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Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
Many open-source and industry software projects, including several here at Amazon, are embracing the Rust programming language, since it provides performance and flexibility similar to that of the C programming language, while its clever type system automatically prevents a variety of bugs and security vulnerabilities. The result is fast code that's more correct and secure than average.
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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Mathew Duggan argues GDPR’s loudest critics reveal its value: privacy law that actually constrains surveillance-business models, despite compliance theater and uneven enforcement.
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Finding bugs used to be the best part of the job. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Just spawned Codex in the background. I’m hoping I will land a critical by the time I finish writing this. It was a normal day. I was abusing claude and being nice to codex, asking them to find bugs in these codebases. Then, at some point, I stopped and thought: What the hell am I doing?
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Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
Calif describes vulnerabilities it reported to OpenBSD, including a shared-memory attachment counter defined as a signed 16-bit short in the original BSD sources roughly 37 years ago. Overflowing it enabled a use-after-free that, combined with a separate kernel out-of-bounds write, gave local root despite KARL and SMAP; fixes shipped as errata 026 and 018.
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Claroty Team82 details vulnerabilities in widely deployed Danfoss AK-SM 800A supermarket refrigeration controllers, how attackers could disrupt cold-chain operations, coordinated disclosure with Danfoss, and hardening guidance for operators.
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An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot
Princeton CITP fellow Max Springer shows that, using AI tools and only public records, he reconstructed the order of 1.5 million ballots (98.9% of in-person ballots) in Georgia's May 2026 primary by reversing a deterministic shuffle flaw in ballot scanners disclosed in 2022, and urges jurisdictions using Dominion scanners to install version 5.17 or newer.
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Android NAT-T Keepalive Offload Bypasses VPN Lockdown: Device-Class Exposure Across Most Android 12+ DevicesTechnical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Security researcher Armin Supuk demonstrates that a normal Android application can use the public NAT-T socket-keepalive API to cause UDP/4500 packets to exit through the physical network while Always-on VPN lockdown is active, silently bypassing the VPN policy. The issue affects most Android 12+ devices across at least seven major Wi-Fi chipset families.
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From your doorbell to your home network: hacking the Eufy doorbell and base station
Adepts of 0xCC write up a summer hobby project reverse engineering a Eufy video doorbell and HomeBase: remotely jamming the doorbell off its network, decoding the soundwave sync protocol, and extracting and decrypting the hidden-network credentials from a memory dump.
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Benoît Devilliers hardens a Hermes assistant for client data: Tailscale-only VPS, least-privilege bot accounts, spending caps, per-user agents, and Infisical Agent Vault so credentials never sit in the model context.
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Bringing this site to Tor as a hidden service. This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a `.onion` address that resolves only inside the Tor network.<sup>1</sup> <sup>1</sup> Open it in the Tor Browser. There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself. Tor rela
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Giving Your Home AI Agent Real Tools: MCP Servers on a Mac mini M6
A walkthrough of the MCP servers James M runs on a Mac mini M6—filesystem, email, calendar, notes, home automation—and the permission choices that keep an always-on home agent from becoming a liability.
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A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks Into A Telnet Server (GNU inetutils Telnetd CVE-2026-32746 Pre-Auth RCE)
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That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
Chris Jones recounts stepping in as interim IT manager and discovering six new MacBooks missing, then how an IT contractor's stories of dead batteries, suspicious repair cases filed on a personal Apple account and oddly shipped replacements unravelled into the discovery that he had been stealing and reselling laptops for over a year.
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A Mere Mortal's Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines
Josiah Pierce demystifies JavaScript engine JIT bugs for mere mortals: how speculative optimization creates exploitable gaps, with a grounded intro to engine architecture and vulnerability patterns.
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Software sandboxing: The basics
A deep primer on software sandboxing: threat models, OS mechanisms, and practical patterns for isolating untrusted code—foundational reading for secure systems and agent runtimes.
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The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography
Sudheer Apte recalls how Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Gold-Bug, read in middle school in India, introduced him to cryptography. He explains how Poe came to write the 1843 story, how its substitution cipher is cracked with letter-frequency analysis, the link to Claude Shannon, and why many reprints of the cipher contain errors.
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Flatpak - an insecurity nightmare
Despite its title, Yves Auxier’s post defends Flatpak: it argues the Linux desktop needs sandboxed distribution, that insecure static permissions reflect old or unmigrated apps rather than a broken sandbox, that runtimes get security updates, and cites the fractureiser malware as a case where the sandbox helped.
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Rendering untrusted HTML email, safely
Close's Phil Freo explains how the sales CRM renders synced, untrusted HTML email safely inside its single-page app entirely on the client side, comparing server-side sanitizing and other approaches to the sandboxed iframe technique it uses, along with handling iframe height and a secure WYSIWYG editor for composing.
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