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PDF slides from a presentation by Paul Gerste at DEF CON 32. It turns out some databases have vulnerabilities in their binary protocols that can be exploited by carefully crafted …
Part one: https://dayzerosec.com/blog/2023/04/17/reversing-the-amd-secure-processor-psp.html This is a follow-up part 2 to my previous post on the AMD Secure Processor (formerly known as the Platform Security Processor or "PSP"). In that post, I mentioned that the Cryptographic Co-Processor (CCP) is an essential…
Did you know that birds aren't real? They are actually mobile devices that have cameras and microphones to maintain surveillance by the government. You may be asking yourself why they do not just use the cell phones in everyone's pocket; hey, I don't know; I don't make the rules.Now that I have completely destroyed my…
You might be hearing a lot about post-quantum (PQ) cryptography lately, and it’s easy to wonder why it’s such a big deal when nobody has actually seen a quantum computer. But even if a quantum computer is never built, new PQ standards are safer, more resilient, and more flexible than their classical […]
Teenagers' hands are the devil's playthings.
Data harvesters are reaching into virtually every part of your digital life through the little-known surveillance hardware industry.
Recently at Internet Archive a “glitch” (their choice of word) deleted a great many accounts, including my account that had been at archive.org/details/@ging...
Using thermal physics, cosmology, and computer science to calculate password vulnerability to the biggest possible brute-force attack.
We’ve crafted a bold defense strategy that not only slows scans but actively disrupts and deceives attackers.
CVE-2023-6927 Keycloak vulnerability allows bypassing redirect URI validation which can be used as a vector for stealing authorization codes, access tokens and be used to redirect victims to arbitrary hosts.
While everyone was waiting on news for the successor of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released the Alarmo. A small plastic alarm clock that ...
I bought a new M1 MacBook Pro in April 2022. A little over two years later, I'm seeing a service recommended message, and the maximum capacity of the battery is now down to 78%. Admittedly, my MacBook Pro experiences heavy usage: basically all day, every day. The batteries in my previous 2014 Intel MacBook Pro, which…
MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense , whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. CISA urged all Sisense customers to reset…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Learn How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files!
In just a few years, Flipper Zero has become so popular that it’s now surrounded by many myths. It’s no wonder that people in power are trying to make Flipper Zero illegal. As you might have seen in the news, the Canadian government plans to ban Flipper Zero
This document contains the R 5 N DHT technical specification. R 5 N is a secure distributed hash table (DHT) routing algorithm and data structure for decentralized applications. It features an open peer-to-peer overlay routing mechanism which supports ad-hoc permissionless participation and support for topologies in…
Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation…
Few weeks ago, the German political magazine Panorama and STRG_F reported that law enforcement agencies infiltrated the Tor network in order to expose criminals. The reporters had access to documents showing four successful deanonymizations. I was given the chance to review some documents. In this post, I am…
Posted on Monday 23 Dec 2024. 1,634 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.
moved this website 'worldofmatthew.com' away from CloudFlare back in August 2020.That should have been the end of the relation with CloudFlare for my website.
