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April 6, 2025

April 6, 2025

April 6, 2025

EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/?td=rt-3a


One Bug to Rule Them All: Stably Exploiting a Preauth RCE Vulnerability on Windows Server 2025https://t.co/cRR2IfpVpn@edwardzpeng @Ver0759

— xvonfers (@xvonfers) April 4, 2025


1977: Ron Rivest first introduced Alice and Bob in the paper "A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems". pic.twitter.com/64SUO6QDkM

— Today In Infosec (@todayininfosec) April 4, 2025


Emulating an iPhone in QEMU : https://t.co/qO5QD4DmAw pic.twitter.com/wwzxJTp3kK

— Binni Shah (@binitamshah) April 5, 2025


I wrote up some of my thoughts about NNs and how to think about them, and my visualization movies of training dynamics, in a blog post.

— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) April 5, 2025

ADD / XOR / ROL: Some experiments to help me understand Neural Nets better, post 2 of N

In this post, I will explain my current thinking about neural networks. In a previous post I explained the intuition behind my "origami vie...


If you ever think there are no more bugs left to find… this Linux kernel bug was just patched yesterday and existed for 5 YEARS pic.twitter.com/KrgZI5jUtL

— chompie (@chompie1337) April 4, 2025


https://tansanrao.com/blog/2025/04/xnu-kernel-and-darwin-evolution-and-architecture/


In 2020, I solved a gnarly reverse engineering challenge in PlaidCTF. Only 9 teams solved.

It's a huge pile of Typescript. Everything is named after a fish.

The catch? There's no code, only types. How do they perform computation using just the type system?

(Spoiler: Circuits!) pic.twitter.com/q40lBGz5H2

— cts🌸 (@gf_256) April 2, 2025

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@gf_256: In 2020, I solved a gnarly reverse engineering challenge in PlaidCTF. Only 9 teams solved. It's a huge pile of Typescript. Everything is named after a fish. The catch? There's no code, only types. How do...…


#SpyNews - week 14 (March 30–April 5):
A summary of 59 espionage-related stories from week 14 coming from 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇱🇵🇱🇬🇧🇹🇼🇨🇳🇵🇾🇧🇷🇮🇹🇫🇷🇰🇵🇩🇪🇵🇹🇧🇪🇿🇦🇬🇷🇾🇪🇨🇺🇭🇰🇧🇬🇦🇹🇵🇭🇨🇿🇧🇾🇹🇷🇱🇾 https://t.co/dqOyhcbyqp#OSINT #HUMINT #SIGINT #spy #espionage

— Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) April 6, 2025

SPY NEWS: 2025 — Week 14. Summary of the espionage-related news… | by The Spy Collection | Apr, 2025 | Medium

Summary of the espionage-related news stories for the Week 14 (March 30–April 5) of 2025.


The “S” in MCP Stands for Security | by Elena Cross | Apr, 2025 | Medium

Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.


1955: The modern definition of the word "hack" was coined at MIT, first appearing in the minutes of the Tech Model Railroad Club via the word "hacking".

That's right - 70 years of hacking! pic.twitter.com/UVBSgzsSO3

— Today In Infosec (@todayininfosec) April 5, 2025


NSA names acting director after top officials oustedhttps://t.co/XjMQUz2dro

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) April 5, 2025


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