Just when you think CVEs cannot get more ridiculous... 🤣

Socket@socket.dev · 2y ago

📌 Node.js EOL versions just got their own CVE and critics are calling it “the worst CVE of the year.” Is this CVE a helpful PSA or an abuse of the system? Dive into the debate: socket.dev/blog/node-js... #NodeJS #cybersecurity #JavaScript

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

Telegram: not an encrypted messaging app ;) blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/t...

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, som…

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Want to support security researchers from Dragon Sector in covering legal costs piling up after they went public with logic bombs in train firmware? IBAN for donations is available here: www.ccc.de/en/updates/2... Talks for context media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142... streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/...

TIL about Chersterton's Fence fs.blog/chestertons-... - it puts a nice label to an intuition that I find very useful to apply in practice - from refactoring code, through process engineering. Understand first why the mess exists, in that form, before attempting to clean it up and revolutionize.

Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking

A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

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I don't often post about my work but bughunters.google.com/blog/6355265... is actually super cool thing my team is doing. These short term redteams focused on just stealing our passwords were always amazing to highlight how severely broken complex systems are. The internal writeups are so, so fun!

Blog: The Great Google Password Heist: 15 years of hacking passwords to test our security (and build team culture!)

The Leaving Tradition in Google's security team, which could be described as a type of small-scale offensive security exercise, is a great (and fun) example of team culture. Curious? See this blog pos...

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Pro tip for if you have XSS but you can only use upper case: aem1k.com/transliterat... transliterate.js by @aemkei.bsky.social works great!

transliterate.js

Translate any JavaScript code to foreign writing systems. Created by Martin Kleppe aka @aemkei.

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There's no such thing as a "9.2" or "9.8" vulnerability. There's more science in Pitchfork's 0.0-10.0 album rating scale than in CVSS. I am completely serious. Pitchfork reviewers actually put their reviews in context with previous reviews by the artist. That's how bad CVSS is: worse than Pitchfork.

Modern solutions against cross-site attacks (frederikbraun.de/modern-solut...): An article about cross-site leak attacks and browser-based defenses. You will also learn why web security best practices is always opt-in and finally how YOU can get increased security controls.

Not sure how I missed that, but we now actually have Ken Thompson's C compiler backdoor code from the classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust". An excellent writeup by @swtch.com - research.swtch.com/nih.

Custom lists are super cool! I enjoy reading social posts, but want to make sure I never miss a quality writeup or technique. To achieve this, I'm building a 'high signal web security' list of topic-focused accounts, which you can pin next to 'Following' if you want :) bsky.app/profile/jame...

1..2..3 testing testing. Does BlueSky support UltraHDR images?

We're doing a cool online talk tomorrow btw – hexarcana.ch/workshops/cv...

CVEs of SSH

A talk about recent high-profile issues related to the SSH ecosystem.

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This hit close to home.

Matt Linton@amuse.bsky.social · 2y ago

As we incident responders creep into the holidays and wait for our annual December surprise, I can't help thinking about burnout - always a relevant topic! Like most ops topics, I have a lot of thoughts on the matter. osdfir.blogspot.com/...

Read this! Beautiful blog post, and so much to learn from it mizu.re/post/explori...

Exploring the DOMPurify library: Bypasses and Fixes. Tags:Article - Article - Web - mXSS

Exploring the DOMPurify library: Bypasses and Fixes

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Time to make some smart introductory websec post here, no? I guess all I have is: Hello world, good bye XSS?

I'm in the process of creating a *web security* starter pack and need your help finding more webbies here. Please share and recommend folks passionate about web security in comments below so we can get this community started here 🙂 go.bsky.app/Uf8dZhz

Photos from a stroll through Atarazanas Food Market in #malaga - it turned out to be an extremely vibrant, colorful, lively place. #photography

If you're into web security take a look at my LocoMocoSec keynote slides from this summer about "Google's Recipe for Scaling (Web) Security": speakerdeck.com/lweichselbau...