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February 10, 2024

February 10, 2024

February 10, 2024

sometimes propaganda and counter-propaganda simply comes down to an age old question:

[FCO 1971] pic.twitter.com/wchEbj0fFm

— Rory Cormac (@RoryCormac) February 9, 2024


Absolutely beautiful, can't wait to pull this apart.

How many file signatures can you identify in this hex dump alone? https://t.co/THzM1KQ0o4 pic.twitter.com/l2O3dUvHRB

— Battle Programmer Yuu (@netspooky) February 6, 2024

MD5 4d37c6712a2239962005eda3be6367b4 pic.twitter.com/8TMVS6sQlM

— Travis Goodspeed (@travisgoodspeed) February 6, 2024

Related:

GitHub - netspooky/yxd: yxd - Yuu's heX Dumper


Russian Cyberwarfare: Unpacking the Kremlin’s Capabilities

History of Russian cyber units. Fascinating.

Russian Cyberwarfare: Unpacking Kremlin Capabilities - CEPA

In the unsettling landscape of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, cyber remains one of the most enduring mysteries.


Unpopular opinion - I think China has an incredible healthy estate of cyber attack capability, while the US has relied too much on private industry, which has delivered a crumbling heap of cyber debt that other countries and ransomware groups can and are running rings around. pic.twitter.com/tNgnZ6OIbG

— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) February 9, 2024


With the (fake) toothbrush botnet story still fresh, Colgate's connected Bluetooth toothbrush caught my eye on discount at the local supermarket.

"Hi there, let's get to know each other"

Sure, let's do this. What will we learn? (1/n) 👇 pic.twitter.com/Tdxu4QTQCC

— HaxRob (@haxrob) February 10, 2024

Thread by @haxrob on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@haxrob: With the (fake) toothbrush botnet story still fresh, Colgate's connected Bluetooth toothbrush caught my eye on discount at the local supermarket. "Hi there, let's get to know each other" Sure, let's do this....…


Introduction guide to Linux kernel internals and modules development (updated to 5.x kernels)

"The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"https://t.co/TTPKOJr3J1#Linux #kernel pic.twitter.com/lDVFTYw76n

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) February 9, 2024


I don't know how I missed these 2 posts by Casey and JacobT @ThinkstCanary

The way Subtee sets traps, Kevin from Home Alone can learn a few things.

Brilliant. Just brilliant !!https://t.co/lbQMeE1mTNhttps://t.co/mzH0rTzxwR

Picked this up from a @kwm LI post.

— Sunny Chakraborty (@sunnyc7) February 10, 2024


Where I used to work we read 0x10000 as a jillion, using the word in the Spanish dubbing of Futurama: gritón. Reading 32 bit numbers like so was quite convenient. 0x7654_3210 would be 7 thousand 6 hundred 54 jillion 3 thousand 2 hundred ten. https://t.co/bNUxKi0XVW

— Daniel Estévez (@ea4gpz) January 15, 2024

we should invent a spoken numeric system for hex numbers. describing an eight digit number with “million” and “thousand” really irritates me

— yugioh mishima (@myrrlyn) January 15, 2024


I try an avoid this hellsite, but I did a quick dive into sudo in Windows and here are my initial findings. https://t.co/Q1k1KAUlmB

The main take away is, writing Rust won't save you from logical bugs :)

— James Forshaw (@tiraniddo) February 9, 2024


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canada-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-to-stop-surge-in-car-thefts/


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