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Bishop Fox identified over 400K SonicWall VPN Firewalls with either a management interface or SSL VPN interface that are internet exposed. Of these devices, over 20K are running end-of-life firmware versions. However, a larger total of over 25K firewalls that are exposed are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability, and nearly 100K are exposed to a high vulnerability.
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) are specialized systems that handle time-critical tasks with strict deadlines. Unlike general operating systems, RTOS prioritizes predictable execution timing and is essential in applications from car brakes to video games where split-second precision is crucial. This blog post dives into everything RTOS and their uses for cybersecurity.
The author decided to examine the Wazuh EDR tool via fuzzing and found 2 vulnerabilities that could lead to total network compromise. Wazuh consists of an agent that runs on the device, a server that accepts events from the agent, and an analysis engine that parses the event to trigger actions. The author describes how they discovered a command injection vulnerability in the host_deny active response which they chained with a heap buffer overflow that allowed for RCE to achieve unauthenticated RCE as root to compromise a full network.
The Winnti hacking group has begun using a new Glutton backdoor to attack targets in the US and China. Glutton is a PHP malware that masquerades as a php-fpm process that facilitates fileless execution and injects malicious code into PHP files. It is an advanced backdoor that establishes persistence and supports 22 commands for C2. Notably, the Winnti group has been hiding Glutton in tools sold on cybercrime forums to attack other cybercrime groups and steal their information.
Krueger, a .NET post-exploitation tool, can remotely disable Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) during lateral movement procedures. It utilizes Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), a Microsoft application control utility capable of blocking code at both user and kernel-mode levels. With administrative privileges on a remote target, Krueger can deploy a WDAC policy and remotely reboot the device, preventing the EDR service from starting.
OPA 1.0 is a major release that enhances Policy as Code development, focusing on improving the developer experience and consistency of the language. Users are encouraged to upgrade to OPA 1.0 for new features, syntax improvements, and performance enhancements, with detailed instructions provided for a smooth transition. The release signifies a significant milestone for the project, offering a solid foundation for Policy as Code projects and inviting community feedback to shape future releases.
Flare watches for signs on the dark web that its customers' logins are being circulated and then automatically resets the impacted passwords before the thieves can gain access. It also watches for stolen session cookies that can trick computers into thinking the hacker is a previously authenticated user.
Much of the common wisdom around Cloud Security as well as CNAPP tooling does not consider the discoverability aspect of exploiting resources. This post enumerates some prior work on AWS reconnaissance techniques such as exploiting CDK naming, brute forcing SQS queues, abusing misconfigured ECR policies, and domain takeover via deleted S3 buckets. The author then introduces a new tool that they created called awseye that can enumerate discoverable resources given an AWS account ID.
AWS Secrets Manager offers transforms that will add a nested CloudFormation stack for HostedLambdaRotation that allows for pre-built Lambdas for secrets rotations for a subset of supported secrets. AWS has now enhanced this offering to support automatic upgrades of the Lambda functions as well as more CloudFormation resource attributes. The blog post contains upgrade instructions but also notes that the new transforms are not backwards compatible.
This detailed blog post from Google Project Zero explores the regf file format used by the Windows Registry since Windows NT 3.1, which uniquely represents registry data simultaneously on disk and in memory. The format consists of several key components including a base block (header), bins that store data in 4KB chunks, and cells that contain the actual registry data like keys, values, and security descriptors. The post also explains how Windows implements self-healing properties when loading potentially corrupted hives, attempting to fix or isolate damaged data while preserving overall hive integrity whenever possible.
Rostislav Panev, a developer of the LockBit ransomware group, has been arrested by the United States for his role in cyberattacks causing billions in damages.
CISA has released guidance for protecting mobile communications following Chinese state hackers targeting major US telecom carriers.
The top 10 software weaknesses are XSS, OOB write, SQL injection, CSRF, path traversal, OOB read, OS command injection, use after free, missing AuthZ, and unrestricted upload of files with dangerous types.
Many brands stumbled this year by trying to be bold without understanding their audiences. Jaguar's rebrand drew criticism for ignoring its heritage, while Bumble's edgy campaign sparked backlash and led to an apology and retraction. Apple and Coca-Cola faced pushback for ads involving creative destruction and AI use.
47% of Gen Z and 43% of millennials plan to self-gift this holiday season, a trend that grew during BFCM. With higher incomes and fewer financial responsibilities, they're spending on clothing, health products, and experiences. Influencer marketing on platforms like TikTok drives personalized wish lists, while retailers like Oura Ring cater to the demand for self-care.
Humans are unreliable at predicting future behavior, making questions like "Would you use this?" less effective in customer interviews. Effective discovery focuses on understanding the current struggles and actions of actual buyers, not just those who match an ideal customer profile. Talking to people already in the buying journey also yields the most actionable insights.
Micro-interactions, such as TurboTax's motivational prompts or ClickUp's hover effects, guide users smoothly through tasks while minimizing frustration and errors. These small, purposeful design features enhance engagement, provide clear feedback, and infuse brand personality without overwhelming users.
A 40 second video on how to use Kling.ai to create an instant 360° product showcase.
A free marketing resource designed by Sean Choi to give back time for more impactful campaigns, activation, and content planning. It contains important dates for 2025 events, holidays, and observances. It also has top Twitter and Google Trends data from this year all in one sheet.
Every filter combination in faceted navigation creates a unique URL, leading to issues like duplicate content and wasted crawl budget. Addressing these challenges with canonical tags, robots.txt rules, and optimized sitemaps helps search engines to focus on high-value pages. When done right, faceted navigation improves both user experience and organic search rankings.
Many viral meme pages are sophisticated marketing tools for brands. For example, 1up drives 90% of its sales pipeline via a meme page called "Crushing Quota." Meme marketing is effective, cheap, and high-leverage. It focuses on niche problems and inside jokes relevant to the target audience.
Many holiday traditions, like Santa Claus and candy canes, originated from marketing campaigns in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coca-Cola's 1930s Santa ads standardized the modern image of Santa, while Hallmark popularized mass-produced Christmas cards in the early 20th century. Candy canes and Hershey's Kisses became holiday staples through clever advertising, and Starbucks' red holiday cup, introduced in 1997, now signals the start of the season. These campaigns shaped cultural celebrations, embedding brands into holiday rituals.
A list of emails from brands that contain witty copy, purposeful animation, and clever personalized content.
The 3 types of tags include cross-domain, single-domain, and self-referencing.
This piece clarifies the necessity of Growth teams by distinguishing between growth marketing and growth product.
Consistent SEO success requires weekly strategy meetings, SME collaboration, optimized UX, and regular reporting.
Offline-first app development prioritizes local data storage and synchronization with the server after the fact, so that data persists even without internet connectivity. This article goes into the various ways to implement offline-first architectures natively on the web using components like IndexedDB, the Cache API, and Service Workers. It also goes over strategies for conflict resolution, state management, error recovery, and testing.
Researchers significantly improved SQLite's analytical query performance by using Bloom filters. The original nested loop join implementation in SQLite, used for joining tables, resulted in many costly B-tree probes. By incorporating Bloom filters, the researchers created a pre-filtering mechanism, drastically reducing the number of B-tree probes needed. This optimization, implemented via new "Filter" and "FilterAdd" opcodes, resulted in a 7x-10x speed increase for analytical queries in SQLite.
Fastmail uses its own hardware for email services because it allows for cost optimization and long-term planning over the dynamic scaling offered by cloud services. This approach allows for more efficient hardware usage, where equipment can be used for 5-10 years. Fastmail recently upgraded to a ZFS-based NVMe SSD system, leading to big performance and space savings through compression while eliminating the complexities of traditional RAID setups.
Long-term software development is best done by minimizing dependencies, rigorously testing, and prioritizing simple, well-documented code to combat complexity that inevitably increases over time. The importance of a stable team, regular dependency audits, and comprehensive logging were also stressed in the author's presentation shown in this article.
The author advocates for maintaining a personal changelog of work activities, inspired by open-source best practices. This changelog improves communication in one-on-one meetings, onboarding new employees, and provides a personal reference and self-reflection tool. The author's changelog, updated weekly, enhances transparency and trust with colleagues and managers by providing a clear record of their work. The benefits include increased productivity, improved knowledge sharing, and self-assessment of work efficiency, ultimately leading to professional growth.
S2 is a new serverless stream storage service designed to be a cloud-native alternative to traditional streaming platforms like Kafka. It offers a simple, scalable API for appending and reading records with strong consistency and concurrency control. It has more throughput and lower latency than existing serverless options.
Stagehand is an open-source, AI-powered web automation framework built on Playwright that offers simple APIs (act, extract, and observe) for natural language-driven web interactions. It supports various LLMs.
To address the problem of an AI code review bot generating excessive comments, the Greptile team experimented with various methods, including prompt engineering and using the LLM to judge its own comments, but these attempts failed. They eventually succeeded by implementing a clustering approach, using vector embeddings of past comments to identify and filter out "nit" comments (those technically correct but unimportant). This resulted in a big increase in the percentage of Greptile's comments addressed by developers from 19% to over 55%.
Meta undertook a massive project to translate its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, exceeding the halfway point despite having one of the world's largest codebases. To manage this at scale, it created the Kotlinator, a tool that automates the conversion process using JetBrains' J2K, supplemented by extensive pre- and post-processing steps to handle complexities and custom frameworks. This automation involved addressing build speed issues and creating a headless version of J2K to run conversions remotely, integrated with Meta's internal code review system.
FindMy.py is a cross-platform Python library for interacting with Apple's Find My network.
OpenAI's o3 model synthesizes code like a developer, blurring the lines between user and developer roles and prompting questions about developer relevance and the ethical implications of trusting AI-generated code without understanding its logic.
GitHub Assistant is a proof-of-concept application that allows devs to ask questions to GitHub repositories using natural language.
The JetBrains IDE source code is easily accessible and people will pay for it still due to other benefits, such as release cadence of new features.
Google is reportedly planning to add an AI Mode option to Search that will enable users to get conversational answers instead of search results. AI Mode will be accessible via a tab near the top of the search results page. It will include links to external websites below its conversational answers. Other companies, such as Perplexity AI, Reddit, and OpenAI also offer conversational AI search capabilities.
SpaceX's satellite-to-cell Starlink texting service is now operational in New Zealand through telecommunications company One NZ. Starlink texting can take up to 10 minutes or longer, but most messages should be sent and received within three minutes during the initial rollout. The service is only supported on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and OPPO Find X8 Pro - the list of eligible devices is expected to grow next year. The satellite service is free for existing One NZ customers on paid-monthly plans.
Blue Origin may ignite the seven main engines on its New Glenn rocket soon at Launch Complex-36 in Florida. It will be the final test before the rocket goes on its debut flight. This will be the first time Blue Origin has ever fired all of the BE-7 engines together. Blue Origin could still launch New Glenn this year - some employees have been asked to work on Christmas Day.
Virginia may become the site of the world's first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant - if all goes to plan. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a startup that plans to make a multibillion-dollar investment into building the facility near Richmond. The plant will be able to produce enough energy to power 150,000 homes. The path forward for the project is unlikely to be smooth as the technology has not yet been proven viable.
Mizu is a lightweight and customizable JavaScript library that makes building powerful web apps easy. It allows developers to render content wherever it is needed however they want through user-friendly APIs. Mizu is compatible across a wide range of JavaScript and TypeScript runtimes and all major browsers. It adapts to developers' needs, whether they're serving content, generating static websites, or creating dynamic pages in the browser, without the hassle of bundlers, transpilers, or countless dependencies.
Flaws in the API for the McDonald's McDelivery system in India enabled several exploits such as the ability to order any number of menu items for ₹1, the ability to retrieve the details of any order, the ability to view admin KPI reports, and more. This article covers how these flaws were discovered and how they could be exploited. It looks at the technologies that the fast food company uses and explains how to secure them against attacks. McDonald's India has a bug bounty (McDonald's USA doesn't) - the researcher was rewarded a $240 Amazon gift card.
Spotify is rumored to be filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians, or 'ghost' or 'fake' artists, presumably to reduce royalty payouts. The company might be making the tracks itself. Playlists created by the company are becoming crucial sources of revenue for independent artists and labels. Spotify denies claims that it is creating its own fake-artist tracks. This article looks at these ghost artists and the evidence pointing to Spotify's role in them.
A Redditor claims that they have a final release Switch 2 and its dock. A moderator said that the user offered sizable proof of their claim. The Redditor confirmed that the Switch 2 will have magnetically attached JoyCons rather than the slide-on controls in the original Switch. They say they will release pictures of their console on Christmas Day. Nintendo may be revealing the device as early as January.
1X Technologies' Neo humanoid robot is scheduled to debut in 2025 - it will not be fully autonomous but will be paired with a human operator capable of directing the robot from afar.
It's possible to make an Apple Watch work with an Android phone using open source applications, interoperable protocols, and third-party services.
Clay is a high performance 2D UI layout library that features microsecond layout performance, a flex-box-like layout model for complex, responsive layouts, WebAssembly support, and more.