain for fun | m0z

In this blog post we will explore the possibility of abusing Docker’s API to achieve a 1-click RCE chain.


As promised... this is Loki Command & Control! 🧙‍♂️🔮🪄
Thanks to @d_tranman for his work done on the project and everyone else on the team for making this release happen!https://t.co/fR44ukK1Y2

— Bobby Cooke (@0xBoku) April 3, 2025


Slides: "Unveiling the Mysteries of Hexagon QDSP6 JTAG" https://t.co/KaK34ByBBO

— Alisa Esage Шевченко (@alisaesage) April 3, 2025


Bill Gates just released his original source code for Basic - with a beautifully designed article - a huge piece of tech history - someone should make some art with this source code! pic.twitter.com/VwZwecmNbQ

— Marc Hemeon (@hemeon) April 3, 2025

Link

https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code


Interestingly, the Soviets had stolen NATO's secret war plans in the 1980s and discovered they were, in fact, defensive. After the Cold War, US officials asked why the Soviets kept calling NATO aggressive when they knew from exquisite intel, it was not. Soviet official's answer: https://t.co/LYH69YLKtY pic.twitter.com/eXdW3qBQuS

— Matt Costlow (@Matt_Costlow) April 3, 2025


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