Collaborate Disseminate
It should be no surprise that running untrusted code in a GitHub Actions workflow can have unintended consequences. It’s a killer feature, to automatically run through a code test suite …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: GitHub Actions, SHA-1 Retirement, and a Self-Worming Vulnerability
If you’re part of a government alphabet agency, particularly running a program to share information to fight cybercrime, make sure to properly verify the identity of new members before admission. …read more Continue reading This Week In Security: Scamming the FBI, In The Wild, and AI Security
In what’s being described as a Humpty-Dumpty incident, Rackspace customers have lost access to their hosted Exchange service, and by extension, lots of archived emails. The first official word of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Rackspace Falls Over, Poison Ping, and the WordPress Race
While many of us were enjoying some time off for Thanksgiving, the US government took drastic action against Huawei and four other Chinese companies. The hardest hit are Huawei and …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Huawei Gets the Banhammer, Lastpass, and Old Code Breaking
Due to Twitter’s new policy of testing new features on production, the interest in Mastodon as a potential replacement has skyrocketed. And what’s not to love? You can host it …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Mastadon, Fake Software Company, and ShuffleCake
The pair of Outlook vulnerabilities we’ve been tracking have finally been patched, along with another handful of fixes this Patch Tuesday, a total of six being 0-day exploits. The third …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Microsoft Patches, Typosquatting Continues, and Code Signing for All
[Sean] from Classic Arcade Repairs fixes classic arcade machines, and he got a request to repair a very special machine. It’s Computer Space, the first commercial arcade cabinet ever made, …read more Continue reading Computer Space Flies Again
[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