1980s Hacker Manifesto
Forty years ago, The Mentor—Loyd Blankenship—published “The Conscience of a Hacker” in Phrack. You bet your ass we’re all alike……
Security
Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
Fascinating research: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs. AbstractLLMs are useful because they generalize so well.…
Friday Squid Blogging: The Chinese Squid-Fishing Fleet off the Argentine Coast
The latest article on this topic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security…
Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords
Palo Alto’s crosswalk signals were hacked last year. Turns out the city never changed the default passwords.
Deploying VSOCKpuppet: Unmasking how Chinese Threat Actors Exploited ESXi Zero-Days Before Disclosure
Network virtualization infrastructure continues to be a high-value target for well-resourced threat actors. Recent analysis has revealed a sophisticated intrusion…
Active Exploitation Alert: Critical RCE Vulnerability in HPE OneView
The cybersecurity landscape is ever-evolving, and recent reports indicate that a previously patched vulnerability in HPE OneView is now being…
Public PoC Released for Cisco ISE Information Disclosure Flaw
Cisco has recently addressed a medium-severity security vulnerability in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC).…
What is AES Encryption? How Advanced Encryption Standard works?
You are sharing sensitive information when you are seated at a cafe, using Wi-Fi, or just paying with your smartphone.…
Severe Veeam Backup Vulnerability Could Lead to Code Execution
Veeam, a prominent provider of data protection and disaster recovery solutions, has recently addressed multiple security vulnerabilities in its Backup…
AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work
Leaders of many organizations are urging their teams to adopt agentic AI to improve efficiency, but are finding it hard…