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We just dropped 3 more challenges for today, we don't plan to release more for today. More to come tomorrow at 9am! #BSidesSF #CTF

Check out our Chrome Extension challenge, "moa-station", at ctf.bsidessf.net.
April 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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You are in for a punny time until launch!

Join us at ctf.bsidessf.net/register, the #BSidesSF #CTF kicks off at 4:00pm PDT tomorrow!
April 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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What's in the cards for this year? Join us next week at ctf.bsidessf.net and find out! #CTF #BSidesSF
April 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This shitpost may be a little too niche, but it's how the scraping struggle be these days (turn video audio on).
March 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Looks like DEF CON talks are up on YouTube! If you want to see a fun talk on crawling online markets for the spicy silicon, check mine out here: youtu.be/QgeEHdAmJDg
DEF CON 32 - Secret Life of Rogue Device: Lost IT Assets on the Public Marketplace - Matthew Bryant
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
youtu.be
October 20, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.
This might be the best executed supply chain attack we've seen described in the open, and it's a nightmare scenario: malicious, competent, authorized upstream in a widely used library.

Looks like this got caught by chance. Wonder how long it would have taken otherwise.
Woah. Backdoor in liblzma targeting ssh servers.

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se...

It has everything: malicious upstream, masterful obfuscation, detection due to performance degradation, inclusion in OpenSSH via distro patches for systemd support…

Now I’m curious what it does in RSA_public_decrypt
March 30, 2024 at 5:13 PM
July 1, 2023 at 7:51 AM
my immediate reaction to this site
June 22, 2023 at 5:23 AM