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How we rooted Copilot
After a long week, the Eye Security Research Team thought it was time for a small light-hearted distraction. So we rooted Copilot.
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 679 posts.
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I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
The personal website of James Belchamber.
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TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
TinyKVM can be used to sandbox regular Linux programs or programs with specialized APIs embedded into your servers.
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Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
In the expanding world of AI my heart still lies in AST transforms, browser fingerprinting, and anti-bot circumvention. But my workflow felt... primitive.
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TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
Hi friends and welcome to the last post for this year! Whenever someone asks me how to get started with reverse engineering, I always give the same advice: buy…
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Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
The library for web and native user interfaces
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Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
A colleague spotted base64-encoded JSON in a long string of gibberish without any tools. I was amazed, until he explained how anyone can do it.
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Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
Memory safety and sandboxing are two different things. It's reasonable to think of them as orthogonal: you could have memory safety but not be sandboxed, or you could be sandboxed but not memory safe.
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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.
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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
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What's OAuth2, anyway?
Why the OAuth2 protocol was designed the way it is and how it works.
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Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
PoW is gone 🦀🦀
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Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
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Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control"
The EU’s Chat Control law would scan private messages and weaken encryption. Sign Mozilla Foundation’s petition to defend privacy and protect our digital future.
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A Vulnerability in Libsodium
Libsodium is now 13 years old!
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My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims Discussion at hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592377 Chapter 1: You’ve got mail As I was writing my first…
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Pwning the Ladybird Browser
Ladybird is a relatively new browser engine originating from the SerenityOS project . Currently, it’s in pre-alpha and improving quickly. Take a look at the website and the GitHub for more information!
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One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
While preparing for my Black Hat and DEF CON talks in July of this year, I found the most impactful Entra ID vulnerability that I will probably ever find. One that could have allowed me to compromise every Entra ID tenant in the world (except probably those in national cloud deployments). If you are an Entra ID admin…
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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
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NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
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Leaking Passwords and more on macOS
A security research blog.
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Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
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Firefox expands fingerprint protections
With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we
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X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
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Denuvo Analysis
This post is intended for educational purposes only. Denuvo is arguably the most successful digital rights management solution to have ever existed, and is therefore an interest to many. This blog contains a large amount of my personal notes and correspondence with other reverse engineers (see kudos ) which contains…
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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.