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Defense Watch: NATO Nuclear Mission, GMTI, AV Raise, UKR Aid Pause
NATO Nuclear Mission. While Pantex said in May that it built the first production B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb almost a year early on the heels of the last B61-12 coming […]
Abusing Sudo’s chroot: CVE-2025-32463 Explained
CVE-2025-32463 – Local Privilege Escalation via Sudo’s chroot Option
I recently explored a vulnerability in Sudo that allows unprivileged users to escalate to root by abusing the rarely used -R (chroot) feature and manipulating nsswitch.conf. Tested on Parrot OS, this PoC demonstrates how easy it is to gain root shell access when Sudo
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How to Secure Your Promo Codes Against Cyber Exploits
Promo codes provide a fantastic opportunity to increase customer traffic and generate sales, yet there is a potential risk with them. Promo codes are one of the objects of interest to cybercriminals because they exploit those codes and use them to their personal advantage, which can cost your company its customers. Among the most popular […]
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Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops.
Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, resulting in 20% performance boost.
After discussion between Intel and Canonical’s security teams, we are in agreement that Spectre no longer needs to be mitigated for the GPU at the Compute Runtime level. At this point, Spectre has been mitigated in the kernel, and a clear warning from the Compute Runtime build serves as a notification for those running modified kernels without those patches. For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff…
Trump Administration Lowers Expectations for Trade Deals as Tariff Deadline Approaches
The Administration has already lowered expectations as dealmaking proves challenging.
Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns
Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran.
Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns.
The Making of an American Pope
How a kid from the Midwest became the leader of the Catholic Church
Shuttering of USAID Will Lead to Millions of Deaths Around the World: Studies
Multiple studies have estimated millions will die annually as a result of the Trump Administration’s closure of the foreign-aid agency.
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