Internet Discoveries between 4 August and 11 August

  • European Citizens’ Initiative
  • x.com
  • Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art found
  • Critical vulnerabilities in 6 AWS services disclosed at Black Hat USA
  • Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
  • ICANN reserves .internal for private use at the DNS level
  • stack-auth/stack
  • New Flaws in Sonos Smart Speakers Allow Hackers to Eavesdrop on Users
  • Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change
  • SSHamble: Open-source security testing of SSH services
  • Approved Resolutions Special Meeting of the ICANN Board 29 July 2024
  • How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang
  • Doom Anthology Revealed - Comes With 6 Games, Steelbook Case, And Replica BFG
  • Open Source Firewall pfsense Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks
  • Critical AWS Vulnerabilities Allow S3 Attack Bonanza
  • Traceeshark: Open-source plugin for Wireshark
  • A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g.
  • Hybrid Public Key Encryption
  • Dear Ai, make me a video about skateboarding with the boys 🛹

Interesting details

European Citizens’ Initiative -

x.com -

Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art found - After 39 years, Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art has been found. And it’s for sale. Details of the reemergence help to shed light on an earlier discovery from about a decade ago. And those details come from the very person who taught Andy Warhol how to use a computer.

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Critical vulnerabilities in 6 AWS services disclosed at Black Hat USA - Critical vulnerabilities in six services under Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have enabled account takeover, remote code execution, AI data manipulation, sensitive information disclosure and more, researchers from Aqua Security disclosed at Black Hat USA on Wednesday.

Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line - Google is done making Chromecasts. In a post on Tuesday, Google says it’s “ending production of Chromecast” after over a decade of selling the streaming dongles.

ICANN reserves .internal for private use at the DNS level - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks.

stack-auth/stack - Stack is an open-source, self-hostable, and highly customizable authentication and user management system. We provide frontend and backend libraries for Next.js, React, and JavaScript. You can set it up in one minute and scale with the project as it grows.

New Flaws in Sonos Smart Speakers Allow Hackers to Eavesdrop on Users - Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users.

Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change - Every been miffed when reading about a major new Ubuntu release only to learn it does not include the latest Linux kernel? Well, that’ll soon be a thing of the past.

SSHamble: Open-source security testing of SSH services - runZero published new research on Secure Shell (SSH) exposures and unveiled a corresponding open-source tool, SSHamble. This tool helps security teams validate SSH implementations by testing for uncommon but dangerous misconfigurations and software bugs.

Approved Resolutions | Special Meeting of the ICANN Board | 29 July 2024 - Logo Board Activities and Meetings View records of actions and decisions made by the ICANN Board from recent activities and meetings. 1. Consent Agenda a.

How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang - Jon DiMaggio used sockpuppet accounts, then his own identity, to infiltrate LockBit and gain the trust of its alleged admin, Dmitry Khoroshev. The U.K.

Doom Anthology Revealed - Comes With 6 Games, Steelbook Case, And Replica BFG - QuakeCon 2024 is this weekend, but longtime Doom fans have already been treated to multiple cool reveals. The original Doom and and its sequel Doom II have received enhancements that are free for current owners (though both games are super cheap right now).

Open Source Firewall pfsense Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks - A popular open-source firewall software pfSense vulnerability has been identified, allowing for remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31814, highlights potential risks in pfSense installations, particularly those using the pfBlockerNG package.

Critical AWS Vulnerabilities Allow S3 Attack Bonanza - Jeffrey Schwartz is a journalist who has covered information security and all forms of business and enterprise IT, including client computing, data center and cloud infrastructure, and application development for more than 30 years. Jeff is a regular contributor to Channel Futures.

Traceeshark: Open-source plugin for Wireshark - Traceeshark is a plugin for Wireshark that enables security practitioners to quickly investigate security incidents.

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g. - Let’s take a brief trip back to our school years and recall some lessons in mathematics and physics. Do you remember what the number π equals? And what is π squared? That’s a strange question too. Of course, it’s 9.87.

Hybrid Public Key Encryption - RFC 9180 HPKE February 2022 Barnes, et al. Informational [Page] Stream: Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) RFC: 9180 Category: Informational Published: February 2022 ISSN: 2070-1721 Authors: R. Barnes Cisco K. Bhargavan Inria B. Lipp Inria C.

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Dear Ai, make me a video about skateboarding with the boys 🛹 -

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