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June 9, 2024

June 9, 2024

June 9, 2024

As another dinosaur who knows the ancient dance, I feel you @daveaitel. While I get the need for better tooling, the modern approach of internalizing all buggy code that ever existed can't be the solution. We need interfaces, specifications, or compartmentalization. pic.twitter.com/SYltUEXInT

โ€” Mathias Payer (@gannimo) June 9, 2024


Brezhnev won the Afghan War (the Taliban government is overtaken by the bureaucracy)

โ€” geodome โšซ๏ธ๐Ÿ—ฟ (@spewingfluids) February 28, 2023


The libarchive e8 vulnerability is actually really cool, but the ZDI advisory doesn't explain why it's so wild lol. For some reason, I know about RAR filters, so let me provide the background. ๐Ÿงต 1/n

โ€” Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) June 6, 2024

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@taviso: The libarchive e8 vulnerability is actually really cool, but the ZDI advisory doesn't explain why it's so wild lol. For some reason, I know about RAR filters, so let me provide the background. ๐Ÿงต 1/n E8...โ€ฆ

I found this with libfuzzer and a corpus chosen by coverage feedback. The project has been on OSSFuzz but has poor coverage with their harness/corpus.

โ€” shuffle2 (@shuffle2) June 7, 2024


The KGB interrogation room in Riga. Untouched since the end of the Soviet occupation.

Moving pic.twitter.com/igDpMFpvjk

โ€” Rory Cormac (@RoryCormac) June 7, 2024


I didn't know you could get a PhD in @CTFtime analytics: https://t.co/Iixemr0FWv

.. jokes aside, interesting read and overall exhaustive research ๐Ÿ‘

โ€” blasty (@bl4sty) June 9, 2024


Two parts series introducing inner working of System Management Mode (SMM) isolation on Intel platforms
Credits @standa_t

Part 1: https://t.co/D44CbBrDCj
Part 2: https://t.co/mEnnZBngOb#ssm pic.twitter.com/j40tMrJfRl

โ€” 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) June 9, 2024


Since I'm 6 drinks in for 20 bucks, let me tell you all about the story of how the first Microsoft Office 2007 vulnerability was discovered, or how it wasn't.

This was a story I was gonna save for a book but fuck it, I ain't gonna write it anyways.

โ€” Greg Linares (Laughing Mantis) (@Laughing_Mantis) June 8, 2024

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@Laughing_Mantis: Since I'm 6 drinks in for 20 bucks, let me tell you all about the story of how the first Microsoft Office 2007 vulnerability was discovered, or how it wasn't. This was a story I...


"We will lie to customers unless legally obligated not to" is an uncharitable yet accurate reading of AWS's position here. pic.twitter.com/QR8mDFztpq

โ€” Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) June 7, 2024


The Atredis team has released a combination IDA Pro plug-in and LLM fine-tuned on Hex-Rays pseudocode named aiDAPal.

Github Repo: https://t.co/d8I0R4DSRu

Blog: https://t.co/j7wUSgs5if

Hugging Face: https://t.co/SGlBB2gcxW

Ollama model file: https://t.co/ZicoqKYegR pic.twitter.com/qFqfC3anNV

โ€” Pedram Amini (@pedramamini) June 8, 2024


https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/CyberDefenseReport_%20From%20Vegas%20to%20Chengdu.pdf


https://actes.sstic.org/SSTIC24/sstic-2024-actes.pdf


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