Collaborate Disseminate
[Pepijn de Vos] wanted a 6DOF HID. You know, a 6 Degrees Of Freedom Hardware Interface Device. Those are the fancy controllers for navigating in 3D space, for uses like …read more Continue reading DIY SpaceNavigator Brings the Freedom
Ah, the beloved Commodore 64. The “best-selling computer system of all time”. And hobbyists are keeping the dream alive, still producing software for it today. Which leads us to a …read more Continue reading Commodore Datasette Does Its Own Calibration
One of our favorite musical hackers, [Look Mum No Computer] is getting dangerously close to building a computer. His quest was to create a unique drum machine, inspired by a …read more Continue reading Rope Core Drum Machine
[Scott Prints] had a familiar problem. His garage door opener was boring, and rattled around annoyingly in his car’s center console. This was obviously a major issue that needed to …read more Continue reading Garage Door Opener Ejection Seat
The security world held our collective breaths early this week for the big OpenSSL vulnerability announcement. Turns out it’s two separate issues, both related to punycode handling, and they’ve been …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: OpenSSL Fizzle, Java XML, and Nothing As It Seems
Earlier this week, a new release of iOS rolled out, fixing a handful of security issues. One in particular noted it “may have been actively exploited”, and was reported anonymously. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: iOS, OpenSSL, And SQLite
Up first this week is a quintet of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel’s wireless code. It started with [Soenke Huster] from TU Darmstadt, who found a buffer overwrite in mac80211 …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Linux WiFi, Fortinet, Text4Shell, and Predictable GUIDs
First up is some clever wizardry from the [Aqua Nautilus] research team, who discovered a timing attack that leaks information about private npm packages. The setup is this, npm hosts …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: npm Timing Leak, Siemens Universal Key, and PHP in PNG
If you use PHP, you likely use the Composer tool for managing dependencies, at least indirectly. And the good folks at SonarSource found a nasty, potential supply chain attack in …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: PHP Attack Defused, Scoreboard Manipulation, and Tillitis
When [Jak_o_Shadows] Siglent Oscilloscope died, he didn’t just mourn the loss, he saw an opportunity. See, he had a Raspberry Pi 400 already set aside for a cyberdeck build, and …read more Continue reading 2022 Cyberdeck Contest: The Oscilloscope Deck