a well faked Mail Attachment.pdf.zip was opened by a team member, infecting a (Windows 10?) PC in the background browser login tokens in the form of cookies & browser passwords were exfiltrated mail attachments are STILL the #No1 threat in […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 90% of companies DO NOT NEED JavaScript or macros to run in PDF but still it is there… and Adobe knows about it: “JavaScripts in PDFs as a […]
Update: 2021-02 “A statement from the German Federal Criminal Police Office about their participation in Operation Ladybird said prosecutors seized 17 servers in Germany that acted as Emotet controllers.” and many bars of gold and cash were seized in Ukraine… […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]
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sudo apt-get install calibre To actually convert the EPUB file you can use the following command: ebook-convert file.epub file.pdf (For details, check this other answer)
Update: 2020-05 PDF are important file formats for document exchange, but in 2020 PDF as Mail-Attachments can not be 100% trusted anymore. how to create PDF under Linux? there are various programs that support export to PDF format least but […]
if you want to update / migrate to new version: i would use the live-update over backup-old-version and restore-on-new-version. But test this first on a local php xdebug test-server! (manually ftp / mysql copy all files / databases to your […]
there is a German saying: “only the Genius rules (one’s own or others) chaos” imho this is wrong, if one was a genius, there would be no chaos in the first place it would be “as perfect as possible” aka […]
since 2022: ARM in the datacenter for example Gigabyte R272-P33 in the ARM Ampere Altra Max Version: 2HE All-NVMe Server happyware.com) while Ampere Altra ARM CPUswere geekbenched a bit NO ONE GEEKBENCHED THIS SERVER YET! 😀 BE THE FIRST! 😀 […]
“execute built-in macros without warning” https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6186 why copy bad concepts aka mistakes? why repeat mistakes? NO MACRO LANG JAVASCRIPT BS SHALL BE EMBEDDABLE IN ANY FORMAT, NOT IN WORD.DOC NOT IN WRITER.ODT NOT FILE.PDF! UNLESS U ACTUALLY GET PAID BY […]
vendors & users can do: keep firmware and apps as up to date as possible this requires that vendors also publish patches for critical security problems for old devices (!!! AVM Fritz does it, Samsung & Apple can too!) install […]
scientists predict human leven AI by 2047 so DON’T HOLD THE BREATH What is GPT4All-J?: An Apache-2 Licensed Assistant-Style Chatbot What is Mistral Orca? https://huggingface.co/ “The AI community building the future.” “The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on […]
is VLC still the currently BEST music player for GNU Linux? vlc is excellent for simplicity, compatibility (best format compatibility ever seen, it has some stuttering when skipping forward or backward with mp4 x264 files, mplayer might still be the […]
in software development, testing needs to go as automated as possible and as fast as possible 😀 hostnamectl; Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # tested with gcc –version gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0 PROGNAME=”string_pointer_const.c”;time gcc […]
once upon a time, compressing massive amounts of binary was required. hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 lscpu | grep -E ‘Architecture|Model name|Thread|Core’; # tested on CPU Architecture: x86_64 Model name: […]
UNTESTED! 😀 these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. “Micron has been developing some of the world’s most advanced memory technologies for more than 40 years, including DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and […]
From Open Source software to Open Hardware: RISC-V is the future: “Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license. That’s all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1064876/riscv-computer-chips-10-breakthough-technologies-2023/ future Smart Phones could be […]
most important: use the WatchPower version that comes on CD with the solar charge controller, as newer or older versions might not be working (incompatible, changes in protocol etc) it might wise to use a galvanic isolator (even the shielding […]
There are not a lot of cross OS and cross CPU benchmarks and the user might know https://www.userbenchmark.com/ which is like Geekbench but only for windows geekbench.com is multi OS (not all) and multi (not all) CPU (developed by primatelabs.com […]
after 5 months of hardcore testing: imho the BIGGEST problem with the DFP9 is: reliability, thus this user is back to cable: Panasonic HJE125 (excellent audio quality (check em out on eBay)) happened twice: for some strange reason the case […]
the user has to know, that Mozilla is very much (still) dependant on Google’s money. in 2021 wrote this article. “Open Letter to Mozilla – Google’s Browser dominance – is Firefox not listening to user’s needs/requests?” They at least – […]
the positive: Okay let’s ALWAYS focus on the positive first: data, the web, free flow of information has given mankind new abilities: online learning-from-each-other (“social learning” one of said to be strong points of humans vs animals) better decision making […]
For inspiration to space travel, it is enough to watch the excellent-music scifi intros 😀 space travel inspirations – best most epic Sci Fi theme songs and intros current status quo of propulsion: SpaceX’s Starship 33x raptors (go raptors! go!) […]
(knowing that manually auto-translating Russian CyberSec news to English, is not a feasable concept and need to be automated, but as this blog is non-profit, it is for curiosity.) Booking.com found an authentication vulnerability that allows account hijacking A vulnerability […]
an new wallbox needs to be jumper reset, otherwise it won’t be recognized by “SixAbCon.exe” the tool to setup new devices for Sidexis the service pwd is the first 4 digits of the current date, backwards this is from […]
“WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin and Verizon are experimenting with 5G-enabled drones and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payloads in an effort that could ultimately enhance U.S. military command and control and in-the-field targeting abilities. The two companies on Sept. 28 said […]
update: 2024-04: system running well the system is running very well on GNU Linux Debian 12 + Windows (for gaming) dualboot (first install windows then GNU Linux and let grub handle the boot) the system reached it’s limits with Generation […]
JavaScript screwed up …. AGAIN! (another example for “why is it NOT cool for executable script languages to be allowed to embedd into PDF or any other file format”) used to steal BILLIONS of NF… ucking Ts: https://research.checkpoint.com/2022/how-hackers-make-nfts-disappear/ really should […]
OF COURSE Dennis Ritchie is the father of C. (An appreciation of the late Dennis Ritchie) (src of the src) Ken Thompson: “was writing FORTRAN in TMG” “when it finally got down to 4k, called it B“ “B and C were […]