I believe the risk of running outdated software is super inflated and mediatic, 99% of people would be absolutely fine running a version of Android from 3 years ago or Windows 8.
That’s the same thing people running windows XP on internet were thinking in 2017.
Then WannaCry arrived and they got their data encrypted :)
Perhaps images, video, font etc. rendering could be compromised?
Yes, it already happen in the past. Also the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stack got exploited, like multiple kernel drivers.
But it shouldn’t be a matter of “in the past was X exploited?” but more on having a correct security posture.
Honestly if you are arguing about wasting a “perfectly working phone” you should blame it on the vendor, especially Android devices vendors have this let’s say “defect” of dropping the support after 4/5 years.
Also not going to talk about custom ROMs (with the super rare exclusion of some) managed by god knows who, without any security team behind.
Since even the NFC and Cellular Network stack got vulnerabilities the only way you would consider an old phone “safe” to use is just turning it into the equivalent of a local ARM server.
Also pretty fun seeing the replies in the original post talking about how Google Play store shouldn’t have malware on it.
Exploited in the wild, reported in April, no fix since then?
Edit: looks like it was fixed on the 26th of April, why is tagged as 0day?
Thanks. I have never seen the last thing, what the numbers indicates?
What am I looking at?
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Soon, people will join the strange and buggy world of YouTube alternative frontends
Because I wanted to try if others URI schemas were supported instead of http / https. file:// was a valid one. Don’t worry, the day an attempt of data exfil will happen, you will not see it though your console logs.
For now I am pretty happy with zig, the semicolon mandatory is a bit annoying tho.
Is this, by any chance, originated from the sub called ignore me?
In that case is probably my bad because is set as the image of the channel. I was playing with lemmy in the previous version and forgot about it, sorry.
It will not work since your browser can’t access local file that easily without breaking the sandbox :) also the that alert appears because your browser is trying to load an image with that path, nothing dangerous or remotely exploitable, don’t worry.
Edit: I removed it so you shouldn’t see the alert anymore.
P.S. not, it’s not trying to steal anything, it’s your browser trying to load that file as an image but instead of being let’s say this url: https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/c0e83ceb-b7e5-41b4-9b76-bfd152dd8d00.png (this sub icon) , it’s this one file:///etc/passwd so you browser is doing the request to your own file.
Don’t worry, nothing got compromised.
/cc @shellsharks@infosec.pub> BE
Data mining maps to geolocate stuff
Playing around with the SecureFlag platform, pretty interesting IMHO. Also want to start a new language to stick with, I am pretty undecided between Zig (but is not memory safe by design) elixir (functional programming still isn’t my thing) and nim (can’t handle any more language with indentation-based codeblocks).
Any suggestion is welcome, I will use them to build mostly security tools.
Why Russia thinks they cooperated with Apple when the agencies can just buy 0days from the resellers?
Especially Adblock 😵
Report quality (less FP) compared to semgrep, snyk and sonarcloud but a killer feature for me is that you get the call paths so you can see when and how a vulnerable dependency is called. Pretty useful on big codebases.
I used semgrep in the past, my team is still evaluating which tool for SAST to use as a standard internally but we are mostly oriented on CodeQL
WannaCry targeted everything with SMB exposed, blindly.
Also, you should read more about security through obscurity, the fact that “no one will target you because you are a low-value target” is a false sense of security.